February 23, 2021 6:00 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, February 23
Good morning! Today is Day 21 of the 2021 Legislative Session.
- Findings in a newly-published CDC report from a study in Marietta City Schools support prioritizing teacher vaccinations. You can read the full report here.
- The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the Water Wars case yesterday; a ruling is expected this summer.
- The Georgia House Higher Education Committee debated the merits of in-state tuition for DACA students in Georgia.
- Atlanta activist and rapper Killer Mike is not amused that his barbershop location in South Fulton was hit by gunfire; thankfully, the culprits could “not hit the side of a barn” with their weapons.
- The Paulding County DA was arrested yesterday on four felony charges.
- A dormant pecan farm in south Atlanta is now home to America’s largest free food forest.
- The Georgia Department of Community Affairs has $522M in federal housing and rental assistance aid that it will soon start distributing.
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Teri
Teri Anulewicz is a Democrat who represents House District 42 in the Georgia General Assembly. She previously spent nearly a decade on the Smyrna City Council. A native New Orleanian and quasi-Texan, Teri graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1998. She's been a front page contributor since 2015, and she compiles each Tuesday's Morning Reads.
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Georgia poultry producers must be smiling as Taco Bell joins battle in the ongoing fast food chicken sandwich wars.
Their effort is described as “an all-white piece of chicken that’s marinated in jalapeno buttermilk and then fried with a tortilla chip coating. It’s served in a “puffy bread” that’s shaped like a taco and topped with chipotle sauce.”
If that sounds like your kind of bird, you’ll have to go to Nashville or Charlotte for now.
Picture at link. Chipotle sauce looks suspiciously like melted velveeta.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/22/business/taco-bell-crispy-chicken-sandwich-taco/index.html
Two metro Atlanta counties are seeking attorneys fees from former President Donald Trump and Georgia Republican Party Chairman David Shafer in a lawsuit that sought to overturn the presidential election in Georgia.
Trump and Shafer filed the lawsuit in December in Fulton County Superior Court. It was part of a wave of election litigation that has continued long after Joe Biden was sworn in as president.
Among other things, the lawsuit said tens of thousands of illegal voters cast ballots in the November election — claims that election experts said were “highly inaccurate” and “worthless.” Trump later withdrew the lawsuit on the eve of a court hearing.
Now Cobb and DeKalb counties say the former president and Shafer should pay their legal bills. In a brief filed Monday, Cobb says it spent $10,875 on the “meritless and legally deficient petition.” DeKalb says it spent $6,105.
“Given the number of failed lawsuits filed by the former president and his campaign, petitioners apparently believed that they could file their baseless and legally deficient actions with impunity, with no regard for the costs extracted from the taxpayers’ coffers or the consequences to the democratic foundations of our country,” Cobb’s brief said.
Shafer referred a request for comment to his attorney in the case. The attorney, Ray Smith, could not immediately be reached for comment.
https://www.ajc.com/politics/election/cobb-dekalb-want-attorneys-fees-for-meritless-trump-lawsuit/56XP3IZCQBHUDMEU2RYN2CKOAU/
Could we Georgians file a class action lawsuit as well? $10 for each voter who decided on Biden.