March 2, 2021 9:50 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, March 2
Good morning! Yesterday was Day 25 of the 2021 Legislative Session. To prepare for the run-up to Crossover Day, which is Monday, March 8, today and Thursday are Committee Days. You can watch all the fun here. Yesterday, the House passed what I consider to be a pretty onerous and deeply flawed election bill, and you can hear me talk about it here.
Meanwhile…
- Here are more details on that omnibus election bill.
- …Meanwhile, Congressional Dems are trying to stave off much of what Georgia GOPers are trying to do.
- …While over in Fulton County, The Call Heard ‘Round The World is the focus of a grand jury inquiry.
- Oh, and there’s still a pandemic. Georgia teachers can get vaccinated starting on March 8, but many aren’t waiting and are visiting Tennessee and Alabama for their vaccines.
- Down in the Okefenokee, opponents to a proposed mineral mine hope to find sympathetic ears in the Biden administration.
- And on the coast, the Golden Ray dismemberment continues.
- March is Women’s History Month! Here are some sights in Atlanta that are named for women (including Atlanta’s two historically women’s colleges).
- …and here are profiled of several remarkable women making a difference in Middle Georgia.
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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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Your tax dollars at work…
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In 2018, Stacey Abrams used “voter suppression” as her centerpiece issue, while running for governor. This had the effect of making voting access a political football. Voting access became a partisan issue. It was no longer possible to believe anything you hear about it, especially from Stacey Abrams or Donald J. Trump.
There is a bill before the legislature now about voting access. This video goes into detail about what the proposed law would do. Rhetoric about “voter suppression,” and trash talking republican legistors, only serves to promote cynicism about this legislation. HB 531 is a very bad piece of legislation, and should be defeated.
You think Stacey Abrams is responsible for making voting access a political football?
(See ,e.g., U.S. Constitution). Now, if you were to say that she raised the level of the game, so that it was a more competitive game, instead of the more historically lopsided partisan displays we’ve seen, that would be an improvement to your statement.