April 6, 2021 12:16 PM
Midday Reads for Tuesday, April 6
Hello there! It’s probably best that I was delayed in writing this post this morning since had I not waited, I could not share this breaking #gapol news: Scorpion Stings Frog!
- State Representative Erick Allen is running for Lieutenant Governor! I admit, I’m awfully fond of my fellow Cobb County representative. You know who else is fond of Rep. Allen? Sarah Riggs Amico, who ran for LG in 2018: she’s chairing his campaign.
- State Representative William Boddie, who is a previous House Democratic Caucus Whip, announced that he is running for Labor Commissioner. (I’m fond of him, too!)
- While SB 202 prohibits third parties from giving grants directly to county boards of election, it won’t keep companies like Patagonia from giving $1 million to voting rights groups in Georgia.
- If you are still wondering what SB 202 actually does (and does not) do, the NYTimes has a line-by-line analysis that is helpful – even for those who have Read The BillTM – to understand what many of the sections in SB 202 actually mean.
- Another week, another toppled crane in Atlanta.
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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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Those Georgia state senators do love them some Georgia Power, don’t they?
“Coal ash: A measure that would have required Georgia Power and other utilities to monitor toxic coal ash pits for at least five decades stalled in a Senate committee.
The proposal found broad support in the House last month, even as environmentalists and residents near the ponds made the case for the coal ash waste to be moved to lined landfills.
Georgia Power plans to close and cap coal ash storage at plants McDonough, Scherer, Wansley, Yates and Hammond. All said, the public utility is in the process of closing 29 coal ash sites across the state, with 10 of them left enclosed in unlined pits.
Jennette Gayer, director of Environment Georgia and chair of the Georgia Water Coalition’s coal ash committee, lamented the lack of progress this session.
“Toxic coal ash is sitting in groundwater around the state and yet the Georgia legislature failed to pass legislation addressing this problem,” Gayer said in a statement Thursday. “To make matters worse, Georgia Power ratepayers are on the hook for a clean-up that will not solve our coal ash problems and protect Georgia’s waterways.”
The bill is in the Senate Natural Resources Committee, where it remains alive for next year. Identical bills in both chambers that would have required coal ash to be stored in lined landfills and fully removed when in contact with groundwater did not receive hearings.”
https://georgiarecorder.com/2021/04/01/lawmakers-embrace-pecans-skip-sports-bets-in-2021s-masked-session/
Netanyahu is asked to form a new government despite facing trial for corruption, Putin aims to be president for life, and Trump tosses red meat to the rubes. Some things don’t change.
Georgia Democrats behaved very badly in the recent debate over SB 202.
“What does all this say about the Democrats? They do not seem to be interested in the orderly process of running the state. The Democrats think it is proper to engage in juvenile confrontations. The Democrats do not appear to be capable of governing the state, if they should be elected to power.”
Oh, do you mean like ignoring the reality of election results and invading the US Capitol?
Or do you mean like the governor decided against all sound advice to let folks not wear masks and opening up too quickly? Which resulted in Georgia having the sixth highest rate of Corona infections in the USA? (The top five had much higher populations).
From the let’s have our cake and eat it too department:
“McConnell says it’s fine for big corporations to make political donations but ‘stupid’ for them to weigh in on big issues..
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday that he supports big corporations making political donations but warned that they should not take sides on “incendiary” issues, such as Georgia’s new voting law.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/04/06/joe-biden-live-updates/#link-3XA4EEMEVFEO3EAGSMA4LM4PQY
Republicans are more flighty than a 12 year old in puberty!