July 15, 2022 11:13 AM
Mid-Morning Reads for Friday, July 15, 2022
- Too bad none of that money came from Georgians.
- We are all special in our own way.
- The sadness deepens.
- X-wing they are not, but closer they are.
- Ice cream that doesn’t melt.
- If you’re going to compare people to tacos, at least have the courtesy to allow them to choose the type of taco they want to be.
- Remember when Ronnie said: “We’re from the government and we’re here to help.”? Lock the door and throw away the key.
- Oh, how things have changed.
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Ginny
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Reality is too tough for some people. I’m not saddened at all to learn that Monticello guides point out that Jefferson employed hundreds of slaves. Would it be better to think they were voluntary workers who lived in “Servant Quarters”?
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/right-wing-media-freak-out-over-monticello-teaching-visitors-thomas-jefferson-enslaved
I applaud your efforts to track out of state donations to Georgia Dems and await your corresponding post on Rep donations. (Pro tip: you probably won’t find the info on Fox.)
We should talk about abortion. I’m a firm believer that our leaders’ actions say more about their followers than about themselves.
Everything about the 10 yo rape victim in Ohio has been an atrocity, beginning with the violence committed against a child but matched by the shameless denials of the rape and outright lies about what Ohio’s and Indiana’s laws require as elected officials and hired media guns vied to take the most cynical and extreme positions.
But this story yesterday where an anti-abortion zealot said in effect that abortion isn’t abortion if there’s a chance it will make her supporters look less crazy might stand as the biggest example of moral idiocy so far.
https://news.yahoo.com/anti-abortion-activist-claims-10-175854084.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
On second thought, I may be selling Catherine Glenn Foster, president of the Americans United for Life campaign group, short on the idiot scale. Further research shows that back in May in front of Congress (they sure need a wider circle of witnesses) claimed DC authorities are burning aborted fetuses for electricity.
https://news.yahoo.com/gop-anti-abortion-witness-baselessly-134721676.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
Unfortunately, there are organizations that are contemporaneously relying on the bogeymen of Soros and Hollywood personalities. I don’t know if the below story was linked here already or not, but I decided to post a link that did not include the antisemitic graphics of the flyers. But there were at least a couple sets of flyers distributed, focused variously on campaign donors, nonprofits, movies and media, especially Disney, etc. So Soros and Spielberg were headliners on those flyers too.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/antisemitic-flyers-left-at-homes-in-south-florida/ar-AAZ0vLZ
Not to say the campaign finance article was unfair- all partisans will highlight the weakness of the others’ campaigns, and simultaneously bury their own issues, but the Fox article also mentions at least another Jewish donor, I believe- and they should be careful not to be in sync with the white supremacists’ steps.
It is sad when ppl hypocritically choose which hypocrisies are worth attention.
That piece (PJ media): OK, I got your grievance. Too much on the bad history for you to enjoy your idyllic versions of storylands without being triggered– even tho that aspect of history has been heretofore egregiously neglected, and maybe the intensity is just a piece of history catching up to the present…)
either way, the piece soon devolves into the accusation that all liberals love tyrants? so weird, bc it doesn’t make any sense whatsoever (although who needs to make sense in order to provoke and then manipulate ppl’s hatred?) but the argument is like “the liberals hate slavery bc they love tyrants”. That’s obv the ‘ole flip-flop script technique, with the usual dashes of denial and projection.
But so much unncssry hate it’s sickening.
I ‘m posting this list of Georgians who signed bogus documents claiming that Donald Trump won the 2020 election because I think it’s important to know their names and something about them, and because I can’t find a current listing.
I don’t have anything to say about the investigation of the special grand jury convened by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. I don’t know if the people who signed were insurrectionists, true believers in election fraud, good party soldiers, dupes, or dopes, and I don’t really care.
I have cut some of the text that doesn’t focus on identification, indicated by .
16 signed from Georgia:
Joseph Brannan: Brannan is treasurer of the Georgia Republican Party, a media executive, and a leader in the Muscogee County party.
James “Ken” Carroll: Carroll is assistant secretary for the Georgia Republican Party.
Vikki Townsend Consiglio: Consiglio is assistant treasurer for the Georgia Republican Party and is on the board of governors for the Georgia Republican Foundation.
Carolyn Hall Fisher: Fisher was until recently the first vice chairman for the Georgia Republican Party.
Burt Jones: Jones has been a member of the Georgia state Senate since 2013, representing the 25th District. He is the GOP nominee for lieutenant governor and is endorsed by Trump.
Gloria Kay Godwin: Godwin is a local Republican Party leader in Blackshear and the co-founder of the grassroots group Georgia Conservatives in Action
David G. Hanna: Hanna was CEO and co-founder of Atlanticus Holdings Corporation, an Atlanta-based financial holding company
Mark W. Hennessy: Hennessy is the CEO of several car dealerships around the Atlanta area.
Mark Amick: Amick is on the board of governors for the Georgia Republican Foundation.
John Downey: Downey was a House district chair for the Cobb County Republican Party.
Cathleen Alston Latham: Latham is a teacher with the Georgia Virtual School, according to her LinkedIn profile.
Daryl Moody: Moody is a GOP donor who is currently the chairman of the Georgia Republican Foundation.
Brad Carver: A lawyer focused on energy, utilities, environmental and local government law, Carver is a member of the Republican National Lawyers Association. Carver represents clients before the Georgia Public Service Commission in the Georgia General Assembly.
David Shafer*: Shafer is chairman of the state GOP and a Georgia state senator from 2003 to 2019 who was state Senate president pro tempore for many of those years.
Shawn Still*: Still is the GOP nominee for Georgia state Senate to represent District 48. He is the president of Olympic Pool Plastering & Shotcrete and has served as chairman of the Georgia Republican Party Finance Committee and on the executive committee for the Georgia GOP.
C.B. Yadav: A small business owner in Camden County, Yadav is a member of the Georgians First Commission
Slated to sign but refused:
John A. Isakson: Isakson is the chief financial officer for Preferred Apartment Communities. His father, Johnny Isakson, served as a U.S. senator from Georgia from 2005 to 2019 and represented Georgia’s 6th Congressional District in the U.S. House from 1999 to 2005.
Patrick Gartland: Gartland has served as the Cobb County Republican Party’s representative on the board of election.
CJ Pearson: A conservative activist, political adviser and commentator on cable news, Pearson has served as the executive director of Young Georgians in Government and executive director of Teens for Trump.
Susan Holmes: A member of the Georgia House of Representatives from the 129th District, Holmes has also served as mayor of Monticello for 12 years.
Last night’s story on indictments:
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-supporters-tapped-as-alternate-electors-could-face-criminal-charges-2022-7
List of alternate elector slates by state:
https://georgiarecorder.com/2022/06/29/updated-trumps-fake-electors-heres-the-full-list/
“snip” didn’t resolve because I typed it between < and >. Just know that some of the signers’ descriptions have been amended.