No, I’m not going to try to run down every contested Georgia House race. It’s difficult enough to even try to pretend from Atlanta I have a true understanding of far flung races. By the time you divide Georgia into 180 equal pieces “state” politics becomes quite local. As such, this is just a preview
It’s a relatively active campaign year for Georgia’s Republican Senate caucus. If my quick scan of the Secretary of State’s website is correct, there are 29 Senate races with an uncontested GOP candidate, three open competitive races, and NINE! with incumbents facing a primary challenge. That’s not quite a quarter of the caucus facing primary
I’m out of the “pundit” business. I don’t do predictions. If most pundits were honest, they would admit that the prediction/punditry game is mostly a parlor game for entertainment purposes to fill time while we wait on election results. Over the last week the constant question I’ve been asked is “Are we expecting any surprises?”.
This was a column of mine originally published on 7/31/12. There’s probably a few of you that have excess energy and can’t sleep about now…or about 5am. Maybe it will help. There’s a time honored tradition for those who work on campaigns. The night before the election, entrances to polling places (always 150 feet from
I’m writing about this race instead of some others that I can vote for specifically because it is local. I’ve long since advocated that people need to spend more time looking at those who govern us at the State and Local levels, and less about our President. It’s the State and Local elected officials that
This week’s Courier Herald column: Last week I attended the event to launch the Georgia Consortium of Advanced Technical Training that I previewed in my prior column. The program is a pilot that will allow high school students to participate in a three-year apprenticeship program that will have not only graduating on time with a
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed put out the “help wanted” sign Friday evening, letting two very high profile appointees go. Hartsfield Jackson Airport General Manager Miguel Southwell was dismissed. Per Atlanta’s Fox5 news Mayor Reed released the following statement: “I want to thank Mr. Southwell for his service to the City of Atlanta and the travelers
The AJC’s Aaron Sheinin, working on his birthday (happy birthday old man), brings us an update in the primary turned potential potential civil suit between Congressman/defendant Barry Loudermilk and challenger/plaintiff Daniel Cowan. Follow this link to the AJC for visual representation of the mailers and responses discussed below. Long and short of this: Team Loudermilk
Aaron Barlow, candidate for State Senate in North Fulton and Cherokee Counties, has made most of his campaign feeding off negatives for those that have actively tried to solve Georgia’s and North Metro Atlanta’s congestion problems. He even had a mailer/flyer that was criticizing Brandon Beach’s sponsorship of TSPLOST on Facebook (despite the fact that
This evening the National Federation of Independent Businesses and Columbus’ WRBL have teamed up to bring an issues focused debate among candidates competing for the GOP nomination for Georgia’s 3rd Congressional District. We’re attempting to embed the livestream from WRBL below, or you can watch the debate by following this link. The debate will begin
