Rep. Vernon Jones (D-Slimeball) has carried a cloud of controversy over Georgia politics for 20 years with no signs of letting up. Today he endorsed President Trump (R-Slimeball) perhaps for all their similarities: ALLEGED sexual assault, being unfit for public office, rampant attention whoring.. I mean, you name it and they’re peas in a pod!
It’s hard to not feel sympathy for Senator Loeffler after reading her woe-is-me op-ed in The Wall Street Journal. Still, it’s a good thing she’s finally doing what the honorable Senator should have done four months ago by divesting herself from her stock holdings. I mean, it isn’t as if elected officials should go above
I suppose the real news here is Congressman John Lewis saying Joe Biden should pick a woman of color as his runningmate. It would be good to have a woman of color. It would be good to have a woman. It would be good to have a woman look like the rest of America —
Senators Perdue and Loeffler sent a press release earlier today announcing an additional $9.2 million in federal funding to fight COVID-19 in Georgia. The monies are part of the Phase One funding package and will go toward local and state health authorities’ efforts. The full release is below: Perdue, Loeffler Announce Another $9.2 Million For
It’s not often we get a semi-apocalyptic statement from a mayor in response to a governor’s mandate but here we are. Tybee Island Mayor Shirley Sessions is basically the anti-Mayor Vaughn. She couldn’t have been less diplomatic to the governor and told everyone not to visit saying: Tybee City Council and I are devastated by
Fresh off his king-making endorsement in the Democratic Presidential Primary, Jim Clyburn is setting his sights on Georgia. In last weekend’s “Lunch with the FT”, Clyburn made clear what he’s looking for from Joe Biden’s VP nod: an African-American woman. (The Financial Times is so exceedingly good you should all subscribe to it–and you’ve got
An administrative order on the Fulton County Board of Health website says anyone who violates the county’s shelter-in-place order could go to jail for a year. The order was passed on March 31 with the usual exceptions that, candidly, probably make all of this useless. However, the notice says any violation of this order is
The AJC reports: the family of the late Rev. Joseph Lowery will hold a funeral this week, with a public service that could coincide with his Oct. 6 birthday. Cheryl Lowery, the executive director of the Joseph and Evelyn Lowery Institute told the paper: We know that our country and our world is going to
Here’s a temporary reprieve from Coronapol: the Census Bureau released data on the fastest-growing counties and cities of the last decade. No Georgia counties were in the top-10 fastest-growing counties. Atlanta is still the ninth-most-populous city with 6,020,364 residents as of July 1, 2019. That’s up from 5,286,718 on April 1, 2010. The extra 733,466
This is only the start. This week’s unemployment numbers are shocking. And it’s only the start. State Labor Commissioner Mark Butler told Fox 5 Atlanta that Georgians should brace themselves for far worse. Butler says traffic on the Labor Department web site, where you can file your unemployment claim, has skyrocketed — 425,000 web site
