It’s the first day of qualifying for the special election to see who will represent citizens of Georgia’s 54th state senate district after Charlie Bethel trades his “Senator” title for “Judge”. Former Whitfield County Republican Party Chairman Chuck Payne hit the ground running by being the first to qualify this morning. He will face two
President-elect Donald Trump is quickly building his administration over the next couple of months. A lot of names have been floated as potential picks. Recently, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus has been named as Trump’s chief-of-staff. That will leave an opening for the Republican Party’s top leadership position (it’s also a position where GAGOP National Committeeman
The special election to fill Senator Charlie Bethel’s soon-to-be-vacated seat in Senate District 54 has been set by Secretary of State Brian Kemp’s office. Election day will be on December 13th with a run-off, if needed, being held on January 10, 2017. Qualifying will be today and tomorrow from 8a until 5p and Thursday from
Folks are starting to jump into the race to succeed Senator Charlie Bethel, who will be filling a vacancy on the state Court of Appeals on January 1st. The election could possibly be held as early as December 13th. Chuck Payne, former Whitfield County Republican Party chairman, made his announcement on Facebook this morning: Because the
Congressman Doug Collins (R-GA-09) has thrown his hat into the ring to be the next vice-chairman of the House Republican Caucus. Current Vice-Chairwoman Lynn Jenkins announced her intention to not run again and focus more on her policy initiatives: repealing Obamacare and tax reform. Both of which have been made a priority of President-elect Donald
Just about every election cycle, you hear about a race coming down to just a handful of votes. This election cycle, the tax commissioner race is such a race. Rickey Hughes, the Republican challenger, lost on Election night to Democrat Joy Cooper Hamilton by 8 votes. (Emphasis added) The Chattooga County Republican Party, under the
State Senator Charlie Bethel (R-SD54) received an appointment to the Georgia Court of Appeals by Governor Nathan Deal today effective January 1, 2017. Many congratulations to the Senator on his appointment. I know he’ll do well. Senator Bethel, who was also on the short list to be appointed to the Georgia Supreme Court, did not
A candidate must get close to desperation when resorting to levying personal attacks on Facebook against an opponent. That’s what is occurring here in Walker County with our incumbent sole Commissioner Bebe Heiskell. I was sent a screenshot where Commissioner Heiskell accused Republican challenger Shannon Whitfield that he was given bad numbers, was deceiving people
Jessica is out husband shopping on a boat, hunting for a private island to turn into the #LastBastionofLibertyonEarth, or both. I forget. Anyway, I’m here to fill in for her today. Here’s what you need to know. Here: IT JOBS! Anthem is going to invest $20 million to create around 2000 IT jobs and lease
Parts of the Internet “broke” last Friday morning. No, not because Kim Kardashian showed her rear end again. The break was due to a large distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) on a large domain name server (DNS) provider. *man in the back row raises his hand* “What? I don’t understand your technical mumbo jumbo
