This week’s Courier Herald column: With the calendar now having turned to December, we’re roughly half way between last month’s election and next month’s “governing”. An Inauguration is on tap for Friday, January 20th. Congress and the Georgia legislature will begin legislative duties a couple of weeks earlier. While the professional political class and most
With the nomination of Rep. Tom Price as Secretary of Health and Human Services, potential candidates are already maneuvering to fill his seat. While phone calls are being made and rumors are being launched, no one is yet sure when this special election sprint will end. Determining this should be easy: the governor determines an election date
With a special election looming to fill the soon to be vacated seat of Congressman Tom Price, there’s a lot of confusion and social media discussion on Georgia’s “Resign To Run” law. Let’s clear the first part of the confusion up. It’s more than a law. It’s in the Georgia Constitution. Article II, Section 2,
We have our first official candidate to replace 6th District Congressman Tom Price, who will leave his North Atlanta district to take the job of Health and Human Services Secretary in the Trump Administration. And, he’s a Libertarian. Chase Oliver announced for the seat in a Facebook past Tuesday night. I am running for several
A couple of weeks ago, Cody Hall shared a list of the potential candidates that may line up to replace Congressman Tom Price should he be tapped for a Trump Administration post (or announce that he was running for Governor). Well, this morning’s announcement has turned this from a theoretical exercise into one that is
Not long after the news began to spread Monday evening that 6th District Rep. Tom Price was going to be President Elect Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services, speculation began over whether there would be an opportunity for Democrats to gain another seat. After all, Trump had lost Cobb County.
Congressman Tom Price has officially been tapped to take the helm of Health and Human Services. The doctor turned Congressman who authored the Republicans’ most comprehensive alternative to Obamacare will now be in charge of overseeing the program and/or its replacement. Congressman Price’s statement on his nomination is as follows: “It is an honor to
This week’s Courier Herald column: Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve taken a look at the national and partisan implications of the surprising win for Donald Trump. Today we’re going to focus on what this means for Georgia. Access is power in Washington. Several prominent Georgia Democrats are now rethinking their future, as their
As Ed posted earlier, Politico is reporting that 6th District Congressman Tom Price is in the running to be president-elect Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services. Local rumors also have him as a front runner to be the Office of Management and Budget Director. As many Americans are now coming to terms with, it
This week’s Courier Herald column: This week I opened a letter from State Farm that I thought was junk mail. Instead, I learned that my agent and friend Mickey Littlefield died a couple of weeks ago. The letter was one of transition. I first met Mickey when I moved back to Fayette County and became
