On Thursday, The AJC’s Watchdog reporter, Chris Joyner, published a story exposing some details about a political action committee affiliated with Georgia House Speaker David Ralston named the “Ralston Conservative Leadership Fund.” The fund is described as “secretive” in the story, which kind of surprised me, since I knew such a fund existed, even if
U.S. Senators Johnny Isakson (R-GA) and David Perdue (R-GA), joined by U.S. Representatives Buddy Carter (R-GA-01), Sanford Bishop (D-GA-02), Hank Johnson (D-GA-04), Austin Scott (R-GA-08), and Tom Graves (R-GA-14), wrote a letter to Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James and Air Force Chief of Staff General Mark Welsh urging them to consider locating new
The Fannin County Board of Education will meet tonight, and officials expect to hear from residents about a potential policy dealing with the use of bathrooms by transgender students. According to a story in FetchYourNews, the issue over bathroom use is the result of a decision by a federal appeals court in Virginia that Title
If you’re running for political office, heaven help you if you imply you know what you’re doing. Voters cry for “outsiders,” fearing with some reason that political office, like the One Ring, corrupts those who wield it. Long spells in office can contribute to indolence, cynicism, or arrogance; then again, so can rotten personalities. Voters
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about the fallacy of electing an outsider. Unfortunately I chose to use Senator David Perdue as an example of a business person and outsider who promised change if elected and whom, I proposed, had produced little meaningful legislation in his first 16 months. Well as so
According to the Washington Post, Georgia native Richard McDaniel has just been named as Secretary Clinton’s Political Director for the upcoming D.C. Primary which will take place on June 14th. The hiring of McDaniel is a sign that Clinton looks to run the numbers up in the African American community, as she did in the
This week’s Courier Herald column: Last week was a rough one for many longtime Georgia Republicans. Ted Cruz suspended his quest to be the Republican nominee for President, all but ensuring Donald Trump will arrive in Cleveland with well more than the 1,237 votes needed for nomination. Governor Nathan Deal vetoed a “campus carry” bill
Over the weekend, Sarah Palin announced that she would be campaigning for Paul Ryan’s opponent, Paul Nehlen, in the upcoming Wisconsin GOP Primary election. “His political career is over but for a miracle because he has so disrespected the will of the people, and as the leader of the GOP, the convention, certainly, he is
Hi, Ron I was a little surprised to see your Facebook post last night, and frankly, I was a bit upset. I figured I’d respond this morning after I had a chance to think things through, but I see you’ve blocked me, so I thought I would respond here. We go back a ways in
The following is a guest post that originally appeared on the Facebook page of its author, Georgia Young Republicans Chairman Robert Lee, and is reposted here with his permission: Just some thoughts from someone in the Oregon Trail generation (part millennial, part GenX) about what my party, which I’ve always belonged to as long as
