MAGA of course meaning: Making Atlanta Greaterthanitalreadyiswhichisalreadyperfect At last. April 28 is also the date President Trump will address the NRA Annual Meetings, taking place at the Georgia World Congress Center. The NRA tweeted the news on Friday. It will be the first time Trump qua President will visit the Peach State. President Trump will
Just kidding, we all know that’s impossible. Instead, President Trump relied on his usual bombastic and semi-conspiratorial scolding (AKA: his most presidential sounding voice) to predict Republicans will win on Tuesday. Anyone want to hazard a guess if he even knows who the Republicans are? Methinks he has no clue. The recent Kansas election (Congress) was
Since former state Senator Judson Hill resigned his1 seat when he qualified to run for Congress, Senate District 32 seat needs to be filled with a special election. While this race hasn’t drawn the media attention of the CD6 scrum, the special election for State Senate 32 is special in its own way2. Allegations bubbled that one candidate,
I posted an AJC article earlier today about former Governor Sonny Perdue’s confirmation vote getting delayed. Word has it that a floor vote has been scheduled in the Senate for April 24th. I’m sure the former Governor is probably saying “Finally!” It will also be interesting to see how many Democrats will vote “no” on
Former State Representative Doug McKillip is planning to take his former seat back. Our friend Tim Bryant of Athens’ WGAU tweets the following: BREAKING: former state Rep Doug McKillip to challenge Rep Regina Quick in House District 117. #gapol #gagop — Tim Bryant (@timbonole) April 5, 2017 Quick unseated McKillip in 2012 by less than
It’s been 11 weeks since President Donald Trump nominated former Governor Sonny Perdue to lead the federal Agriculture Department. As the AJC points out in today’s article, the former Governor was the last nominee appointed to fill Trump’s cabinet. Delays, including a paperwork mishap, have pushed back the confirmation vote by the US Senate, and
Senator Michael Williams (R-Cumming) was one of the, if not *the*, first elected officials to hitch his wagon to the #TrumpTrain. His loyalty hasn’t earned him a cabinet position, but perhaps he’s banking that the #TrumpTrain will have a stop somewhere over on West Paces Ferry Road. Earlier this week, Mike Hassinger mentioned how Duane
Today is the day when the counties who didn’t host their county conventions earlier to hold them. With the train wreck change in leadership in the Cobb County GOP last weekend, we’ll see what today holds. To those who will be attending today’s precinct mass meetings (those under 80K, like my home county of Walker,
As I mentioned in a previous post, “a few” counties were holding their county conventions this past Saturday. Among those were Cobb and Bulloch Counties who saw respective conventions change out the leadership. Former 11th District GOP Chairman Jason Shepherd won his challenge against incumbent Cobb GOP Chairwoman Rose Wing who beat Shepherd in 2015
It’s been speculated that Secretary of State Brian Kemp will be a GOP contender for Governor in 2018. Today, the AJC reports that an official with direct knowledge of the matter says that Secretary Kemp will run. Although it’s not “official” yet and has declined to comment on it, Secretary Kemp has been dropping hints
