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Your daily jolt: Cherokee Co. school board member files complaint with SACS
A Republican rift on the Cherokee County school board just got serious. Kelly Marlow, a tea party enthusiast elected to the board last year, has filed a formal complaint to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, charging that the system’s school superintendent is insubordinate, and that the newly elected ...
Your daily jolt: Paul Broun pulls his support for anti-abortion bill
U.S. Rep. Paul Broun, R-Athens, on Monday night withdrew as co-sponsor of a measure that would ban a woman’s right to abortion after the 20th week of pregnancy, highlighting a split between the foremost national anti-abortion group and its Georgia counterpart. In an attempt to avoid a Todd Akin comparison, ...
Immigration splits GOP's national, House interests
The Republican Party's hope of running stronger presidential races by revamping immigration is about to hit a big hurdle: House Republicans. Many House Republicans are chilly or openly hostile to the bipartisan bill before the Senate, embraced by President Barack Obama. Even substantial changes to the bill may do little ...
3 open Ga. congressional races dominated by GOP
With three U.S. House seats in Georgia wide open in 2014, the chance to go to Washington is already attracting a crowd of several state legislators, a minister, a surgeon, a political novice and an ex-congressman seeking a comeback. So far, not one is a Democrat. So far there are ...
Georgia Weekend Advisory
Editors: Here's a list of Georgia stories expected to move for the weekend of June 15-16. Moving Saturday POLICE-CASH PURSUIT ATLANTA — Alda Gentile was not arrested. She was not charged with a crime. Yet police in Georgia seized $11,530 in cash that Gentile said she had in a car ...
Your daily jolt: This year or next, whites will be in minority among 5-and-unders in U.S.
Unless you live in Cobb County, where math textbooks are Trojan horses bearing tiny loads of sedition, numbers live in a realm beyond politics. And yet numbers can have tremendous political implications, especially in a country where race and voting patterns closely track. Last month, Gov. Nathan Deal warned the ...
Your daily jolt: GSU prof proves 1970 Clean Air Act made Atlanta a wetter place
So now we have a link between metro Atlanta’s two greatest problems – transportation and access to water. From the press release: A Georgia State University researcher is the first to show that the Clean Air Act of 1970 caused a rebound in rainfall for a U.S. city. Jeremy Diem, ...
AP News in Brief at 5:58 a.m. EDT
Report: Government secretly scooping up phone records of millions of Verizon customers WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Security Agency has been collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top secret court order, according to a report in Britain's Guardian newspaper. The order was granted ...
Rubio hears out House conservatives on immigration
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., sought support from House conservatives Wednesday for far-reaching immigration legislation, but many lawmakers emerged from their meeting deeply skeptical of any comprehensive bill with a pathway to citizenship for immigrants here illegally. It underscored the challenges ahead for the immigration bill and for Rubio himself as ...
Immigration and the blessings of an IRS scandal
ATHENS -- On Saturday morning, Sarah Robinson gave the breakfast prayer that opened the second day of the state GOP convention. Among many other things, she asked God to protect us from “the wickedness of the IRS.” But in point of fact, many a quiet word of thanks was uttered ...
Slew of wide open races animate Georgia GOP convention
Beware of flying elbows this weekend in Athens, as the annual Georgia GOP convention will feature candidates and their backers jockeying for position in a cavalcade of wide-open races across the state. The man who started the dominoes is U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, who will not run again in 2014. ...
Homeland Security ups number of illegal immigrants ‘re-detained’
There are times when Washington resembles nothing so much as a bad, but unfinished divorce. The combatants will talk to anyone but each other. On March 7, five Republican members of Congress from Georgia – Doug Collins of Gainesville, Lynn Westmoreland of Coweta County, Tom Graves of Ranger, Phil Gingrey ...
John Barrow decides not to look back
When at the wheel of a car, it is entirely possible that John Barrow doesn’t bother to use the rear-view mirror. The 57-year-old Augusta congressman certainly tried his best not to look backwards on Wednesday. Twenty-four hours earlier, he’d shocked Georgia Democrats with his announcement that he would pass on ...
Democrats set out to find another recruit after Barrow’s decision
For months, many Georgia Democrats have believed their best shot at taking an open U.S. Senate seat was Rep. John Barrow, the battle-tested campaign veteran who has the conservative profile that could have given him a statewide shot. But Barrow ended months of speculation Tuesday when he announced he would ...
Your daily jolt: Common Core, the Senate race, and how to talk to black people
The Saturday morning of the Cobb County GOP was a many-layered thing. The big draw was state School Superintendent John Barge, who was there to head off a Republican grass roots revolt over something called Common Core – an attempt to create national curriculum standards for K-12 students. Over the ...
The impact Mark Sanford's fate may have in Georgia
Charleston, S.C. -- As Election Day has crept ever closer, the pile of humiliations heaped upon Mark Sanford has grown deeper and deeper. Pornographer Larry Flynt has “endorsed” him as a sexual hero. A website that advertises itself as a discrete dating service for adulterers has put the former South ...
Your daily jolt: Jack Kingston promises no 'laugh lines for Jay Leno'
U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston, concluding a series of appearances announcing his entry into the U.S. Senate race, was looser – and at his most candid – when he appeared before the home folks in Savannah on Thursday. From Russ Bynum and the Associated Press: "We need common sense government," Rep. ...
Your daily jolt: Nikki Haley stands up -- silently -- for Mark Sanford
Charleston, S.C. – South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley appeared at a high end fundraiser with predecessor Mark Sanford, in an attempt to give a boost to his shaky bid to return to Congress. But she didn’t want to talk about her last-minute assistance. From this morning’s Post and Courier: Haley ...
Kingston’s in the Senate race, and he won’t be outflanked
U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston has a message for his conservative challengers for an open Senate seat: He won’t be outflanked on the right. In announcing Wednesday that he’s joining the race for retiring U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss’ seat, the Savannah Republican told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he’s a workhorse who ...
Your daily jolt: 'Argentina' and 'Nancy Pelosi' become S.C. shorthand
Charleston, S.C. – The District 1 congressional race between Elizabeth Colbert Busch and former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has reached a fever pitch, with auxiliary armies on both sides dipping in. House Majority PAC, a Democratic super-fund, on Tuesday came out with a new TV ad to make sure ...
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