Ron Roberts

Hilarious is the controversy surrounding ⁠Gavin Newsom’s Atlanta book tour stop with Mayor Andre Dickens⁠; it was conservatives accusing him of making a veiled racist dig in a comment on relatability (via his marginal SAT score) with an audience MAGA assumed "Atlanta + black mayor hosting = must be a black audience" (their own shortsighted stereotyping). Turns out the audience was mostly white - oh and Gavin was speaking of […]

⁠Keisha Lance Bottoms ⁠joined Ron for a look back at her mayoral era in Atlanta and to make her sales pitch to skeptical Georgia voters ahead of the gubernatorial election in November. Speaking on the race,⁠ a curious endorsement⁠ bubbled up, last week, drawing ⁠notable scrutiny⁠ among many black Georgia voters. Trump got⁠ whacked by the Supreme Court⁠ Friday, but justices may have actually been trying to bail out his […]

Ron caught up with Democratic gubernatorial candidate ⁠Mike Thurmond ⁠for a conversation encompassing the state of the seven-candidate race, what led him to decide to come back into the political arena after term-limiting out as Dekalb CEO, how his role in the "Cop City" squabble might relate to his governing Georgia in Trump's last two years and more. In hour two, Democratic congressional candidate ⁠Shawn Harris⁠ checked in to discuss […]

PLUS: How'd an innocuous Social Circle warehouse somehow improve in value by $100 million in just two years for DHS to have paid that much more for it? Prior to his visit to Rome, GA, today, Donald Trump thought it fitting to take swipes at Atlanta over his perception of the city's crime woes (his Mar A Lago hometown with a higher crime rate per capita, mind you ...) but […]

PLUS: more on the deadly ICE chase in Chatham & how one conspiracy theorist & his debunked claims seem central to the Fulton / FBI raid Ron caught up with Wendy Davis, former Rome city commissioner, Congressional candidate and co-host of ⁠Kudzu Vine⁠, for a straightforward look at polling throughout the country in red districts, why Democrats feel more confident about Sen. Jon Ossoff’s 2026 race, and how affordability and […]

Lo and behold, bipartisan voices are urging Trump-led conspiracy theorists to "move on." Both ⁠former Governor Roy Barnes (D) and former Senator Saxby Chambliss (R) took to the AJC's Politically Georgia podcast ⁠to rail against relitigating the 2020 election, especially after the FBI’s seizure of Fulton County ballots. Ron followed that up, conversing with election data consultant Michael Handelman of ⁠Civic Forge Solutions⁠ , whose ⁠AJC op/ed touched on conspiracy […]

PLUS: a SE Georgia community wants nowhere near a nickel refinery, McBath brilliantly plays Pam Bondi & GA Repub infighting ratchets up In Northwest Georgia, Republican ⁠Rep. Kasey Carpenter is reviving legislation that would shield carpet manufacturers from PFAS “forever chemical” lawsuits⁠, even though investigations have found ⁠contamination in local water and communities.⁠ Democratic Congressional candidate ⁠Shawn Harris has the preferable messaging⁠, but he's not running against Carpenter; so where […]