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Governor Brian Kemp's last hurrah with the veto pen (and the 'sign into law' pen, too) is akin to burying landmines on property just before abandoning it for someone else to step all over. ⁠Income & property tax relief measures passed by the GOP-led General Assembly⁠ will shift tax burden onto consumption taxes everyone will pay - disproportionately impacting the poor and working class - to give the better-and-well-of a […]

⁠Fair Fight Action ⁠CEO Lauren Groh-Wargo (who's now been ⁠called to testify before a state Senate panel investigating the now-defunct New Georgia Project⁠) joined me to vent over the state of civil rights & marginalized voter rights in a post-'Callais' environment. Lauren spoke of the need for a "new civil rights movement." Well, that new coalition is ⁠assembling Saturday in Selma⁠ - first at the Edmun Pettis bridge - with […]

After the 'Callais' decision by the US Supreme Court, Democrats were already bracing for 'confederate' states to hastily re-draw Congressional maps to eliminate majority black districts, clearly showing southern conservatives having moved on from 'racism' (note: sarcasm). Then came the Virginia Supreme Court deciding that state's hasty left-leaning gerrymander ran afoul of state law (by a 10-1 vote - not even close). So naturally, Democrats initially started ⁠grasping at an […]

PLUS: A Democrat governor in GA having to work w/a GOP legislature & 'Friday Funnies' Thursday's conversation with ⁠former Fulton prosecutor Will Wooten⁠, running for a Georgia Appeals Court seat, dropped just before the ⁠AJC's Bill Torpy penned his op/ed ⁠where he somewhat insinuates that perhaps Fulton DA Fani Willis may have dispatched candidates for a 'revenge tour' of sorts. Georgia Recorder columnist Jay Bookman ⁠offered more perspective on the […]

His Georgia Court of Appeals judicial candidacy garners enough attention for ⁠Will Wooten⁠ because he is who he is on two fronts: he's an out gay man in the South, and a former Fulton County prosecutor, having⁠ worked with Fani Willis' office to prosecute Donald Trump⁠ and his band of co-conspirators for attempting to overturn the 2020 Presidential election results here in Georgia. While AJC op/ed writer Bill Torpy likens […]

PLUS: Reparations for white voters? Republicans want to draw inner city voters towards their suburban 'white saviors' & Geoff Duncan's new TV ad is out The Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) has roughly 700 boxes of Fulton County's 2020 general election ballots and now they ⁠want names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of all the Fulton County election workers and volunteers from the 2020⁠ cycle, too. Uhm, why? As […]

Economic indicators in "MAGA country" and Trump's hemorrhaging right-leaning independent voters indicate it may not matter how gerrymandered some red states are. ⁠Farm bankruptcies are climbing. ⁠ ⁠Foreclosures are at a six-year high.⁠ ⁠Red states lead the way.⁠ ⁠Tariffs have done 'significant damage' to the economy.⁠ ... and yet, Georgia Republicans are still "all-in" for Trump. Baffling! Well, as ⁠CNN's Harry Enten notes, ⁠right-leaning independents are leaving the "Trump train" […]

PLUS: the on-and-off again (brief) mifepristone mail ban. Melita shares her thoughts on that, as well. Four days ago, I'm complaining there isn't enough polling on the Democratic gubernatorial race in Georgia, and since then we have two new polls out, and the only consistency among them (and all of them) is that former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms enjoys a still-healthy lead, but if there is to be a […]