Politics

Gerald Griggs, ⁠Atlanta-based attorney⁠, advocate and activist - and former NAACP Georgia chapter President, joined me Friday morning to weigh in on the landscape in a post-'Callais' U.S. and Georgia. He and I discussed the near-immediate aftermath of fever-pitch GOP redistricting to dilute Black voter power in Congress and even at the state level. Georgia's governor, Brian Kemp, this week announced he, too, is reconvening the state legislature to further […]

Also, Democrats need to present an alternative to the GOP's and their own 'status quo' & is there a pattern of campaign finance ethics issues with Bottoms' campaigns? Not only did ⁠Brian Kemp call a special session of the General Assembly back to the Gold Dome⁠ to address a mess of its own making (mandating the elimination of QR codes from voter ballots), but the already-and-disproportionately gerrymandered state - in […]

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 […]