Politics

⁠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 […]