The Ron Show

Last Thursday, ⁠WXIA-TV's Doug Richards reported⁠ on findings that showed a bit of a taxpayer cash corruption loop showing itself between Governor Brian Kemp and the Dooley family, where Brine influenced upwards of $27 million in school safety contracts, taking donations from Daniel Dooley and funneling it back to Daniel's brother Derek Dooley's Senate campaign. Meanwhile, Mike Collins had to cut ties (finally!) with Congressional staffer and campaign manager Brandon […]

Atlanta-based journalist George Chidi (⁠The Atlanta Objective⁠, ⁠The Guardian⁠) penned ⁠a thorough Substack piece⁠ taking a deep dive into the 2026 Georgia Democratic primary - going way down the ballot to give voters as much information as needed. Plus, hear how he's intrinsically tied to the death of Secoriea Turner and how that still affects him to this day, and what that wrongful death case could mean to the Keisha […]

The Atlanta Voice - ⁠celebrating sixty years in publication⁠ - is guided by ⁠editor-in-chief Donnell Suggs⁠, who's made himself available for this show on many occasions, and the Monday before the Georgia primary, it was great to catch up and get a sense where his readership and metro Atlanta's Black voting bloc is leaning on a handful of races. He recently ⁠sat down with former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms⁠, […]

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 […]

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 […]