Georgia Politics

(l-r) Vice Chairman Albert Murray, Member Robert E. Keller,  Member L. Gale Buckner, Chairman James E. Donald and Member Terry Barnard The five people who make up the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles --  Vice Chairman Albert Murray, Member Robert E. Keller, Member L. Gale Buckner, Chairman James E. Donald and Member Terry Barnard  -- are playing judge and jury with the life of Troy Davis , who could be innocent of the murder of Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail . Let's break down...Read Full Story

All Republicans vote in favor If this is not repealed "there will be virtually no activity by a state, a citizen, or a business that the feds would not someday be able to regulate." -- Bob Barr, 2008 Libertarian Presidential candidate From Eric Dondero: Encouraging news out of Georgia. The State Senate has just passed the Health Care Freedom of Choice Act by an overwhelming margin of 31 to 17. All Republicans voted for the measure. They were joined by only one single Democrat. The bill was...Read Full Story

Thanks to Bill Shipp, the Dean of Georgia politics, and his most recent column [Read the Bill Shipp column "Failed gubernatorial campaign has lessons for today's Georgia" ] in the Athens Banner-Herald, I've got some recommended reading for y'all.  It's the Georgia Budget & Policy Institute's (GBPI) report on "The State of Working Georgia" . In this ad released by the Perdue campaign, they claim that "He [Sonny Perdue] set priorites, cut waste, focused on creating jobs..." , but according to...Read Full Story

Meet Pamela L. Lewis, a homeless 4.0 GPA student at Griffin Technical College that was displaced by Hurricane Katrina and is presently sleeping in a '95 Ford Explorer as a resident of Riverdale, Ga. without a source of income.   The student, a Katrina survivor, was recently denied food-stamps by Clayton County-DFAS in Jonesboro, Ga. because she is not working at least 20 hrs/wk while attending school. And to top things off, a FEMA representative informed the student that her case was closed...Read Full Story