It will be happening at 4:30 PM. Click here to observe. The schedule is as follows:
4:30 PM Kasim Reed
4:45 PM Amir Faroki
5:00 PM Clair Muller
5:15 PM Ceasar Mitchell
5:30 PM Mary Norwood
5:45 PM Liz Coyle
6:00 PM Alex Wan
6:15 PM Aaron Watson
Thanks to everyone [...]
A certain domestic terrorist organization has suggested UGA replace the newly departed UGA VII with a robotic dog.
I particularly detest this organization because they have the ability to do stupid things to get earned media attention, so I will not honor their attempt by mentioning them by name, nor by [...]
Received a campaign email from Angela Hicks, which included the following:
We’re excited to announce State Senator Ross Tolleson from Perry, will serve as our Honorary Campaign Chairman. Ross is a tireless worker for Georgia ; we are honored to have him join us. Thank you Ross!
Hicks is in a [...]
From A Press Release:
ATLANTA, Georgia – On Saturday, December 5 the Metro Veterans Coalition of the Fulton County Republican Party will host a Veterans Town Hall: The State of Veterans Health Care & Benefits featuring former U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Anthony J. Principi, U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, who sits [...]
WXIA has a video that allegedly show someone picking up Mary Norwood yard signs and taking them to a Kasim Reed campaign office for payment. A teaser video is on the Political Insider’s blog along with this:
State Rep. Ralph Long of Atlanta, the only elected official now supporting mayoral [...]
Tomorrow afternoon, I’ll be one of a group of bloggers asking questions of Mary Norwood, Kasim Reed, Ceasar Mitchell and Clair Muller. As you know, Norwood and Reed are in a runoff for Mayor of Atlanta while Mitchell and Muller are in a runoff for City Council President. There are [...]
In case you’re interested, I sat in on the Georgia Politics Podcast on Saturday with Joseph Geierman, Catherine Smith, Rusty Tanton and James Williams.
Among the issues discussed are the Atlanta mayoral race, gubernatorial primaries and the situation with the Speaker.
You can listen to [...]
We’re all either busy or already on vacation.
Talk among yourselves until we get some new topics up.
OPEN THREAD:
[...]You know what to do. Comment using the console below or via Twitter using the hashtag #gagang.
[...]Often, when politicians are personally affected by an issue, their perspective changes. A soft on crime victim of crime gets tough. A free wheeling legislator with a family member injured or killed by not wearing a seatbelt, becomes a seatbelt zealot, etc.
With Speaker Richardson’s mental health issues, I wonder [...]
Being out of town, we’ve fallen down on the job and failed to metion this big news.
David Adelman has been nominated Ambassador to Singapore. Congrats to him. The Senate GOP is probably breathing a sigh of relief. Adelman’s a sharp one.
[...]It looks like we’ll have another special election.
AUGUSTA, Ga. – NBC Augusta 26 News has learned State Rep. Hardie Davis will resign as District 122 State Representative Friday. Davis was elected to the position in the fall of 2006.
Earlier this month Davis announced he would run for former Senator [...]
Jim Beck has stepped down as President of the Georgia Christian Coalition. Beck took over when Sadie Fields left to form the Georgia Christian Alliance.
Received via email:
Atlanta- The Georgia Christian Coalition has announced a new president, Columbus resident Jerry Luquire has been named to the post. According to outgoing President [...]
Roger Hines announced yesterday that he is running against incumbent School Superintendent Kathy Cox in the Republican primary. Along with the press release kicking off his run comes an endorsement from Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers:
The rain stopped long enough today for hundreds of supporters to listen to Roger [...]
Bill Clinton Does. I just got an email announcing Clinton will attend a fundraiser for Thurbert Baker.
The Press Release:
(Atlanta) Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker announced today that President Bill Clinton will deliver remarks at a fundraiser to benefit his 2010 campaign for Governor of Georgia. The event will be [...]
US Rep. Nathan Deal, who is seeking the GOP nomination for Georgia of Georgia, told the Savannah Morning News that he’d sign a $1 per pack cigarette tax hike into law if it were passed by the legislature, hoping to use the revenues to plug the budget gap:
U.S. Rep. [...]
Tonight, 5:30pm, Five Seasons at the Prado/Sandy Springs, is the Peach Pundit Road Show/Happy Hour. I’ll be there, and based on how the day is going at the “real job”, I’ll be surly and bitter. Beer should help.
Scheduled to attend from the front page are Jason Pye and Buzz [...]
Looks like someone in Georgia is doing something right. NCR, Rubbermaid and now Sony Ericcson are relocating to our state.
Sony Ericsson moving North American HQ to Atlanta, newspapers say | ajc.com
[...]Representative Joe Wilson no longer has a monopoly on inappropriate outbursts in public. Apparently, Mrs. Judson Hill was inspired enough by Rep. Wilson that she decided to try it out on her husband’s primary challenger, Lynda Coker, at a recent gathering of the North Fulton Republican Women’s Club. From [...]
From a Press Release:
SMYRNA – Today Representative Rob Teilhet formally endorsed Stacey Evans to succeed him as the representative from State House District 40.
“I’ve known Stacey Evans for several years as a community leader and know her to be intelligent, hard working, and passionate about service,” said Representative Teilhet. “Stacey [...]
Skipping past the property damage, long-term road closures, and overall life routine disruptions, we have apparently missed the biggest crisis of the recent Atlanta floods until now: Frozen Waffle Shortage
Kellogg Company said that due to “a confluence of events” — including flooding at its Bucknell Drive manufacturing facility — [...]
The Atlanta Hawks, you know, our pro-basketball team here in Atlanta, currently sit atop the NBA power rankings. This should give Dick Williams plenty to talk about on next Sunday’s Georgia Gang. In fact, Coach Mike Woodson should probably be given a Nobel Peace Prize for this.
In case you [...]
Whether the result of unexciting candidates, a disinterested electorate, or collapsing local media outlets, the contest to be Atlanta’s next mayor flew under the radar until a couple of weeks before election day. The sole entertainment injected in the race was when Mary Norwood was attacked for being a Republican, [...]
From the Tipline:
Secretary of State Candidate Brian Kemp will be having a Young Professionals event tomorrow, November 17th, 5:00 to 7:00pm at Chastain Park. Hosts are asked to give or raise $500, Couples attending are asked to contribute $100.
The Legion House At Chastain Park
3905 Powers Ferry Road, NW
[...]
11Alive and V103 commissioned a poll in the Atlanta Mayor’s race runoff. SurveyUSA is back with the results.
If the runoff for Atlanta Mayor were today, would you vote for … (choices rotated) Mary Norwood? Or Kasim Reed?
Reed: 49%
Norwood: 46%
Undecided: 5%
Did you vote in the general election [...]
I see from Jim Galloway’s twitter feed that the Southern Voice has been shut down and the locks changed. Hard times abound for alternative and traditional media sources.
[...]Just came across a study from Georgia Tech on this issue from, admittedly, over a month ago:
* Forty percent of Atlanta’s high-tech start-up companies leave the state within three years, with California, New York, New Jersey, and Florida serving as their most common destinations. “Instead of building great [...]
Just read another tedious exploration of the election and race relations and noted this:
Since Jackson’s first mayoral victory in 1973, the first time a black candidate won the job, most African-American residents have looked at the city’s black leadership as a vital cog that has opened the doors to [...]
Here we go again. Comment using the console below or via Twitter using the hashtag #gagang.
[...]I intended to write a post this morning encouraging the political powers that be to stand behind Glenn Richardson. It’s no secret I’ve disagreed with a lot of his positions, particularly two years ago, but I think we’ve all seen him come back last year and become extremely effective.
He’s run [...]
Today Speaker of the House Glenn Richardson released the following statement:
“As you know, in an effort to protect my family, I have and will continue to have a practice that I do not discuss my personal and private life. However, in this situation, I feel compelled to speak out in [...]
The Speaker is releasing a statement at 5:00 p.m. about some serious health issues he is dealing with including an attempted suicide.
I don’t want this to turn into a free for all, so I’m closing the comments out of respect for him and his family at this time.
Our prayers are [...]
I attended a “Young Professionals” event held for Gubernatorial candidate Eric Johnson last night at the Twisted Taco in Midtown Atlanta. Johnson’s campaign reserved the upstairs and hosted a capacity crowd for a little mixing and mingling of the well dressed and upwardly mobile with a little political discussion thrown [...]
Yes Peach Puniteers, it’s Friday the 13th! Be sure not to agitate the situation by breaking any mirrors, walking under ladders or letting a black cat cross your path. It might be better to be a little agoraphobic and stay inside, commenting on this open thread.
[...]Today’s title card is between Fulton DA Paul Howard and Judge Marvin Arrington, after Howard ordered an Assistant District Attorney not to pay a contempt fine levied by Arrington:
Arrington wrote Howard “walked up to me, within ¼ inch of my face, and shouted that I was making a mockery [...]
Well, the official press release has not gone out, but the website is live and integrates twitter and facebook. You can also view it at:
One thing that many organizations do not do is point the three main domain extensions to the same site.
Kudos to Cobb for a great [...]
I’ve written a post before on runoffs that analyzes the history in Georgia, but can’t find it.
The gist is that if the first place winner in a runoff won within 5% of the second place finishers, the 2nd place finisher almost always wins. [Ed. Note: I knew I should not [...]
Two Things:
There is a rare Thursday NFL game tomorrow night. Make your picks for Pro Pick’em, and set your teams for Fantasy Football if applicable.
Also, as previously announced, there will be a Peach Pundit Road Show happy hour at the Five Season’s Brewing Company, Sandy Springs, Next Thursday, November 19th, [...]
The State Bar of Georgia routinely will run advertisements on television across Georgia extolling the virtues of their organization or some other message which they perceive as being meaningful as part of their “Cornerstones of Freedom” public advertising campaign. From the Bar telling people [...]
Mr. Jones is one of the 8 9 10 candidates running for the 9th Congressional district, and I’ve now met him at several events, including last night’s Walker County GOP Dinner. He’s also a frequent commenter here at Peach Pundit. More importantly, he was kind enough to invite me to [...]
Doug MacGinnitie announced today that he has added members to his Military Advisory Voting Committee. MacGinnitie has previously annouced his committee with the purpose of “finding and developing a plan to make voting for active military and overseas personnel easy and efficient.”
New to the team are:
Gary Smith, a resident of [...]
I was told the other day that legislators are, in fact, working right now on transportation issues. Digging around a little more, I talked to a State Representative today who said he expects a comprehensive transportation plan to make it through the legislature “faster than a trip up the connector [...]
Atlanta City Council President Lisa Borders endorsed Kasim Reed for Atlanta mayor Wednesday, saying he was the best candidate to improve the city’s finances. The runoff between Reed and Mary Norwoord is set for December 1.
Earlier this week Jim Martin also endorsed Reed. Snore.
[...]It is 11 o’clock in the morning. 91 years ago at this very moment, World War I officially ended. While we call it Veterans Day in this country, most of the world knows it as Remembrance Day. The “War to End All Wars” was not really so. At this moment, [...]
The AJC wants to know if Georgia can afford the death penalty.
An accused killer from Pike County has sat in jail for nearly four years without a trial — not because of any problems with the evidence but because the state is seeking the death penalty and cannot pay [...]
We should scrap the corporate income tax anyway
In a sea of negative economic numbers, one stood out in the state revenue report Gov. Sonny Perdue issued Monday afternoon: In the month of October, Georgia actually had negative revenue from corporate income taxes.
That meant that over 31 days last month, [...]
Erick, Buzz Brockway, Pete Randall, Chris, Jason Shepherd, Icarus, Jason Pye
