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Disastrous candidates Cagle and Kemp head for runoff

After failing to win the majority of the vote in the primary, candidates Casey Cagle and Brian Kemp are headed for a Republican runoff in July that analysts say is “likely to be both an expensive and nasty campaign.” So far, Kemp and Cagle have already been leading nasty, extremist and backwards campaigns. Kemp aired an anti-immigration ad that parrots Trump and spewed his xenophobic, hateful rhetoric on a bus tour across the state. “These people

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Cagle and Ga. conservatives deny man-made climate change

The U.S. is the only country in the world that hasn’t signed the Paris agreement, which lays the framework for each country to plan and regularly report its own contribution to mitigate global warming. In every other country, climate change is a reality, not a partisan issue up for debate — even for conservatives. Hard to believe? Listen to these conservatives from across the world who agree that climate change is a real, man-made problem

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GOP gov. candidates parrot Trump’s lies about immigration and crime

Trump infamously slithered into the White House by building support for his presidential campaign in part by using xenophobic slurs particularly those against Mexican immigrants. “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists,” he claimed. While we know these statements are simply false, Georgia’s conservative gubernatorial candidates in Georgia haven’t gotten the message. Or, more likely, they just don’t care about the truth. They’re still spewing Trump’s bogus, backwards anti-immigration sentiments, regardless of the story

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Race to GOP primaries becoming race to bottom

Yikes! The Republican gubernatorial hopefuls are on a fast-paced race to the bottom. A (somewhat interchangeable) group of white men have been desperately trying to reassure the public that they are, in fact, the MOST racist, MOST anti-abortion, MOST anti-immigrant candidate of the whole lot. Where to begin in listing off the litany of disturbing choices these candidates have made? To start with, all of the top GOP candidates have made public pledges to support

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Cagle is flying high on the taxpayer dime

A WSB-TV investigation has revealed that Lt. Governor Casey Cagle has grievously misused taxpayer money. In the last five years, Casey Cagle has taken more 200 separate flights at a cost of $250,000 to the taxpayers. Many of these trips were essentially shuttling him around the state — sometimes multiple trips in a single day — with 37 of those trips originating in Cagle’s hometown of Gainesville. He racked up a bill of a quarter of

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Cagle’s tax cuts for wealthy, those who don’t question the NRA

It’s been a busy week for Ga. Republicans at the Capitol. Lt. Gov. Cagle started this week by slamming Delta Airlines, Georgia’s biggest employer, for ending discounts for NRA members. He decided to punish the airline by striking a provision that would have given Delta a $50 million dollar tax break on jet fuel. Deal, apparently angry that Cagle would go to the mat for gun lobbyists by penalizing a Georgia company that employs 33,000