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Chip Rogers had to go

Chip Rogers served the Senate Majority Leader in the state legislature, then as a political appointee at Georgia Public Broadcasting. Now he’s done with public service thanks to the persistence of Better Georgia and our supporters. Rogers’ tenure as the Senate Majority Leader ended in 2012 after Better Georgia brought to light video of him comparing then President Barack Obama to Stalin and accusing groups like the Georgia Chamber of Commerce of using mind control. Rogers

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35 Georgia senators voted for Chip Rogers over education

On Friday, the Georgia Senate finally voted on Chip Rogers. Until now, senators ignored your signed petitions, even running from television cameras to hide behind office equipment. But that ended Friday when Sen. Horacena Tate offered an amendment to move $150,000 from the Georgia Public Broadcasting budget to the education budget. 13 senators chose to support education over Chip Rogers and Gov. Deal’s political appointment. (See those senators). But 35 senators voted to keep Chip Rogers’ $150,000 taxpayer-funded salary in the state budget. (See those senators).

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Gov. Nathan Deal pays Chip Rogers how much? To do what?!

Governor Nathan Deal has sewn a $150,000 per year golden parachute for disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers by creating a new Executive Producer position for him at Georgia Public Broadcasting. This 760-percent taxpayer-funded raise will make Chip Rogers the second highest paid employee at GPB. Rogers’s new “dream job” will be to produce a show focusing, rather blatantly, on the successes of the Nathan Deal’s job creation initiatives. So, it works out for

Did Chip Rogers really compare President Obama to Stalin?

Yesterday we told you about Majority Leader Chip Rogers’ anti-business, anti-environment conspiracy theories. You’ll remember that he hates the Georgia Chamber because he thinks the group uses United Nations-approved, Soviet-era mind control techniques to secretly steal your freedom. He also hates “sustainable development,” “smart growth” and “historical preservation.” But we couldn’t tell you everything about Majority Leader Rogers’ crazy taxpayer-funded meeting in just one email. In that same meeting, some of our state senators listened carefully as a failed Tea

Do Georgians want corporations writing our laws?

The American Legislative Exchange Council is the most powerful corporate front group you’ve never heard of. Financed almost entirely by Big Business, the group lets corporations help write model legislation that is then secretly passed on to legislators to be passed in state legislatures. Most of the time, the public doesn’t even know that a bill passed by lawmakers is an ALEC law – unless a lawmaker accidentally reveals that it was, like in Florida.

Coca-Cola quit ALEC; Georgia candidates should do the same

So far, four major corporate sponsors of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) have indicated they will not renew their memberships to the controversial conservative organization. Atlanta-based Coca-Cola was the first corporate member to announce its decision publicly. Others who have followed include accounting software maker Intuit, PepsiCo, and Kraft Foods, Inc. Better Georgia calls on every candidate for and member of the General Assembly to terminate his or her ALEC membership or pledge to