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Brian Kemp

Georgia is sick of gun “jokes,” ready for legislation

Competition for Georgia’s top political positions is starting to reveal just how out of touch GOP candidates really are about gun control. While a new poll shows that Georgians of all political stripes are increasingly in favor of tightening gun laws and regulations, a gubernatorial candidate can be seen pointing his gun at a minor in a vile TV ad and one candidate for lieutenant governor has challenged another to a shootout. Incompetent failure Brian

Government Accountability

Journalist manhandled by police: “I felt like I was being raped with my clothes on”

On August 23 2014, citizen journalist Nydia Tisdale, who had been granted permission to film the public event, was forcibly removed from a GOP rally at Burt’s Farm in Dawsonville while recording speeches by candidates and officials. Some of Georgia’s top conservative brass like Gov. Deal and then-AG Sam Olens were in attendance. Just this week, Tisdale was acquitted of a felony obstruction charge, but could still be looking at up to a year in

Economy

Conservatives sneak backwards priorities into tax plan

Determined to secure a healthcare “win” regardless of who it affects, conservatives are slipping language into the tax bill that restricts women’s rights and attacks the ACA. Conservatives, led by a desperate Trump, buried a provision on page 93 of their 429-page proposal that would allow fetuses to be treated as individuals and named as beneficiaries of college savings accounts. This is obviously a thinly-veiled back-door attempt to establish personhood from the moment of conception.

Education

Conservatives want cuts for teachers, tax breaks for the One Percent

It’s bad enough that we live in a time where our underpaid, undervalued, overworked teachers have to spend their own money to purchase supplies. What’s worse is that now conservatives want to take money out of teachers’ pockets so they can give massive tax breaks to corporations and the One Percent. A proposed House GOP tax bill, the Tax Cut and Jobs Act, would eliminate a $250 deduction that educators can use to help offset

President 2016

Trump’s disgraceful VP pick

If you were running a hateful, fear-mongering, bile-filled presidential campaign, who would you pick as your VP? The guy responsible for $60 million in economic damages to his state’s capital city alone? Someone who’s supported anti-woman and anti-LGBT legislation? Better yet, someone who did this all in one fell swoop? Trump’s VP “Guess Who?” game is over, and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is the winner. The same Mike Pence responsible for the disastrous RFRA (Religious

Georgia: The next notch in Trump’s belt

Most of us have seen Donald Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric on TV during his speeches in early primary states like Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. But as Georgia’s presidential primary approaches, Trump is becoming a bigger presence here, having made appearances already in Macon and — just this past weekend — in downtown Atlanta. The rhetoric was nothing new. There were the attacks on undocumented Latinos, and more crass comments on the press, saying that those in the