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Casey Cagle

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

Brian Kemp

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

Ethics

Sen. David Shafer accused of sexual harassment in the courtroom

Another Ga. Republican lawmaker is being sued for sexual harassment in the courtroom. Sen. David Shafer, who is also a leading Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, is referring to the accusation that he sexually harassed a veteran lobbyist as “politics, not the truth.” The lobbyist making the accusation, a 20-year Capitol veteran, said Shafer retaliated against her after she rejected his advances and harassed her after helping her get a bill passed in 2011. Shafer

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

Trump

Trump nominates a GOP cover-up expert as ambassador

In September, President Trump announced that he would nominate Georgia attorney Randy Evans to be the United States’ ambassador to Luxembourg. On the White House website they describe Evans as “a distinguished attorney, author and public servant,” but this hardly describes him. Evans has a long list of high profile clients in the GOP. His clients include Newt Gingrich, Sonny Perdue and Nathan Deal. Among other things, Evans helped Deal through his seven-year corruption scandal

Ethics

HHS Sec. Tom Price jet-setting on taxpayers’ dime

The Trump administration continues its pattern of corruption and hypocrisy. Episodes ranging from Jared Kushner, Reince Priebus and Steve Bannon using their personal email accounts for work-related information after the Trump administration slammed Hillary Clinton to Trump spending over $20 million in taxpayer money on trips to Mar-a-Largo. Now Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price has been jet-setting at taxpayers’ expense, both before and after he vowed to wring out wasteful spending in the government’s health