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Chip Rogers

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

Education

Deal’s takeover plan is already failing students and teachers

Deal’s takeover plan is already failing students and teachers. Despite Georgians voting ‘no’ to his school takeover, he snuck in his takeover policy through legislation called The First Priority Act. Deal has drained public schools of their resources, he has cut $9.2 billion in funding since 2003. It’s no wonder schools are struggling. It’s clear what Deal’s plan is. He starves our public schools and labels them “failing,” so he can take them over and

Education

First round of school takeovers spells trouble for Georgia schools

Last year, Better Georgia and a coalition of teachers, parents and advocates fought hard to stop Gov. Deal from taking local control away from our public schools and handing our schools over to his handpicked, unelected education czar. Thanks to a lot of hard work by the coalition, voters overwhelmingly rejected Deal’s school takeover measure at the polls last November, marking a huge win for pro-public education Georgians. But instead of listening to what Georgians

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

Podcast Ep. 63: Interview with McCracken Poston

On this special episode of Better Georgia, we speak with attorney and former state representative of Ringgold, Georgia, McCracken Poston, about his career in the state legislature. We go over a wide range of topics, from his beginnings in Graysville and his unique election campaign, to his crackdown on lobbyists and comprehensive ethics reform. Listen to learn more about Poston’s incredible political career and how he has shaped our state for the better. You can

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