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Better Georgia: Your Voice for Progress

For too long, Georgia’s conservative supermajority has been the mouthpiece of corporations, the ultra-rich and the radical Right. They push legislation intended to strip rights away from gays and lesbians, disenfranchise minority voters and hurt Georgia families. They slash Georgia’s education budget, do nothing as our infrastructure crumbles and block common-sense health care policies. That’s why we created Better Georgia. We know there’s a need to provide a voice for Georgians who don’t have lobbyists

Featured

Medicaid expansion a must for Georgia’s hospitals and families

Rural hospital closures continue to decimate local communities in Georgia. Gov. Nathan Deal, House Speaker David Ralston and House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams, among other policymakers, have all publicly addressed the issue. In other words: Everyone knows it’s a problem. But partisan politics once again gets in the way of implementing a common-sense solution. Gov. Deal and conservative leaders want to snub President Obama and the federal government by refusing to expand Medicaid. But it’s Georgia’s

Education

Deal’s school takeover plan a failure from the start

The hotly contested education reform championed by Gov. Nathan Deal will be on the November ballot. Called the “Opportunity School District (OSD)” by supporters, the measure is really a school takeover plan, designed to benefit for-profit charter schools and their proponents, at the expense of funding a public education for all students. Gov. Deal claims that this bill is about school performance — but there isn’t one word in the legislation about strategies to improve

2016 Legislative Session

Gov. Nathan Deal should be the last to threaten ‘punishment’ over medical marijuana

Why is Gov. Deal threatening a state representative for helping families get the medical marijuana their children so desperately need?

Last year, with great fanfare, Gov. Deal signed a law allowing some Georgia patients to legally possess medical marijuana oil prescribed by their physicians.

The truth is, this law was broken from the beginning – a false hope that forced patients or their family members to risk violating federal law by transporting the medicine across state lines.

Now, Gov. Deal has threatened Rep. Allen Peake, patients and their family members with “punishment,” he called it, for doing the only thing they can to get the needed medicine the governor championed last year.

2016 Legislative Session

Georgia needs more teaching, not testing

The bipartisan rollback of the federal No Child Left Behind law has returned power to the states to decide whether and how to use high stakes tests to hold teachers and students accountable.

Now, we need to hold our lawmakers and Gov. Deal accountable by asking them to act now to reduce the number of precious classroom hours that are spent on testing.

2016 Legislative Session

No surprises in governor’s speech

Gov. Deal’s State of the State address Wednesday delivered what we’ve come to expect from this Governor’s office: more of the same. Just like every year before, Gov. Deal used his annual speech to showcase a Georgia that works for Gov. Deal and his buddies, but nobody else.