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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

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

Georgia’s “exact match” name laws target minority voters

Georgia’s “exact match” name laws disproportionately affect minorities, who are refused their right to vote because of a backwards conservative “solution” to a problem that doesn’t exist. With incident rates between 0.0003 percent and 0.0025 percent, “voter fraud” is a debunked conservative myth. The “exact match” laws put registered voters on a “pending registration” list if the name on their registration doesn’t exactly match the name on their license, including hyphens, apostrophes and spaces. In

Education

Ga. students are riding buses from the ’80s due to lack of funding

It’s no secret that Gov. Nathan Deal has chronically under-funded Georgia public education for the majority of his time in office. Teachers are underpaid, arts and music programs were cut and until very recently, some schools couldn’t afford to stay open for the full school year. Transportation to and from school is no exception to the gross undervaluation of our schools by conservative lawmakers. A number of school systems are still not receiving the resources

Stop paying for Plant Vogtle, replace corrupt Public Service Commissioners

Plant Vogtle continues to be a testament to corporate greed and government cronyism at the cost of $91 million per month for ratepayers. The project is five years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget. Georgia Power/Southern Company executives are giving themselves millions of dollars in annual bonuses (on top of their salaries), while passing their billions of dollars in failures onto working Georgians. The Public Service Commission exists to stop big energy corporations

Brian Kemp

GOP gov. candidates parrot Trump’s lies about immigration and crime

Trump infamously slithered into the White House by building support for his presidential campaign in part by using xenophobic slurs particularly those against Mexican immigrants. “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists,” he claimed. While we know these statements are simply false, Georgia’s conservative gubernatorial candidates in Georgia haven’t gotten the message. Or, more likely, they just don’t care about the truth. They’re still spewing Trump’s bogus, backwards anti-immigration sentiments, regardless of the story