The Georgia State Legislature is in full swing, and GOP legislators are working hard to make voting a real pain in the ass for everyone. Because Republicans lost fair and square in statewide elections recently, these sore losers think that if fewer people vote they’ll win again. So they’re proposing […]
Houston Gaines and Marcus Wiedower want you to think they’re moderates, but the most recent bill they’re cosponsoring strips budgeting control from the Athens-Clarke County Commission. House Bill 286 says that county governing authorities would be unable to reduce the budget of their police force by more than 5 percent […]
With Georgia turning blue, one of the Republicans’ highest priorities in the current general assembly session is making it harder to vote. They want to eliminate “no cause” requests for absentee ballots. They want to require a photocopy of the voter’s ID to be sent in with the absentee ballot […]
If there’s one thing this pandemic has taught us, it’s that investing in public health makes us all stronger and safer. Gov. Kemp has proposed a 2022 budget that includes only a 0.3% (less than $900k) increase in our state’s public health budget. Georgia’s public health infrastructure has long been […]