Tuesday was election day in House District 19. Voters in the Paulding County-based district went to the polls to elect a new state representative to fill the unexpired term of former House Speaker Glenn Richardson.
Richardson resigned after it was revealed that he had an affair with a lobbyist while pushing legislation beneficial to the [...]
Rasmussen is out with a new poll featuring head-to-head match-ups between Roy Barnes, the likely Democratic nominee, and four Republicans (Nathan Deal, Karen Handel, Eric Johnson and John Oxendine).
According to Rasmussen, Barnes’ support has dropped off noticeably since the last month. He is viewed very favorably by 26% of voters, but very unfavorable by [...]
Democrats have proposed their fix for the state’s budget crisis, which consists of a load of tax hikes:
Georgia state House and Senate Democrats gathered together today as part of the Working Famlies Legislative Caucus to present their ideas on how to balance the Georgia State budget. They say the state has to get more aggressive [...]
As mentioned on Wednesday night, the legislature is taking a two week break (actually, 2 1/2 weeks) to deal with the FY 2011 budget. They’ll reconvene on March 9th.
Word is Gov. Sonny Perdue is going to revise his budget estimates for the next fiscal year by around $1 billion. When budget estimates were originally [...]
On Day 20, Lawmakers covers passage of the revised FY 2010 budget out of the Senate and the passage of a new calendar allowing appropriators to take two weeks to work on the FY 2011 budget.
On Day 19, Lawmakers covers legislation that would allow private ownership of public water, a discussion on the budget Kelly McCutchen of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation and Alan Essig of the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute and much more.
Wednesday, a group of legislators in the Georgia House introduced a bill that would replace touch screen voting with paper ballots for future elections.
The legislation known as House Bill 1215 is co-sponsored by Republicans Timothy Bearden, Bobby Franklin, Austin Scott and Barry Loudermilk. Democrat Karla Drenner is also listed as a sponsor of the [...]
Jim Galloway hears that there will be a two week recess for members of the General Assembly while appropriators try to work on the FY 2011 budget:
We’ve picked up reliable word that the Legislature is about to go into cold storage while lawmakers try to work with Gov. Sonny Perdue to resolve the 2011 budget.
After [...]