Welcome to the site
Welcome to the Georgia Legislative Watch. I’m one half of the blogmastering team here, and I wanted to give a quick tour of the site.
As you can see, we went live today and already have 64 pieces of legislation in the system. Since we don’t expect people to scroll through all these bills looking for discussion, we’ve setup a new comments item to your right. It will list the legislation with the most recent comments. You can also see the most recent posts and comments by clicking on Site Admin once you’ve logged in.
If you’re looking for a specific piece of legislation, you can use the search page just under the picture of the Capitol Building. If you’d like to browse by legislation topic, select View by Issue.
If you have any comments or suggestions, you can send them to us at contact at gabills dot com.
January 5th, 2007 at 12:17 am
Please, please keep a scoreboard on:
1) Meaningful, real legislation vs. meaningless tripe.
How many bills we be presented and passed that are truly difference makers for the state, as opposed to someone like Earl Ehrhart proposing something like lesbians being banned from dining in public.
2) Well-written, smart legislation vs. bills coming straight from lobbyists’ pens.
Both parties are to blame for this embarrassment. At least Repub’s have some spit & vinegar to them. Dem’s in Georgia remind me of that jellyfish scene in Finding Nemo. Is there another state that has such a blowhard, delusional, puff out the chest facade of a state capital as the Peach State?
January 5th, 2007 at 7:03 am
Ultimately that is going to be the responsibility of the readers and commenters. Our purpose is to provide the information and votes and so forth, as well as to provide a place to discuss legislation.
We are going to remain fairly non-partisan on legislation on this site.
January 5th, 2007 at 7:25 am
The real chaf-from-wheat designation needed is to figure out which bills are dead on arrivial, and which ones are gonna get out of committee. Perhaps we can bump the legislation back to the top when it comes out of committee, or is scheduled for a floor vote.
January 5th, 2007 at 9:58 am
Good work guys, this looks like it will be a neat site. I second the idea of trying to distinguish useful vs. useless legislation. You could make it reader-generated by having a Digg-style up-or-down vote for each one (useful vs. useless or something), and a page that displays a running tally of the votes.
January 5th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
I’ll be putting together a list of votes for each day the GGA is in session, but as far as rating legislation…something like that would be in Chris’ corner.
January 5th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Something like the ratings system displayed here could work too:
http://www.lesterchan.net/wordpress/
You can download it from here:
http://www.lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming.php
(item 6 on the list, called WP-PostRatings)
All you’d need then would be a page to display bills rated highest-to-lowest, which would probably be pretty simple to make if it isn’t already part of the plug-in.
January 5th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
Good work folks. We have needed something like this for a long time.
January 5th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
Great work guys! We’ve been needing this!
Are you guys going to set up RSS Feeds? It should be an option in Word Press.
Keep it up!