Chatham Dems

Congratulation to John Barrow in the !2th District,Mickey Stephens in the State House 161,
and to Lester Jackson for State Senate post 2 . A job well done.

Click the link below to watch the District Attorney Forum held on July 1.
http://www.wsav.com/midatlantic/sav/news/elections/forum_video.html

Contact information for the Lester Jackson campaign: Lester Jackson for House Senate District 2, 1501 Abercorn. 912-233-3345, lesterjacksonforstatesenate@yahoo.com.

The 2008 session of the Georgia General Assembly came to an end at midnight April 4th. As on most last nights of the General Assembly the House and Senate passed a flurry of laws.

Jack Kingston supports earmark reform in public but in private is all in favor of earmarks (but he was wearing his lapel pin at the time).
An article in Friday’s The Hill says:
A House Republican leading efforts to reform the earmarking process has come under fire from House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) for privately […]

Kudos to Savannah Representatives Lester Jackson and Craig Gordon for voting to reject the latest (and hopefully final) iteration of Speaker Glenn Richardson’s strange plan to reform state taxes. Perhaps the legislature will now take a principled look at how to fund trauma centers, rather than just tacking it onto the end of any old bill […]

Jack Kingston appeared on “Live with Dan Abrams” on Thursday without a lapel pin and castigated Barack Obama for not wearing a lapel pin.
The Bill Gillespie campaign has posted a YouTube video on this subject.

As the AJC Political Insider says,
A cardinal rule of politics: When attacking your opponent for failing to wrap himself in the […]

[A full list of services to be taxed under HB 979 is at the end of this post. I can think of a lot of Chatham Dems who would be affected. Why do I think enforcement would be difficult? And where’s the money to pay the bureaucrats needed to collect the taxes coming from?–karen]

If we don’t start switching to renewable energy now, most of Chatham County will be underwater in 50 years’ time. Rep. John Barrow doesn’t appear to understand this. The U.S. House of Representatives today passed the Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008 without his support.

Congressman John Barrow (Georgia 12th congressional district), who is of course a superdelegate, today announced that he will cast his vote for Senator Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention in Denver in August.

Rep. Lester Jackson is going to send us periodic updates on the legislative session. Here is the first one from his communications people, Capitoline Communications, a division of Claudia & Company.
The House, in history-making fashion, overrode 12 of Governor Perdue’s vetoes. At the conclusion of the 2007 Georgia Legislative Session, there were many indications that […]