Georgia State Senator Sally Harrell (D) remembers arriving at the parking garage near the legislative office building early, before the sun rose. Sitting in meetings through dinner, her stomach rumbling. Feverishly texting the chair of the Senate Ethics Committee, begging him to get her a copy of an election-related bill early enough so she could read it before voting on it — sometimes, she said, he did, and sometimes he didn’t.
Well beyond time that The Great Carpetbagging takes place. Soros and the rest should be paying people to move and turn these fucking states. Enough is enough. The white Christian conservative nationalism crap must be put down like the rabies infected dog it is.
Sounds like they should take it up in the Georgia State Supreme Court and try to get the bill declared in violation of the GA state constitution due to how it got passed.
It really is the most important legislation out there. We have got to pass it or we just will be fighting these fascist assholes on 50 different fronts.
“It’s not unheard of, but for something this huge and something that affects the public so much, it seems so wrong,” she said.
The problem is everything is formulated on a level of decency and the gravity of the individual situation. All those givens that are never written down but totally understood. The Republicans are capitalizing on that, tossing out not just convention but decency in a free for all. The Republicans no longer stand for democracy and are using democracy’s tools against it. That is the part so many people have a hard time grasping.
I think the problem is the old rural v urban fight. Plus a lot red states have majority urban centers that are blue.
As for the white Christian conservative nationalism crap I’m right there with you. I heard the politics editor of “The Atlantic” on Fresh Air this afternoon, and he said it wasn’t economic anxiety, but that Christianity is not the major force it used to be, which also ties into the demographic that the numbers of black and brown teenagers that are turning 18 is out pacing the number of whites. Once again it’s they fear that they will be treated like they have treated others- badly.
“In Georgia, Democrats have no such legislative tools and no such safety net. All they can do now is send up the alarm and hope Democrats like Manchin and Sinema are swayed to action.”
“I’m sorry for your loss. May the memory of your right to vote be a blessing.”
“The majority party on the House side took a Senate bill that we had dealt with in committee that was two pages long about who can send out absentee ballot applications and put a brand new bill on that bill number that contained a hodgepodge of different legislation,” Harrell said.
The substitution, introduced by state Rep. Barry Fleming (R), added 50 more sections and 91 pages to the bill — an hour before the committee was set to debate the two-page bill.
How can one find out where the 89 pages of new pieces of legislation came from? I mean I can’t think of the citizen legislator having 89 pages of changes to voting in GA just laying around, you know something that he wrote out over a weekend.
It comes from ALEC primarily. The useful idiot white Christian nationalists the GQP machine gets elected just receive it in the mail and then insert it into everything.
Well the other thing with taking prepackaged legislation from ALEC is did anyone in GA proof it?
We had a case here in MO when Jay Nixon-D was governor with a majority Republican lege. They passed an ALEC written piece of legislation which someone didn’t proof before passing. The passed piece of legislation went to the Governor’s desk, an aide read through it and discovered that we would now start collecting sales tax on medications, which not one Republican picked up on. Oops.
When she wrote the second book, didn’t Harper turn him into every white Christian male with “economic anxiety” that people like Atticus turned into? I haven’t read it…dunno if I could bring myself to bother at this point…but I thought that’s what I heard.
In America, the coup that turns us to fascist authoritarianism won’t be led by wild-eyed madmen, but by lawyers for the obscenely wealthy. After all, these 100 or so asshole pieces of human filth paid good money to lock in their permanent oligarchy. And it will be aided and abetted by complete idiot losers who will murder the rest of us so they can get the best spot to grab the crumbs from the master’s tables.
I know there’s some electoral calculus going on for Manchin, but he’s getting to the point of obliviously asking for whom the bell tolls as he clings to the last surviving palm tree on his own rapidly sinking island…
