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Walter Jones
ATLANTA -- A year after relaxing sentencing for minor crimes, Georgia is seeing the first hints of an inmate-population decline. |
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By Morris News Service
ATHENS -- Athenian John Padgett is the new chairman of the Georgia Republican Party. |
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5/20/2013 —
Hastings Wyman:
Florida: Governor’s Race Up In the Air |
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“I have no plans to run for governor. I have no intention of running for governor,” US Sen. Bill Nelson (D) told Tampa Bay Times Bureau Chief Alex Leary recently. “Why can’t you accept the King’s English?” That of course begs the question, Why not a Sherman statement? “If nominated, I will not run. If elected, I will not serve.” And that Nelson has not said. |
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5/16/2013 —
Matt Towery:
'When Those Liberals Start Mixing Into Policy ...' |
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"When those liberals start mixing into policy, it's murder." That quote came from none other than John F. Kennedy in 1962, taken from a source in a Newsweek article, and later discussed with his friend Ben Bradlee, then of Newsweek and later the head of The Washington Post during the Watergate years. |
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5/15/2013 —
Sarita Chourey :
DNR Chief Has Brush With Saltwater Plume |
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COLUMBIA — South Carolina’s top natural resources official drinks saltwater. He doesn’t do it to show solidarity with the Bluffton-Hilton Head area, where some drinking water wells have been tainted by saltwater intrusion. Rather, S.C. DNR director Alvin Taylor’s well has been contaminated for about two years.
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5/15/2013 —
Hastings Wyman:
North Carolina: GOPers Circling Around Hagan |
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The last time an incumbent Democratic US Senator was reelected in North Carolina was 1968, when the legendary Sam Ervin won his fifth term with 61% of the vote. Since then, under the onslaught of the growth of a vibrant, if not always victorious, conservative Republican Party, a GOP challenger has managed to unseat every freshman Democratic senator. |
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5/14/2013 —
Hastings Wyman:
Obama and an Overreach of Power |
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Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. These powerful words, penned by British moralizer Lord Acton in the 19th Century (thank you, Google), came to mind when I first saw the Huffington Post story that the Department of Justice has been collecting data on telephone calls made by Associated Press journalists, including some of those in the House of Representatives press gallery. |
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5/9/2013 —
Matt Towery:
Republicans Prevail in South Carolina, but Can Democrats Take a Prize in Georgia? |
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ATLANTA -- Despite on onslaught of national press that seemed to be pushing Elizabeth Colbert Busch toward a victory in the South Carolina special congressional election, former Gov. Mark Sanford, baggage and all, prevailed with a resounding victory. And while I never judge personal lives, it is fair to say that voters in that district overlooked quite a lot in giving Sanford a pass on his past and into the U.S. House. |
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Around the South |
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Arkansas: State treasurer jailed, on suicide watch. State Treasurer Martha Shoffner was arrested Saturday by the FBI and taken to the Pulaski County (Little Rock) Jail, where she was placed on suicide watch, reports Arkansas Online. She has been charged with extortion, reported Arkansas Business. Shoffner, a Democrat, had been under investigation for more than a year. The charges allegedly relate to her handling of state investments and campaign funds. Mississippi: Wicker says IRS scandal hurts bipartisan deals. “I can’t imagine that this IRS scandal and the controversy surrounding the overreach and intimidation by the IRS will do anything but pour cold water on the President’s attempt to raise taxes as part of a grand bargain,” said US Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS). Wicker, one of 11 Republican senators who had dinner with President Obama in April, made his remarks on MSNBC, reported Politico. Kentucky: Paul walks back his libertarianism. US Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) quoted in the Daily Beast: “I’m not advocating everyone go out and run around with no clothes on and smoke pot.” Shucks. |
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