Your morning jolt: Rick Santorum, Ann Romney headed to Georgia
We know that Newt Gingrich, who avoided the Republican presidential contest in Michigan, will be at the state Capitol this morning.
We know that Gingrich has declared a win in Georgia, which he once represented in Congress, to be crucial to his GOP presidential campaign.
What we didn’t know is whether a win-hungry Rick Santorum, deprived of victory in Michigan by Mitt Romney last night, will put all his eggs in Ohio and seek a post-industrial rematch with Romney. Or might he concentrate on the South?
We’re told this morning that the former Pennsylvania senator, who has a foray into Tennessee today, will be in Dalton at 8 a.m. Thursday for a rally outside City Hall.
Atlanta, GA – Republican Presidential candidate Rick Santorum will visit Georgia tomorrow morning, beginning with a manufacturing plant tour and a Town Hall meeting in Dalton. Santorum will then head toward Atlanta, holding an 11 a.m. rally at the Atlantic Aviation hanger, 240 Airport Road, at Peachtree Dekalb Airport. The event is free and open to the public.
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We’ve also just gotten word that Ann Romney, wife of Mitt, will be in Georgia for two events on Thursday: A noon appearance at Smokejack Barbecue in Alpharetta, and a 5:30 p.m. appearance for the opening of Romney state headquarters on Maple Street in Buckhead — just down from Newt Gingrich’s headquarters. Both Romney events are open to the public. Take the spousal visit as a sign that her husband isn’t likely to be here before Super Tuesday.
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And you thought Occupy Atlanta didn’t make much of an impression.
State Capitol police were called to haul a number of protestors out of a Senate Insurance and Labor Committee hearing on SB 469, a measure that – among many other things – would make it a crime to conduct mass picketing at private residences.
From my AJC colleague Kristin Torres:
The bill, drafted by the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, passed unanimously through the Senate Insurance and Labor Committee despite nearly an hour of testimony — mostly by union members, advocacy groups and individuals who opposed the bill. Committee members made one change, making it a “high and aggravated” misdemeanor and not a felony for someone convicted of conspiring to commit criminal trespass.
A taste of the language:
A person, or organization that he or she is affiliated with or acting on behalf of, commits an offense when he or she engages in targeted picketing of a private residence that has or intends the effect of interfering with the resident’s right to quiet enjoyment, or when such targeted picketing has or intends the effect of violence or intimidation.
Keep in mind that several condo complexes were within earshot of Occupy Atlanta’s fall camp-out at Five Points in downtown Atlanta.
The measure is sponsored by state Sen. Don Balfour, R-Snellville. Protestors say at least one of their number was arrested and is awaiting a bail hearing. We’ve got a call into the Georgia Building Authority for details.
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After eight years in the Legislature, state Sen. Greg Goggans, R-Douglas, chairman of the State Insurance and Labor Committee, has decided not to run for re-election, citing the economics of his orthodontic practice in southwest Georgia. From the Blackshear Times:
“This is a very important decision for someone running in the Seventh Senatorial District. It is the largest district in the state covering 4,500 square miles. To serve this district requires a tremendous amount of time away from family and from business. It requires a lot of travel. The expenses are beyond what the $17,000 a year salary covers.
“By announcing my decision now, it will give potential candidates the time to discuss this important decision with their families and to examine their abilities to make it work.”
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The AJC’s Politifact Georgia this morning challenges GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s assertion that the nation’s unemployment rate is going down because more people are giving up and leaving the workforce.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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196 comments Add your comment
liberalefty
February 29th, 2012
11:26 am
uga
sniff sniff…hehehehe
UGA 1999
February 29th, 2012
11:26 am
liberalefty……Great POST! Great job President Bush on the auto bailouts! We miss you President Bush!
liberalefty
February 29th, 2012
11:28 am
RICKY BOBBY SANITORIUM…i’m for giving AMERICANS real jobs…thats why i was against the auto bailout…..lol..
liberalefty
February 29th, 2012
11:29 am
uga 1999
we know the repubs wont win MICHIGAN…lol
liberalefty
February 29th, 2012
11:30 am
RICKY BOBBY SANITORIUM…women youre womb belongs to me…and GOD…but mostly to me
liberalefty
February 29th, 2012
11:31 am
RICKY BOBBY SANITORIUM…I CAINT STAND UPPITY OBAMA…
liberalefty
February 29th, 2012
11:32 am
ricky bobby sanitorium….if i’m president masturbation will become illegal…god dont want u wasting your seeds..
DannyX
February 29th, 2012
11:33 am
“We miss you President Bush!”
To bad Bush had to go into self imposed exile. Any chance on getting him to end his exile early so he can hit the campaign trail? Although at this point Obama doesn’t need the help.
honested
February 29th, 2012
11:36 am
DannyX,
Yep, I’m hopin’ shrub makes an endorsement before Super Tuesday.
Just endorse them all and see the lowest turnout in a century!
UGA 1999
February 29th, 2012
11:42 am
DannyX…You call retirement…exile, that is great.
View From Midtown
February 29th, 2012
11:44 am
Hmm.. SB 469 sounds like it could be an effective tool to deal with the radical Christianist wingnuts that always protest Pride. Thanks GOP!!
Emily Fountaine
February 29th, 2012
11:46 am
Good for Thurston Howell, I prefer him over the rabid christian.
Becky
February 29th, 2012
11:46 am
Word on the street is shrub hasn’t been sober for a day since he was shown the door. We know he isn’t getting speaking engagement invites. All the wood is chopped, all the brush cleared, nothing else to do. Maybe he will buy another baseball team since that turned out so well last time.
liberalefty
February 29th, 2012
11:47 am
GEORGE “THE SHRUB” BUSH is about as popular with the GOP as a black man at a klan meeting…
Emily Fountaine
February 29th, 2012
11:47 am
Wet dreams are man-slaughter under a Sanctorum regime.
liberalefty
February 29th, 2012
11:49 am
RICKY BOBBY SANITORIUM says to women, ” your soul may belong to GOD but your womb belongs to me!
UGA 1999
February 29th, 2012
11:49 am
President Bush is something Hussein will never be…..”A two term President”.
Becky
February 29th, 2012
11:50 am
Emily-ha ha. I too watched countdown last night and loved the Thurston Howell bit.
Emily Fountaine
February 29th, 2012
11:50 am
GW:”Rarely is the question asked, is our children learning?”
liberalefty
February 29th, 2012
11:51 am
RICKY BOBBYSANITORIUM says wet dreams ARE destroying AMERICA …wet dreams and college education
liberalefty
February 29th, 2012
11:51 am
uga
yeah OSAMA looooved him some SHRUB…LOL
UGA 1999
February 29th, 2012
11:52 am
And Iran loves them some Hussein.
ole gal
February 29th, 2012
11:54 am
If you weren’t scared spitless in the past, you should be now. Of all the jack-booted bills that have had a free pass in the Ga Legislature, HB469 may be the worst violation of your freedom this session. Joining the roll of infamous Republican moves, the right of free assembly has been stomped into the ground — now, it will be a felony for a union to picket an unfair employer, a felony for a private citizen to publicly protest an out of control legislature, an unjust law or act. Gathering together to make yourself heard in opposition to the status quo has always been a perilous business but the Constitution protected us. In Georgia today, that protection is gone. What is going to be next? Free Speech — already under attack, Privacy – almost gone – Unwarrented Search — under attack.
You know, even if you are sitting around pickin your teeth and thinking what a good thing this Bill is for gettin rid of them pesky pinko liberals and gettin them into the jailhouse where they belong, one of these days you may like find yourself on the pointed end of the bayonette, say at your next Tea Party. Good luck boys and girls and remember — you did it to yourself.
Becky
February 29th, 2012
11:59 am
ole gal-the one about prescriptions? what is wrong with that?
liberalefty
February 29th, 2012
12:01 pm
UGA
OK, BIG DEAL…at least HUSSEIN hasnt let AMERICA get attacked like THE SHRUB did…lolololololo
Travis McGee
February 29th, 2012
12:03 pm
There will be a “State-Wide I.Q. Test” on Super Tuesday. The stated will be exposed to the country as a bunch of idiot bumpkins if it gives Gingrich a victory, resurrecting a campaign that’s on Sheldon Adelson life support.
Michael
February 29th, 2012
12:04 pm
Well, that’s unconstitutional.
UGA 1999
February 29th, 2012
12:05 pm
liberalefty…>WOW you have no idea about history or current events do you?
Becky
February 29th, 2012
12:06 pm
You know, how is Noot, being a god fearing catholic and all, justifying taking Adelson’s dirty money from casinos? What will the payback be? He knows he will never be POTUS. So what is in it for him?
Carole
February 29th, 2012
12:06 pm
UGA 1999
Obama is not black. Nice try though.
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So he was a WHITE guy sitting in a black liberation church for 20 years? That’s why your side says when they aren’t calling him a Muslim. Fascinating.
DannyX
February 29th, 2012
12:06 pm
“You know, even if you are sitting around pickin your teeth and thinking what a good thing this Bill is for gettin rid of them pesky pinko liberals and gettin them into the jailhouse where they belong,…”
Yep, the Georgia Republican communists hate the Constitution. The Georgia Republican communists hate freedom, especially the right to protest. Of course the Georgia Republican communists love one party rule. The Georgia Republican communists hate our free press. Our Georgia Republican communist leaders spend a lot of time in China. Our Republican communists love Chinese style environmental policy, none.
UGA 1999
February 29th, 2012
12:06 pm
Travis….Really. Gingrich has done great in the debates and is responsible for balancing the budget during the Clinton years. I don’t think he will win, but I understand the people that vote for him.
liberalefty
February 29th, 2012
12:09 pm
uga
i enuff history to know BUSHY BOY couldnt protect AMERICA….duuuuuuhhhh
liberalefty
February 29th, 2012
12:10 pm
carole
yeah the racist say OBAMA isnt black when the argument dont suit them…lol
Becky
February 29th, 2012
12:16 pm
I ponder what the clown car occupants will do when the election is over in November.
Romney will buy an island and live there.
Santorum will have to help raise all his children, I guess he will not have to worry with funding their college education. lol
Noot-will be shopping for jewelry everyday but may be at Sams or Costco when the money train is gone.
Paul-will be sitting on his porch smoking a doobie.
UGA 1999
February 29th, 2012
12:16 pm
liberalefty….Really Clinton could have killed Osama. Why didn’t he?
liberalefty
February 29th, 2012
12:16 pm
THE SHRUB couldnt protect AMERICA, like OBAMA is doing…that makes conservatives mad…hehehr
UGA 1999
February 29th, 2012
12:16 pm
liberalefty…Not racist but rather accurate. Obama is not black.
liberalefty
February 29th, 2012
12:17 pm
uga1999 12:16
jeez why dont u aks CLINTON….DUUUUUUHHHHHH, …..DUUUUHHHH….LOLOL.OLO
UGA 1999
February 29th, 2012
12:18 pm
February 26, 1993, attack on the World Trade Center: 6 deaths and 1,042 injured,
* April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing: 168 deaths and over 800 injured,
* June 25, 1996, Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia: 20 deaths and 372 injured,
* August 7, 1998, attacks on American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania: 12 U.S. deaths out of a total of 223 deaths; 12 U.S. injured out of a total of over 4,000 injured,
* October 12, 2000, attack on the USS Cole in Yemen: 17 deaths; 39 injured.
ALL UNDER DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP.
liberalefty
February 29th, 2012
12:18 pm
UGA
HES BLACK..HE LOOKS LIKE A TYPICAL BLACK guy…hehehehehe…
UGA 1999
February 29th, 2012
12:18 pm
liberalefty…..Is that ebonics again? “aks”? HAHAHA
UGA 1999
February 29th, 2012
12:19 pm
liberalefty…..”Looks like the typical black guy”….Now who is racist? Why don’t you tell us all what the “typical black guy” looks like? This should be good.
liberalefty
February 29th, 2012
12:19 pm
uga
what does that have to do with the fact that THE SHRUB couldnt protect AMERICA.???????/…
UGA 1999
February 29th, 2012
12:20 pm
liberalefty…..He did. It was Clinton that left America vulnerable.
liberalefty
February 29th, 2012
12:20 pm
UGA
EBONICS is good at wading through your bs…JUST AKS anybody…hehehehre
liberalefty
February 29th, 2012
12:21 pm
uga
the typical black guy looks like OBAMA…duh…
Carole
February 29th, 2012
12:22 pm
liberalefty
carole
yeah the racist say OBAMA isnt black when the argument dont suit them…lol
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Yeah I know. That’s why I like to point out the inconsistencies in what they say. I mean really. They have become the party of masters of mud slinging. They will throw anything out there and hope that it sticks. Unfortunately there are so many people on their side who don’t even bother to assess what they say to see if it makes sense.
liberalefty
February 29th, 2012
12:22 pm
uga 12:20
BUSH will forever be known as the fool who couldnt protect AMERICA…..sooooooooooooorrrrrrrrryyyy
DannyX
February 29th, 2012
12:23 pm
“Not racist but rather accurate. Obama is not black”
But, Michelle Obama is, right UGA? When you called her an ape on this blog a few weeks ago you were making that quite clear in your own racist way.