GOP challenger wants Don Balfour gone as rules chairman
Travis Bowden, one of two GOP challengers to state Sen. Don Balfour of Snellville, shows us where that race is headed. He wants Balfour’s Senate colleagues to dump him from his leadership position. From a press release this afternoon:
Don Balfour is Chairman on the Senate’s Rules Committee, a group of Senators that decides which bills can be voted on by the Georgia Senate. Balfour has recently come under scrutiny by the media and the Senate Ethics Committee for violating Georgia Reimbursement laws. There are several instances of Balfour filing expenses for regular Georgia State Senate business when he was out of town.
“Senator Balfour has been Rules Committee Chairman for ten years, but he has never created the Subcommittee that will review legislative expenses,” Bowden said. “It’s suspicious that Senator Balfour would submit these false reports knowing they would not be audited. Since Senator Balfour has violated Georgia law, the Senate itself is out of order and our taxpayer dollars are being spent without any kind of oversight. We need to stop Don Balfour from writing himself a blank check with our money.”
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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Going Right
June 6th, 2012
9:32 am
hiram;
I don’t wish to get into a protracted discussion about semantics, however, suffice to say I was reared in a time when there was no references to picking onions. the common terminology was “harvesting.” In the contemporary word of today, with PC and grammar being re-written to salve the sensibilities of some, it is probably correct in modern speech to say that onions can be picked more so than harvested. Rather than say you are wrong and I am right (no pun intended here), I will say that we both are right, no, excuse me, correct. No argument from me.
hiram
June 6th, 2012
9:32 am
@td
You are a prime example of Georgia’s broken education system. Again, this can be traced back to the war – cause and effect…
td
June 6th, 2012
9:33 am
hiram
June 6th, 2012
9:07 am
You are not telling the whole story. You are not telling us how these union workers are highly skilled and educated and how there labor forces are less then the ones in America.
I have been a member of a union at two different jobs I have held. I can not justify either of them.
If you want to blame someone then you need to blame the union movement of the past for insisting on tying itself to only one party and for actively making the other party the enemy. When that party loses then the union has lost.
hiram
June 6th, 2012
9:34 am
@going right
You are the one who brought it up. BTW, you didn’t have to tell me that you are from South Ga.. I figured that out from your first sentence.
Mark M.
June 6th, 2012
9:36 am
Galloway:
Where is you daily “Bash-’em” column? Don’t tell me that it takes that much time to lick your wounds!
td
June 6th, 2012
9:36 am
hiram
June 6th, 2012
9:32 am
@td
You are a prime example of Georgia’s broken education system. Again, this can be traced back to the war – cause and effect
What BS are you spewing? You bash the education system in Georgia and at the same time refuse to have an intellectual conversation. Now tell me again about a broken education system. What a freaking joke.
DannyX
June 6th, 2012
9:38 am
“Now how looks like the fool?”
Well you do td, it’s ‘Now WHO looks the fool,’ not “how,” how foolish. And those $75 an hour assembly jobs are in Germany! Hey, you can get $14 an hour in Chattanooga!
I see you skipped the parts of Hiram’s post that totally destroyed your fantasy. In Germany labor unions get a seat on the board of every single publicly traded company, by law.
Going Right
June 6th, 2012
9:38 am
My GOD! I didn’t realize who I was blogging with here, hirum! You’d give the old Johnny Carson’s “Carnack” a run for his money. I wish I could get hold you and see about some good picks for stocks and investments! Geez. A real “seer.” and know-it-all! WOW.
Faaarrr Right
June 6th, 2012
9:45 am
Danny-X, that must explain why Delta sent 23 extra jumbo jets to Milwaukee this morning to handle the overload of passengers (the W.E.A.C. members and union thugs) booking permanent on-way flights to Berlin’s Tegel Airport.
hiram
June 6th, 2012
9:52 am
td,
You should take the time to research the role that unions played in the rise of the middle class in this country. While you’re at it, you may want to research working conditions prior to the exsistence of unions(my grandfather, at the age of 9, was wacked on the wrist with a stick for talking to one of his fellow child workers in a textile mill, and that was mild compared to the fate of children working in the coal mines.. I witnessed, first hand, the protracted campaign that was waged against unions in the southern textile mills(by the Northern owners, who moved South to exploit Southerners). You are a testimate to the generations of Southerners have been brainwashed.
BTW, many of those union auto workers, that you like to hate, are from the South.
hiram
June 6th, 2012
9:57 am
@td
Do you know someone that I might have an intellectual conversation with?
A Conservative Voice
June 6th, 2012
9:59 am
@hiram
June 6th, 2012
9:21 am
@ conservative voice
My family was in Georgia when it was an English colony. I have forgotten more about this state’s history than you will ever know, and trust me, ignorance isn’t bliss. You are a prime example of that.
To hiram – And you’re a “Union Worker” – I may be “Ignorant” about a lot of things but not about the “Harm that Collective Bargaining” has done to this country. Unions singlehandedly bankrupted General Motors and wiped out the wealth of many, many Americans. And BTW, wth does Georgia State History have to do with anything??????
Primary challenger wants Balfour out as Rules Chairman | Georgia Tipsheet
June 6th, 2012
10:05 am
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D man
June 6th, 2012
10:10 am
Walkers win in WI is just another strong sign that the end of rule is near for the Democrats in Washington. Americans who are swing voters have seen what “hope and change” really means for America. A total mess…