Tag: politics

By Tom Baxter The death of former U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, a little more than a month after the death of former U.S. Sen. Max Cleland, brings this political year to a somber close. It’s tempting to say their passage marked the end of an era, but truthfully that era is already well behind us. […]

The last thing he wanted to do, former Sen. David Perdue told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution last week, was run a campaign. Yet here he is.

Considering how long the political world of Georgia has been waiting for Stacey Abrams to show her hand, she picked a curious day to announce that she’s in the 2022 governor’s race.

By Tom Baxter If there wasn’t so much riding on it, next year’s secretary of state race would be great fun to watch. Between the two parties, the race has all kinds of storylines, with no certainty about where they all lead, except that the outcome will have a big impact on people’s confidence that […]

Politics in Georgia has some jagged edges, which reveal themselves when the maps are redrawn. Some of Democratic U.S. Rep. David Scott’s voters will be represented by Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on the congressional map approved at the close of the General Assembly’s special session Monday. Voters in increasingly blue north Fulton County will be sharing a congressional seat with voters in Dawson County.

t isn’t just the sports section that gives us cause to celebrate. State revenues are through the roof, with overall tax collections rising 30 percent in September and 23 percent in October. Revenue collections have increased by $1.36 billion over last year. That’s on top of the $4.8 billion in COVID relief funds the state has left to dole out, and a projected $11 billion from the federal infrastructure bill.

He came and he chopped. But on a night when the Braves were riding high, former President Donald Trump’s visit to Truist Park for the fourth game of the World Series didn’t draw that much attention.

By Tom Baxter When you think about who in recent Georgia political history Stacey Abrams can be compared to, one unexpected name rises like a giant balloon above the rest. Like Abrams, Newt Gingrich was the upstart leader of a movement bent on toppling the state’s political establishment. Like her, Gingrich gained national prominence before […]

By the time the General Assembly convenes in a couple of weeks, legislatures around the country will be fully engaged in the struggle between turf protection and political overreach that we call redistricting. What we can tell from what’s been going on elsewhere is that even when states change the rules to depoliticize the process of drawing political maps, it’s proving very hard to do.