Local Republicans milk populist protest for Tea Bagging Taxes

Former Oconee County coroner and recent failed candidate for the office again Dr. William Mayberry is hosting a tea party in a tax payer funded venue in Oconee County on tax day. The Republican party seems intent on protesting President Barack Obama's attempts at spending our way out of the recession. I do not like to pay taxes anymore than any one else, but I also want our economy to get better without mortgaging our children's future. Until someone else can offer up a better prescription to what ails our country, I will continue to support our President and wish him success in our economic efforts to rebuild our country's infrastructure.

Oconee County openness long overdue - and other assorted ephemera

The Oconee County Board of Commissioners are to be commended for at least realizing the status quo of getting things done behind closed doors is no longer acceptable. It is just a little late to regain a lot of the public's trust on this or any other issue.

So the Board of Education's David Weeks is turning the old Shishkabobby's in Town Center location into a Barberitos? Now there's a stretch. It was already built like one, and the food tasted like one, so I guess he hopes families will come buy beans and gas from him.

Time for former Oconee County High School principal Mark Channell to be let go by the Central Office of the Oconee County Board of Education in the wake of the Brian Dickens sex scandal while at the head of the softball team. There needs to be a sacrificial lamb in this case before the public is satisfied.

Doug McKillip and PIZZA!

Woven brightly,

Daniel J. Matthews, Jr.

EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me

 
 Hey Young Dems,
 
 Join us this Wednesday, April 8 at 6:00 p.m. in room 250 of the Miller Learning Center for guest speaker Doug McKillip! Doug is the Democratic State Representative for District 115, which encompasses much of Athens and includes the University of Georgia campus. He'll be speaking to us about this past legislative session as well as politics under the Gold Dome. We will have PIZZA, so be sure to bring your friends!
 
 UGA YD elections are coming up soon (April 15 unless there's a conflict) and listed below are the currently declared candidates for office. We'll go over election procedures at this week's meeting.
 
 PRESIDENT
 Glenn Stegall
 Stephen Pettigrew
 
 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
 Carter Bates
 
 POLITICAL DIRECTOR
 Alex Foster
 
 COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR
 -No Declared Candidate-
 
 FINANCE DIRECTOR
 -No Declared Candidate-
 
 FIELD DIRECTOR
 -No Declared Candidate-
 
 E-mail Louis Elrod (lelrod@uga.edu) if you're interested in running for office.
 
 That's it, see you Wednesday!
 
 Louis Elrod
 President, UGA/ACC Young Democrats
 
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 ANNOUNCEMENTS
 
 NEWT SPEAKS- Former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich will be speaking tomorrow (Tuesday, April 7) at 5:00 p.m. at the UGA Law School (room TBA) in a forum hosted by the Law Republicans. If you have not already, please RSVP to UGAGingrich@gmail.com by 3:00pm today (Monday) in order to reserve your seat. Seating is based on a first-come, first-served basis.

Campus lectures of interest

Thanks to Pat Priest for letting us know about the goings-on at UGA.

 To: oconee@yahoogroups.com> From: ppriest@charter.net
 Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 14:45:52 -0400

 Subject: [oconee] Campus lectures of interest

 
 Here are some interesting lectures -- about politics, nature, the
 financial crisis, and more -- taking place in April at UGA that you
 might find interesting!
 
 Pat Priest
 Member,
 Oconee Democrats

 

 Tuesday, April 7, 2009
 
 Getzen Lecture on Government Accountability: Effective American Policy
 in a Dangerous World. Sponsored by the School of Public and
 International Affairs and the Department of Public Administration and
 Policy. Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt
 Gingrich gives the talk. 3:00 p.m. University Chapel. Contact 706-410-5182
 
 
 April 9, Thursday
 
 Annual Holmes-Hunter Lecture. Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court
 Leah Ward Sears delivers this year's lecture. The Holmes-Hunter Lecture
 honors Charlayne Hunter-Gault and the late Hamilton Holmes, who in 1961
 became the first African-American students to enroll at UGA. Lecture
 speakers focus on race relations, black history or aspects of higher
 education with implications for race relations. 3:00 p.m. UGA Chapel.
 Contact 706-542-0054, mwinston@uga.edu
 
 
 Friday, April 10
 
 Terry Leadership Speaker Series: John Jackson, President and CEO, Bank
 of Atlanta. Sponsored by the Institute for Leadership Advancement at
 Terry College of Business. John Jackson (BBA '76) has been in banking in
 Atlanta for almost 30 years and currently serves as the president and
 CEO of Bank of Atlanta, a community bank located in the midtown area. He
 started his career with Bank South, focused on retail banking, consumer
 lending, mortgage lending and commercial lending. 10:00 a.m. - 11:00
 a.m. Main Library Auditorium. Contact 706-542-9770, leadership@terry.uga.edu
 
 Wednesday, April 15, 2009
 
 Larry M. Bartels, director of Princeton University's Center for the
 Study of Democratic Politics, delivers this year's Parthemos Lecture.
 Bartels' newly published book Unequal Democracy debunks myths about
 politics in contemporary America, using the widening gap between the
 rich and the poor to shed light on the workings of American democracy.
 3:30 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. 348 Miller Learning Center. Sponsored by the
 Department of Political Science. Contact 706-542-205 
 
 
 Thursday, April 16, 2009
 
 Lecture: Making Conservation Biology Relevant- Muddlings and Reflections
 of a Fish Ecologist. Sponsored by the UGA Fisheries Society and the
 Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. Dr. Paul Angermeier,
 professor in Fisheries and Wildlife Science and assistant leader of the
 Cooperative Research Unit at Virginia Tech, gives the talk. Warnell
 Building 1, room 403. Contact delkins@uga.edu
  
 Susette M. Talarico Lecture: Current Challenges for the FBI - View from
 the General Counsel. Sponsored by the Department of Political Science
 and the Criminal Justice Program. Valerie E. Caproni (JD '79), General
 Counsel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, gives the talk. 3:30
 p.m. UGA Chapel. Contact elweeks@uga.edu 
 
 
 Friday, April 24, 2009
 
 Lecture: Last Child in the Woods, Saving our Children from
 Nature-Deficit Disorder. Sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities
 and Arts. Willson Center Distinguished Lecturer Richard Louv gives the
 talk. Seating limited. Overflow seating available with live video feed.
 4:00 p.m. 148 Miller Learning Center. Contact 706-542-3966, jdingus@uga.edu
 
 
 Monday, April 27, 2009
 
 Ramsey Lecture: The World is Fat - Fads, Trends Policies and Products
 that are Fattening the Human Race. Sponsored by the Department of
 Kinesiology and the College of Education. Barry Popkin, Carla Smith
 Chamblee Distinguished Professor of Global Nutrition at the University
 of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, gives the talk. Popkin directs the
 Interdisciplinary Center for Obesity.He has published 290 refereed
 journal articles and is the author of a new book entitled The World is
 Fat, published by Avery-Penguin Publishers in 2009. Reception at 3:30
 p.m., lecture from 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. S150 Lamar Dodd School of Art.
 Contact 706-542-4387, kcureton@uga.edu