GOP runoff in PSC race prompts a split among Christian conservatives

GOP runoff in PSC race prompts a split among Christian conservatives

Ethics complaints tail 2 seeking statewide offices || OnlineAthens.com

I cannot emphasize how detrimental I think it would be for Georgians to elect - yet alone nominate - either Tim Echols for Public Service Commission or Ralph Hudgens for Insurance Commissioner

Ethics complaints tail 2 seeking statewide offices || OnlineAthens.com

At Oconee stop, Deal stresses qualifications || OnlineAthens.com

At Oconee stop, Deal stresses qualifications || OnlineAthens.com

Watkinsville City Council agenda for meeting Wednesday

AGENDA

CITY OF WATKINSVILLE

August 11, 2010

CALL TO ORDER



QUORUM CHECK



WATKINSVILLE BEAUTIFUL YARD AWARD PRESENTATION



MINUTES
1. July 14, 2010



APPEARANCES
1. Maria Reese – business license – Definitely Handmade by Maria Reese – 54 N Main Street
2. Michelle Thomas – business license – Peddler’s Wagon, LLC – 17 S Main Street
3. Bryan Dobbs – business license – Subway – 2 S Main Street, Suite 106
4. L. C. Givens – variance request – construct 20’x30’ pole barn - 1460 Greensboro Highway



ADMINISTRATION
1. July 31, 2010 Reconciliation Reports – General Fund and SPLOST



MAYOR’S REPORT



CITIZEN’S COMMENTS



OLD BUSINESS
1. Public Hearing: Define Portrait Studio and add as conditional use to Simonton Bridge Road Scenic
Corridor
2. Consider Conditional Use Permit for 68 Whitehall Road
3. Consider Business License for McClure Studio at 68 Whitehall Road



NEW BUSINESS
1. Set 2010 Millage Rate
2. ______________________________________________________________________



ADJOURN

Handel Stops in Watkinsville

45 years ago

Friend -- On March 7th, 1965, 600 of us lined up to walk from Selma to Montgomery, to march for voting rights. When we tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge over the Alabama River, we were met by state troopers. They attacked us with tear gas, bullwhips, and nightsticks. It became known as Bloody Sunday, and the national outcry over the brutality that day led to the enactment, exactly 45 years ago today, of the Voting Rights Act. The progress we've made since then is remarkable. But the expansion of voting rights for millions did not happen overnight. It was the product of a continued struggle, by many people, over many years. And just as change did not come easily then, it does not come easily now. Discrimination still exists in America -- its effects can be as harmful as they were decades ago. And we can always become a better, more just society. Two years ago, this movement -- led by Barack Obama -- brought millions of people into the political process for the first time. I'm told that many of you are working hard now to get as many as possible of those folks -- and others from across the country who are with us in these fights -- to the polls this year. It's an important effort, and the legacy of the fight for the Voting Rights Act is that it is not only our right to vote, and to help others do so -- it is our duty. Can I count on you to help out between now and the elections in November? When I was a child, I tasted the bitter fruits of racial discrimination -- and I did not like it. That was what spurred me to act. In those early days, we sacrificed our very selves for our rights as Americans. But we never gave up. And now barriers that kept an entire people from full participation in this country have been removed. No longer are people who look like me met with violence when we register to vote. No longer is the idea that an African American could become president just a dream. We live in a better world, a better country. But our work is not complete. We cannot wait for someone else to make change. We must all do it. You must do it. I must do it. Please sign up to help millions more vote: http://my.barackobama.com/VolunteerVRA Thank you, Representative John Lewis

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Your morning jolt: Nathan Deal points to Karen Handel's lack of a college degree | Political Insider

Your morning jolt: Nathan Deal points to Karen Handel's lack of a college degree | Political Insider

Dr. Paul Broun is running scared

if his latest mailer is any indication - the underlines are his and it came from Washington (Dulles, Virginia)

Fwd: CCDC: HQ and DPG info from the Chair

Begin forwarded message:

Resent-From: ccdcnm1@clarkedemocrats.com

From: Karen Solheim <ksolheim@oconeeschools.org>

Date: August 6, 2010 11:26:30 AM EDT

To: ccdcnm1@clarkedemocrats.com

Subject: CCDC: HQ and DPG info from the Chair

Dear CCDC members,

 

Please see the email below from CCDC Chair Jenny Penney Oliver.

A lot is happening this political season.

 

Attached is a CCDC HQ Grand Opening flyer (in a couple different formats) to send out to your email contacts and make copies of to distribute to your friends and relatives!  :)

 

Sincerely,

Karen Solheim

CCDC Vice Chair for Communications

===========================

Dear Committee -- 
      We have a very exciting week ahead, and I hope you are making plans to be involved! 

      On Thursday, August 12, from 5-7, our committee is hosting the GRAND OPENING of our Democractic Headquarters located at 1063 Baxter Street (behind Elephant Trunk, near Just Pho-- just look for our great sign!)  The committee has arranged some wonderful food (compliments of many of our local Athens vendors), an official ribbon cutting, and brief remarks to help launch this phase of the election season. 

      And then beginning Friday, August 13,  Democrats from around the state will be in Athens for the DPG annual State Convention.  You've seen an email from Karen about a BBQ and movie scheduled for Friday evening with the convention beginning Saturday morning at the Classic Center.  Your help at the convention is needed (pls contact Karen), and then Saturday afternoon all of the community is invited to attend the 'speeches' by our Democratic slate!  It would be so great to have our local Committee there in full force (wear your CCDC tshirts -- You can buy one Thursday at the Grand Opening!)

     Please help us have a wonderful week of events by attending yourself and sending the notice below to your friends and colleagues!  I look forward to seeing you, and am most appreciative of your commitment to the work of the Clarke County Democratic Committee!

                                                                       Best to all,  Jenny


   You're invited  

       to our

GRAND OPENING!

Join the Clarke County

Democratic Committee at our new

HEADQUARTERS

Thursday, August 12

5-7 p.m.

1063 Baxter Street, Suite B

Athens, GA

 

  Join us for refreshments as we look ahead to how we can ensure  Democratic victories in Georgia!

--
Jenny Penney Oliver, Ph.D.

oliverjennypenney@gmail.com

Oconee Farmers Market

Just try to make it before it gets too damn hot

Woven brightly, 

Daniel J. Matthews, Jr.

---

From: oconeefm@yahoo.com
Subject: Oconee Farmers Market
To: oconeefm@yahoo.com

This week we will have cinnamon rolls, fresh homemade breads, sourdough bread, pretzels, bagels and biscotti as well as granola. There will be homemade cakes and assorted pastries as well as Blueberry Pie, Peach Pie, Sweet Potato Pie, Pecan Pie, banana-nut bread, delicious pound cakes, snickerdoodle cookies, apple-pecan muffins and Whoopie Pies. We will have fresh locally grown herbs, homegrown tomatoes, eggplant, cucumbers,  fresh corn, okra, peaches, blueberries, melons, garlic, potatoes, radishes, purple hull peas, bell peppers, jalapeno peppers, various sweet and hot peppers, figs, sprouts, basil, green onions, squash, yellow onions and boiled or fried peanuts and pork skins. Maryanne Simmons will be here with her homegrown tomatoes. Fresh made jams and jellies. Homemade soaps and fresh lamb. Woolens from locally raised sheep. Don't forget about our farm fresh eggs and Johnson Dairy Milk. We will have ornamental plants, transplant-able vegetables, blooming perennials and annuals, hanging baskets, potted flowers and fresh cut flowers as well as day lilies and blooms. Head of the Meadow Farms will be selling grass fed beef. *At 10am, 10 Signs and Gourmet's Jamie Swedberg will hold another of a weekly series of cooking demonstrations, this week she will make Spring Rolls. They will also be serving Cafe Campesino coffee, which is locally roasted in Georgia and is 100% organic, shade grown and fair trade. Come watch and sample the results.* So come on out and pick up some locally grown, fresh goodness. Don't forget to tell a friend or neighbor. Karl Berg 706-215-7385 www.oconeefarmersmarket.org and http://www.apvoc.com/

Endorsements play a role in gov runoff || OnlineAthens.com

If there was a BBQ at the Oconee County Courthouse last night, I did not see it. I did see some food around a table, but did not stop to sample it
Endorsements play a role in gov runoff || OnlineAthens.com

Hice campaign 'not a crusade' || OnlineAthens.com

Please do not vote for this dangerous theocrat who is not going to do a damn thing for our state or country

Hice campaign 'not a crusade' || OnlineAthens.com

Karen Handel embraces Oconee County

illegal campaign signs within 150 feet of polling place

Former Georgia Secretary of State and Fulton County Chair Karen Handel brought her Republican run off campaign for Governor to a crowd of about 60 people in the upstairs courtroom of the Oconee County Courthouse in Watkinsville Thursday evening. Handel was introduced by Oconee County chair G. Melvin Davis.

Davis detailed his working with Handel while she was chair of Fulton County Board of Commissioners in 2003. Handel thanked Davis and recognized various members of the audience as well.

The Oconee Reigonal Republican Women hosted the event and local party chair Jay Hanley made some announcements prior to the main event.

Among the more surprising attendees at this event were Oconee County Tourism Director Peggy Holcomb, who (formerly?) was a Democratic party devotee, and Western Circuit Judge David Sweat.  Some of the more predictable attendees included the Republican nominee for the 113th House seat in Hank Huckabee, Oconee County Board of Education member Kim Argo and Bishop city council member Nedra Johnson as well as two term 46th district State Senator Bill Cowsert.

State Senator Bill Cowsert

Among other things from her stump speech, the Washington, DC born Handel addressed her writing a check to the Log Cabin Republicans and took questions from the audience.  She spoke passionately about wanting to make government small and how she has been a conservative all her life. While never mentioning her opponent by name, she did make inferences of former Democratic Congressman's convenient conversion to the Republican side of life as being politically expedient.

Hank Huckaby and Peggy Holcomb

Watkinsville City Council member Samantha Purcell attended and wanted to ask her a question about teachers, but could not last as long as the event continued. Handel repeated her Christian values, and she allowed that abortion should be allowed in the case of rape and incest.

I think she misspoke when she said illegal aliens should be the only ones allowed to vote (probably meaning to say legal aliens).

Handel claimed to have been underestimated her entire life and detailed how she wanted to have a family and left an abusive family situation at age 17 to work her way up to the Bush-Quayle White House, where she worked for Vice President Qualye's wife Marilyn to promote breast cancer awareness.

She parked her big coach on Main Street in Watkinsville after appearing at the arches in Athens. Tomorrow her opponent Nathan Deal will make an appearance in Watkinsville.

Just saw Karen Handel being interviewed by Blake Aued of the Athens Banner-Herald in front of the UGA arch with a dozen students looking very sweaty

New Campaign Headquarters!!!

Woven brightly,

Daniel J. Matthews, Jr.

---

From: carol@carolporter4ga.com
To: danmatt@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 13:08:16 -0400
Subject: New Campaign Headquarters!!!

Dear DanIf you are one of Carol's Facebook fans you already know our terrific news; we have a great new campaign headquarters! We have 4000 square feet of space, conveniently located right off the 10th & 14th St. Exit off of 75/85. It is in Midtown Atlanta and our street address is 1080 Spring St., on the corner of 12th and Spring St. If you're in the area you should see the yard signs and the big banner is coming soon. We plan to move in as soon as the phone lines are connected and we will keep you updated. Be thinking of any furniture that you may have in your basement, attic, or storage shed because we need desks, chairs, and sofas for all of our staff and volunteers. Once we get everything set up, we will send out another email so that if you're able, you can come by and help us Call for Carol. Thanks, Carol Porter for Georgia P.S. – For all of you who have already donated to the campaign and helped to make this possible, thank you. As you know, we are gearing up for the General so please feel free to donate.     Visit www.carolporter4ga.com to learn more about the campaign.

Paid for by Carol Porter for Georgia

P.O. Box 54009
Atlanta, GA 30308

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Back to School in Oconee Co - WGAU Local News on 1340wgau.com

Saw the buses breezing by this morning and strange faces in my neighborhood with mothers clicking pictures of their kids. Be careful out there.
Back to School in Oconee Co - WGAU Local News on 1340wgau.com

Republican run off recommendations - PSC

I cannot emphasize how dangerous it would be for all of the people of Georgia to elect Winterville resident Tim Echols to the Public Service Commission. If you desire someone who would want us to have a theocracy in our state government, then this would be the perfect person for you. Do not be fooled by his faux populist rhetoric. He is a person motivated by his bizarre religious and extremist views who was John Oxendine's campaign manager before he recognized the rats were abandoning that sinking ship.

I highly recommend voting for former State Senator John Douglas of Social Circle if you choose the Republican ballot for the run off.

Thank you for your consideration and do not support Tim Echols.

Echols faces ethics complaints in PSC race | Blogs.OnlineAthens.com

Echols faces ethics complaints in PSC race | Blogs.OnlineAthens.com

Oconee hires annex architects || OnlineAthens.com

I am going to have to agree with Mr. Luke on this one, as someone who uses a USDA meeting room in the Governmental Annex monthly, I am not certain it needs to be redone as well, although it is no architectural beauty to say the least

Oconee hires annex architects || OnlineAthens.com

Before it's delivered

Friend -- Today's the President's 49th birthday, and I just heard how many of you have signed his birthday card so far: 1,266,611 as of this morning. It's already an amazing show of support. But before the card is delivered with all of your signatures, I want to make sure you have one more chance to add your name -- I just added mine. Will you sign it with me, if you haven't already? Thanks, David Plouffe -----------------Original Message----------------- From: Michelle Obama Subject: Will you sign Barack's birthday card with me? Friend -- Every year, our family tries to come up with a fun way to wish Barack a happy birthday. And this August 4th, when he turns 49, I have something new in mind. This has been a big -- and hectic -- year for him. After signing the Affordable Care Act and Wall Street reform into law -- and completing his first year as president -- I think it's safe to say we will remember it for a long time. And I know full well how much he credits this movement, and the work of supporters like you, for the change that we've accomplished. So I'm putting together a birthday card that I would like you to sign. Together with other Organizing for America supporters -- and me, Malia, Sasha, and Bo -- we'll wish him a happy birthday and let him know that we're ready to take on the year ahead alongside him. Will you wish Barack a happy birthday with me? This year also brought a lot of surprises -- some good and some bad. Supporters like you have helped him make the best of it -- by contacting Congress to help push stalled legislation forward, by re-engaging supporters in the political process, by giving back with service projects across the country, and so much more. And while we can't know what the coming year will bring, all of us, working together, will continue pushing forward for change. Will you help make this a memorable birthday for Barack and wish him a happy 49th? http://my.barackobama.com/birthday Thanks so much, Michelle Obama

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Elder Mill.

Great video from Ian Giles and help from Dr. Russ Page

Watkinsville's Mettenberger made a roster in Kansas

I have traveled all through out Kansas, and even I have not heard of the Butler Community College Grizzlies in El Dorado, Kansas. But I am glad our one time Watkinsville quarterback has hooked on somewhere, and I hope this is a stepping stone for him getting back to Division-1 signal calling soon.
JUCO team in Kansas welcomes Mettenberger

Fwd: Perspectives 2010: Georgia Pottery Invitational

Begin forwarded message:

From: Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation <director@ocaf.com>

Date: August 4, 2010 11:00:12 AM EDT

To: danjmatt@bellsouth.net

Subject: Perspectives 2010: Georgia Pottery Invitational

Reply-To: info@ocaf.com

GEORGIA'S LARGEST ANNUAL POTTERY EVENT OVER 5,000 POTS AVAILABLE! Dear Dan, From August 28th through September 15th, Watkinsville GA will be home to the largest collection of functional pottery in the state of Georgia. Don't miss your chance to purchase from these one-of-a-kind pottery pieces created by Georgia's preeminent potters.   JERRY & KATHY CHAPPELLE POTTERY August 28 - September 15, 2010 10 AM to 5 PM Each Day Free Admission   Pottery Sale Exhibitions Demonstrations Gallery Talks Workshops Studio Tours For a complete schedule of events during Perspectives: GA Pottery Invitational click HERE!  OPENING RECEPTION & PREVIEW SALE FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 6-9 PM $5 ADMISSION/DONATION           A.J. ARGENTINA POTTERY   FREE POTTERY DEMONSTRATIONS EACH SATURDAY, 1-4 PM  AUGUST 28, A.J. ARGENTINA   All events of Perspectives 2010: GA Pottery Invitational take place at the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation (OCAF) facilities, located in historic downtown Watkinsville GA. For a detailed Google Map to the facilities, please click this LINK. To see a slideshow of participating potters or for more information about the  reception, exhibitions and other scheduled events, click HERE.   Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation 34 School Street, Watkinville GA 30677 706.769.4565 | info@ocaf.com www.ocaf.com

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Deal, Handel stump Oconee County in final days before run off

Around Oconee || OnlineAthens.com

2010-11 academic year includes new North Oconee weight room || OnlineAthens.com

While it is commendable that the Oconee County Board of Education finally found the resources to build a weight room for the North Oconee Titans, it is very sad and highly regrettable that the employees of all of the public schools will be forced to take furlough days to retain their jobs.

2010-11 academic year includes new North Oconee weight room || OnlineAthens.com