Posts

Showing posts with the label State Senator Robert Brown

Scenes from a reapportionment hearing

Image
State Representative Doug McKillip watches proceedings at Seney Stoval Six Georgia Republican elected officials including State Representative Doug McKillip and State Senator Bill Cowsert both of Athens bravely lined up to hear the near constant berating from the best of the Northeast Georgia political people and elected officials from all sides of the political spectrum. My favorite was local Libertarian chair Doug Harmon who was easily the least represented. He just got up and said his piece and sat right back down. I missed Oconee County Board of Commissioners chair Melvin Davis' spiel, but basically the gist of what everybody said was "leave our districts alone!" State Senator Robert Brown, seated, watches Doc Eldridge at the lectern  There were plenty of other two minute or less speakers including myself, Jane Kidd, Doc Eldridge  and Keith Heard. Here are some clips of the event at the wonderfully restored Seney-Stoval Chapel of the Lucy Cobb Institute on...

Georgia statehouse Democrats try to save floundering HOPE Scholarship funding from tax and spend Republicans

Image
State Senator Jason Carter , grandson of former President Jimmy Carter and married to a former Athens Banner-Herald writer in Kate Carter , came back to the city where he got his degree along with State Senate Democratic leader Robert Brown of Macon and House Leader Stacey Evans to talk about the HOPE Scholarship yesterday. Dems push exemptions for HOPE || OnlineAthens.com http://www.redandblack.com/2011/04/05/group-wants-hope-revised/