Oconee County, GA Politics

Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton in one of more than 5,000 photos taken during her tenure. From left to right: Unidentified, Phillip Martin, chief Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, Secretary Norton, C. Bryant Rogers, outside counsel for Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, and Jack Abramoff. The photo was taken February 5, 2002. [Credit Photo: Tami A. Heilemann]

The longer the President stonewalls Americans about his ties to Abramoff, the worse it will get for Republicans down ticket. Most Americans want Bush to reveal lobbyist ties: poll - Yahoo! News

Senator Sheehan has a nice alliterative ring to it. Sheehan Considers Challenging Feinstein - Yahoo! News

http://www.democrats.com/we-can-stop-alito The last two days have been amazing. Early Thursday afternoon, we broke the news that Senator John Kerry would lead a filibuster against Judge Sam Alito if he could get 41 Senators to sustain the filibuster. Three hours later, CNN confirmed our story. Naturally, the White House freaked out and told Senator Bill Frist to schedule a cloture vote as quickly as possible - Monday at 4:30 p.m. - to prevent Democrats from uniting behind Kerry. Then the White House called its media whores at the NY Times (David Kirkpatrick), AP (Jesse Holland), Pentagon Post (Charles Babington), CNN (Miles O'Brien), and MSNBC (Chris Matthews) and told them to trash John Kerry for daring to challenge the will of Emperor Bush, and to repeat over and over that Democrats did not have enough votes to stop Alito. But even as Karl Rove was doing his dirty work, progressive activists like you were calling your Senators urging them to support John Kerry's filibuster. A...

Governor Perdue, are you listening, or at least reading this letter? OnlineAthens.com | Letters to the Editor | Laura Davis: Photo reflected problem with Athens Tech space 01/28/06

I am happy that the homeless shelters will not be cloising at the end of January as originally reported. These are worthy facilities to be supporting. OnlineAthens.com | News | Donations will keep homeless shelters open 01/28/06

I love the Rankin Foundation and think it is a great tribute to the former congressmember to fund scholarships for women who would not otherwise be attneding college or getting a higher education. Please consider donating money or attending this event. OnlineAthens.com | News | Rankin Foundation marking anniversary 01/28/06

It is sad when a nice new public facility gets (allegedly) torched so soon after it has opened up. Remember the Titans! OnlineAthens.com | News | Fire set at school in Oconee 01/28/06

OnlineAthens.com | News | ACTION ends fight for Head Start 01/27/06

Wow, we are getting noticed outside of the 316 area. Thanks to one of my favorite Republican non-partisan elected officials for turning me on to this. Here I did not even know I was the forefront of a movement. Netroots? Cool, like grass roots on the web. Netroots vs. Establishment in Athens | ATLANTA.VOIC.US

Southern Broadcasting news director Tim Bryant admitted on his show Newsmaker Fridays on NewsTalk 1340 WGAU AM that he signed a petition using the fictious name of Jed Bartlet. That name is of course the Martin Sheen-portrayed Presidentiual character from the recently cancelled NBC television show "The West Wing." His name was immediately deleted from the poll. Having gone over the 1300+ names I can attest that less than 1% are suspicious or from out of country. Bryant also seemed to take issue with the age of one of the signees, a 6 year old girl who is a neighbor of his. I commend the 6 year old girl for taking such an activist stance against Republican redistricting efforts.

Seems like the folks in Madison County folks did not ask to be redistricted either. OnlineAthens.com | News | No new remap bid by county 01/27/06

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I just came back from a meeting, not one publicized in the newspapers, but an important one none-the-less. This meeting was at the new remote location of the Welcome Center on Nancy Drive in a building leased for the next decade from the Chamber of Commerce. Ever since the Welcome Center moved to there from the old Eagle Tavern site, tourism has suffered dramatically in our county. Members of the historic sites and tourism committee received Anita Ford's graduate thesis on the marketing and structure of Oconee County's pathetic tourism attempts. Anita does as much as she can, with an able staff of one in Ginny McCown, with almost no significant advertising budget and now well off the beaten path of Main Street. We need to promote Oconee County in creative and original manners to as wide a audience around the world as possible. We do get a story here and an ad there, but we need some big government budgets to really make Oconee County, Georgia known around the world. We will be ...

Hell yeah! Democrats ride momentum into mid-term election - Yahoo! News

Bauer Says, 'Stop Subsidizing Terrorist States' - Yahoo! News

Looks like our leader fears the political fallout from being seen with someone as nefarious as Abramoff. Bush refuses to release Abramoff pictures - Yahoo! News

The city of Watkinsville will conduct an hour-long work session to gather and refine ideas and concepts to celebrate this year's beicentennial. This informal session is open to any and all interested individuals who desire to participate in planning for the city's 200th anniversary. You are cordially invited to attend 7:00 pm Tuesday, January 31st to the Watkinsville Community Center on VFW Drive. If you have ideas, but are unable to attend, please send your ideas to City Hall via email to wkvcityhall@charter.net or mail to PO Box 27, Watkinsville, GA 30677 (ATTN: BICENTENNIAL)