Month: March 2010
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Watchdog wants DOJ to investigate Deal
ATLANTA – A watchdog group is asking the Department of Justice to open a criminal investigation into former U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal, R-Ga., who resigned this month to run for governor. In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) alleges Deal “improperly used his position in Congress…
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Former legislator Schaefer killed in murder-suicide
The GBI is investigating a Friday night murder-suicide involving a former member of the state legislature. Authorities say Nancy Schaefer’s husband, Bruce, shot her in the back before shooting himself in the chest. “The investigation so far and the autopsy results from late this afternoon have not uncovered any evidence to indicate it is anything…
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Perdue moving forward with lawsuit against feds
ATLANTA – Gov. Sonny Perdue is planning to move forward with a lawsuit against the federal government over the controversial health care bill, a number of media outlets, including The Associated Press, reported. Perdue is moving forward even though Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker said he wouldn’t file such an action. “I think in this…
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AG Baker won’t sue feds over health care
ATLANTA – Georgia’s attorney general won’t sue the federal government over the controversial health care bill President Obama signed into law yesterday. Attorney General Thurbert Baker, a Democrat, announced his decision in a letter to Republican Gov. Sonny Perdue, who had urged the state’s top lawyer to file the lawsuit. Nationally, more than a dozen…
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Enola Gay navigator addresses high school students in Jefferson
Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk, the navigator of the Enola Gay, address Jefferson High School students on Monday, the Athens Banner-Herald. At 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945, during the closing weeks of World War II, the Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb on a city. The blast produced a mushroom cloud and killed 140,000…
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Ga. political notebook: Isakson hospitalized
ATLANTA – U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., was hospitalized Monday after “feeling ill and being dehydrated,” his office said today. “Senator Isakson woke up yesterday feeling ill and very dehydrated, and he was admitted to Northside Hospital to receive fluids and undergo tests,” Isakson spokeswoman Joan Kirchner said in a statement. “Doctors believe Senator Isakson…
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House passes health care bill, Georgia among states opposing mandate
The U.S. House last night passed a controversial health care bill by a vote of 219-212, and the measure now goes to President Obama for his signature. The president is expected to sign the bill on Tuesday at the earliest. “This bill not only doesn’t help, but in fact makes matters worse,” Rep. Phil Gingrey,…
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House set to vote on health care bill
The U.S. House is set to pass a health care bill, even as thousands of critics rallied in opposition to the controversial measure. “Here in the real world, it will add to our already reckless levels of debt and put our nation on an even faster course toward fiscal ruin,” Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., said…
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Boehner: ‘Yes’ vote is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions
House Republican Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, says that “a ‘yes’ vote on the Democrats’ health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions.” “The law of the land trumps any Executive Order, which can be reversed or altered at the stroke of a pen by this or any subsequent President without any congressional approval or…
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Price: House ignores people’s wishes
The people have been ignored in the House of Representatives, U.S. Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., says. “It’s clear the thousands of Americans who descended upon the Capitol yesterday to protest this bill were completely ignored by Speaker Pelosi and her allies,” Price said in a news release. “Democrats will soon have one last chance to…