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• Obama names Congressmen Johnson and Bishop as Georgia Co-Chairs

  Published: September 10, 2007, 5:56 pm

  Tags: Hank Johnson, Black Endorsements, Black Politics, Sanford Bishop, Obama For President, Congressional Black Caucus, 2008, Georgia Politics, Barack Obama, Politics

  and Hank Johnson as the Georgia co-chairmen of his presidential campaign. The two Democrats will play a largely ceremonial role for the campaign, helping to rally support and draw contributions. Bishop, from Columbus, said Obama is the candidate for change. “(He) is the only candidate who will challenge the conventional thinking

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• Southern Comfort

  Published: October 23, 2007, 9:43 pm

  Tags: Al Wynn, Alabama Senate Race, Artur Davis, Black Political Corruption, Black Politics, Black Endorsements, Donna Edwards, Emily S List, Georgia Politics, Harold Ford Jr, Larry Langford, Maryland, Maryland Politics, Memphis, Nikki Tinker, Politics, Race, Steve Cohen, Tennes

  help. We are talking about Georgia after all. I wonder if he takes a page out of Marion Berry’s book when his supporters ask about the rape allegation and tells them “The Bitch set me up.” Anybody who knows me knows that I enjoy Alabama politics because like all southern politics, its colorful and interesting. The

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• Justice Harold Melton, Sonny Perdue’s Colored Confederate

  Published: October 29, 2007, 7:08 pm

  Tags: Bill Clinton, Black Atlanta Movers And Shakers, Black Political Corruption, Black Politics, Clarence Thomas, Death Penalty, Eugene Talmadge, Federalist Society, Gop Wedge Issues, Genarlow Wilson, Georgia Politics, Harold Melton, Politics, Power Games, Race, Sonny Perdue

  school at the University of Georgia, he spent 11 years in the Georgia Attorney General's office, most of it under Mike Bowers, a sanctimonious, homophobic party switcher with gubernatorial ambitions who zealously persecuted gay people using Georgia's antediluvian sodomy laws while simultaneously carrying on a decade long extramarital affair with

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• Tom Joyner sends Genarlow Wilson to Morehouse College

  Published: January 10, 2008, 6:40 pm

  Tags: Genarlow Wilson, Georgia Politics, Pinstripe Klansman, Politics, Race, Tom Joyner, Tom Joyner Morning Show, Political Expediency, Punitive Punishment, Racism, Racist Prosecution, Satutory Rape

  Tom Joyner, is sending Georgia student Genarlow Wilson, the young brotha sentenced to 10 years in prison for consensual oral sex, to Morehouse College next week. God is good. Say what you wanna say about Tom, but Tom Joyner is my hero today.

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• Read

  Published: February 4, 2008, 7:37 am

  Tags: New Yorker, Georgia Politics

  incendiary, and in Georgia the consequences may be cataclysmic. According to Stephen B. Bright, the senior counsel for the Southern Center for Human Rights, in Atlanta, We are just now starting to see the ripple effect of Nichols. The question now is whether the whole thing is going to come crashing down. But here's the thing: it

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• Super Tuesday Results: Obama Wins 13 states

  Published: February 5, 2008, 7:05 pm

  Tags: 2008, Democratic Presidential Candidates, Georgia Politics, Obama For President, Obama Vs Hillary, Politics, Race, Super Tuesday

  % Del* Precincts Georgia Updated 13 minutes ago County Results Exit Poll Obama 696,622 67% 27 99% reporting   Clinton 326,354 31% 18   Edwards 17,897 2% 0   Race Status Candidate State Del.* % Del* Precincts Idaho Updated 1:46 a.m. EST, Feb 6, 2008 County Results

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• Congressman Scott defects from Hillary, Lewis on the fence

  Published: February 14, 2008, 8:48 pm

  Tags: 2008, Black Atlanta Movers And Shakers, Black Political Corruption, Black Politics, Black Endorsements, Congressional Black Caucus, David Scott, Emanuel Cleaver, Georgia Politics, Hillary, Jesse Jackson Jr, John Lewis, Obama For President, Obama Vs Hillary, Politics

  vote to Obama in the Feb. 5 Georgia primary. “Thus saith the Lord,” bold Moses said, let my people go; “if not, I’ll smite your re-election dead,” let my people go. Lewis, whose Atlanta-area district voted 3-to-1 for Obama, said he is not ready to abandon his backing for the former first lady. But several associates

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• John Lewis escapes plantation Clinton; endorses Obama

  Published: February 27, 2008, 2:41 pm

  Tags: 2008, Atlanta Politics, Barack Obama, Black Politics, Black Endorsements, Georgia Politics, Hillary, Obama For President, Obama Vs Hillary, Politics, Race, Black Bourgeoisie, Black Consensus, Black Voters, Political Expediency

  first sparked outrage from Georgia’s African American community by backing Clinton, a friend, over Obama, the nation’s first viable African American candidate. Then confusion struck about a week ago when Lewis told the New York Times that, as a super delegate to the Democratic National Convention, he would feel compelled to vote for

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• John Lewis challenged for re-election

  Published: February 25, 2008, 11:01 am

  Tags: Atlanta Police, Atlanta Politics, Atlanta Beatdown, Black Atlanta Movers And Shakers, Black Politics, Georgia Politics, John Lewis, Kathryn Johnston Case, Markel Hutchins, Obama For President, Obama Vs Hillary, Politics, Race, Political Expediency

  Hat Tip: By Jim Galloway, Atlanta Journal Constitution For the first time in nearly a decade, U.S. Rep. John Lewis of Atlanta on Wednesday picked up opposition to his re-election to Congress. Markel Hutchins, an Atlanta minister who took up the cause of a 92-year-old woman killed in a botched police raid, announced he would challenge the

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• Introducing Markel Hutchins

  Published: March 25, 2008, 3:07 pm

  Tags: 2008, Bill Clinton, Black Atlanta Movers And Shakers, Black Politics, Congressional Black Caucus, Georgia Politics, Hillary, John Lewis, Markel Hutchins, Obama For President, Obama Vs Hillary, Politics, Race, U S House Of Representatives, Black Voters, Police Brutality

  Listening to Rev. Markel Hutchins preach is like listening to Martin Luther King, Jr for the first time-it gives you chills. The thirty year-old preacher has an extensive record of activism and community organizing on behalf of the voiceless and powerless. Working with the progressive labor movement against Wal-Mart and for health care

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• Frankly, my dear

  Published: April 18, 2008, 7:35 am

  Tags: Georgia Politics

  Broun letter: Dear Fellow Georgian,As an enlisted Marine veteran and former Navy medical officer serving in Congress, I naturally have a strong interest in our military, our national defense, and our national security. Moreover, in my oath of office I vowed to protect the United States.Actually, the number one responsibility of the federal

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• Direct mail

  Published: April 17, 2008, 7:23 am

  Tags: Georgia Politics

  Okay, so I've been annoyed by the daily Paul Broun letter asking for support (never addressed to me, always addressed to my husband, which would pretty much guarantee he would never get my support if he ever had a chance of it to begin with), but now I'm going to start reading them. This is how it opens: The IRS is akin to a shark tearing large

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• Sistah’s Step Up

  Published: May 5, 2008, 11:49 pm

  Tags: Able Mable Thomas, 2008, Atlanta Politics, Black Atlanta Movers And Shakers, Black Politics, Congressional Black Caucus, Georgia Politics, John Barrow, John Lewis, Markel Hutchins, Politics, Power Games, Race, Regina Thomas, Black Voters

  having served in both the Georgia House of Representatives and the Atlanta City Council. She is also a progressive legislator having twice passed legislation to increase Georgia's homestead exemption to protect low income and elderly people from losing their homes. She, like Hutchins, frames the contest in generational terms, I

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• Voting and suchlike

  Published: July 14, 2008, 7:25 am

  Tags: Georgia Politics

  I really haven't devoted nearly as much time as my colleagues or as I should have to following the Democratic primary for Senate this year, and yet the day of voting arrives tomorrow. Dang. I better figure out who I'm going with.This ABH article has links to all the candidates' pages. And so I've been poking around on them, trying to figure out

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