Dallas Mayor Boyd Austin, the former president of the Georgia Municipal Association, appears likely to jump in the race, too.Īnd Matt Laughridge, an auto dealer and former state Senate candidate, is also eyeing a run. Kevin Cooke, R-Carrollton, could soon join the contest. Tom Graves' northwest Georgia seat is heating up quickly. Brian Kemp will also be there - as well as his U.S. Ivanka Trump, daughter of the president, will be in Atlanta on Tuesday for a south Fulton County event focusing on human trafficking. Statewide, busing costs soared the last two decades, with local districts covering $945 million of nearly $1.1 billion in expenses during the last school year. Editor Kevin Riley has a front-page editorial calling for the Legislature "to repair the broken system that should protect vulnerable residents of the state's assisted living and large personal care homes." From the piece: The AJC doesn't do this often, which means we consider the issue pretty important. Much of the first day of a 40-day session of the Legislature is devoted to agenda setting: While she wasn't invited to give an address to either chamber, the Democrat trekked next door to meet with supporters at City Hall.
One model for that strategy might be Hillary Clinton's 2016 visit just before the primary.
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But given the presence of the state’s political reporters and TV cameras that blanket north Georgia, presidential campaigns are likely to engage in more than a few drive-by appearances. No other candidates will be permitted on the ballot.ĭemocrats aren’t likely to be offered the same courtesy this year. But President Donald Trump was declared the winner of the March contest last November. In the past, when the Republican nomination has been at stake, candidates have often been invited to address one or both chambers. There is the possibility that lawmakers could still be deliberating when the Georgia presidential primary arrives on March 24. Budget woes are expected to take center stage, and we could be in for a long slog. The 2020 session of the state Legislature begins in a few minutes. "f I were in the United States Senate today, I would absolutely be right there with my Democratic colleagues, saying that Trump cannot expand this act into something more than an isolated act without getting authority from the Congress." "I think it is a good thing that the American military took out Soleimani and the other man who was with him who goes by the moniker - who went by the moniker - Abu Mahdi." Like his father, former senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, Matt Lieberman expressed support for the U.S. Over at PeachPod, host Kyle Hayes i nterviews Matt Lieberman, the aforementioned Democratic candidate in U.S. Also set to attend: Kelly Loeffler, the Republican senator he could challenge.
It's not likely a formal announcement would come until next week - after Warnock gives the welcome at a nationally-watched Martin Luther King Jr. We are going to put our best foot forward because we know our ideas are stronger than Republican ones and we align with more Georgians than they do." "We've got a long time before qualifying.
Nikema Williams, who heads the Democratic Party of Georgia. "I don't know that it's going to be crowded," said state Sen. Jen Jordan has already said she won’t run, and DeKalb chief executive Michael Thurmond might not, either. Others, though, may have a change of heart: State Sen.
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