Georgia Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson says a prominent conservative advocacy group is to blame for the failure of a last-ditch compromise effort Tuesday by House Republicans to reopen the federal government. Isakson said the continuation of the two-week shutdown was due in part to the uncompromising position of Heritage Action for American, the…
Rumblings that state Senator Jason Carter is mulling a bid to unseat Governor Nathan Deal have sparked interest across the board, leading one progressive group to commission a poll of their own. A Public Policy Polling (PPP) survey of 602 registered Georgia voters, conducted on behalf of Better Georgia, shows the incumbent Republican…
An Atlanta attorney says he is seriously weighing a Republican primary bid to succeed Sen. Saxby Chambliss, telling friends he will join the crowded GOP field if he can raise the necessary resources to be considered a viable contender. Art Gardner, a named parter at the boutique intellectual property firm Gardner Groff, has told…
Believing their ability to win Georgia’s open U.S. Senate seat next year is predicated on dodging a costly and divisive nominating contest, Democratic leaders have begun quietly working to anoint a consensus candidate, multiple party donors and operatives say. U.S. Rep. John Barrow, the coastal blue dog who has thwarted consecutive Republican efforts to bounce…
U.S. Reps. Paul Broun of Georgia and Steve Stockman of Texas have collected the signatures of more than three dozen Republicans on a letter warning congressional leadership from green-lighting legislation providing for universal background checks without majority support from the House GOP caucus. “We are writing to express our strong opposition to legislation requiring private…
U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey will formally announce a bid for Georgia’s Republican Senate nomination to replace retiring Sen. Saxby Chambliss, a well-placed GOP strategist has confirmed. A Republican with knowledge of Gingrey’s plans told Tipsheet the congressman, now in his sixth term in the House, would file a federal statement of candidacy Wednesday…
A majority of Georgians support background checks on all gun buyers as well as federal legislation that would criminalize the sale of assault weapons, according to automated polling firm Survey USA. The survey, fielded last Wednesday with a sample of 500 adults, found broad support for a host of new gun control measures, universal background…
Popular conservative blogger and radio personality Erick Erickson said Tuesday he was considering a primary challenge to Sen. Saxby Chambliss after a host of political bigs had approached him about staging a bid of his own in the days since the incumbent broke with a vaulted no-taxes pledge. “For a week now, I’ve…
The man who delivered the benediction at President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration said that he believes, as he once did in his “militant” youth, that all whites are hell-bound. The Rev. Joseph Lowery, a patriarch of the civil rights movement and close ally of the president, said at a weekend rally in central Georgia that…
More than a quarter million African American voters in Georgia have already cast ballots for the November elections, the highest participation rate ever recorded by the secretary of state’s office. According to state elections officials, 780,545 Georgians, of which 33 percent were black, had already voted in the presidential contest as of Friday. Should…
