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The Governor is the Chief Law Enforcement Officer in Georgia — Brian Kemp

July 28, 2022 By D.A. King

Governor’s Office

The governor is the chief executive of the state and oversees the executive branch. He or she is the chief law enforcement officer and the commander-in-chief of the state’s military forces.

The governor shall “take care that the laws are faithfully executed and shall be the conservator of the peace” in the state. This power to enforce laws is almost identical to that of the president of the United States. He or she has the power to veto legislation, although the Georgia General Assembly can override the governor’s veto with a two-thirds majority in each chamber.

From the Governor’s office official website. See also the Georgia constitution.

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Fast Fact from the Georgia constitution: “The Governor shall take care that the laws are faithfully executed…” OCGA 42-4-14 #BrianKemp

July 25, 2022 By D.A. King

 

SECTION II.
DUTIES AND POWERS OF GOVERNOR

Photo: Twitter

Page 30.

Paragraph I. Executive powers. The chief executive powers shall be vested in the Governor. The other executive officers shall have such powers as may be prescribed by this Constitution and by law.

Paragraph II. Law enforcement. The Governor shall take care that the laws are faithfully executed and shall be the conservator of the peace throughout the state.

We note this includes OCGA 42-4-14

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Bookmark: Romney, David Perdue, J. Neil Purcell, Bradley T. Crate, Trump and a mismanaged campaign for GA governor

May 16, 2022 By D.A. King

 

 

Photo: Twitter.

Note to self/bookmark on the odiferous Perdue campaign. Future research coming.

Notice that the above very accurate ad (that came out about ten days before Primary Day) is paid for by Perdue for Governor Inc.

Here is the Ga Sec of State info on Perdue for Governor Inc. Note that Bradley T. Crate is CFO and Secretary.

He is also the founder and head of Red Curve Solutions and was treasurer of the 2020 Trump campaign.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Georgia’s Republican Lt. Governor endorses former board member of anti-immigration enforcement corporation for state senate – Jason Anavitarte

May 20, 2020 By D.A. King

Georgia’s Lt. Governor, Geoff Duncan. Photo: LtGov.ga.gov

GALEO infamous in state politics for its extreme positions on immigration and radical leadership

Jason Anavitarte registered to run for state House in 2006 as a Democrat.

Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan office phone – 404-656-5030

Republican Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan has endorsed a candidate for state senate who is a former board member of a leftist organization that lobbies against immigration enforcement, voter ID, ICE holds and official English for government.

State Senate District 31 hopeful Jason Anavitarte served on the board of directors of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO) from 2006 to 2009. During that time, GALEO lobbied against passage of the nationally noted SB529, the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act which established a requirement that public employers and their contractors sort out newly hired blackmarket labor with use of the federal employment verification system now known as E-Verify.

The legislation also required state use of the federal 287(g) program that allows local law enforcement to screen jail inmates for immigration status and report illegal alien prisoners to ICE for deportation proceedings. The bill, now law, that GALEO vehemently opposed also requires that local and county governments verify the legal status of people applying for local, state and federal public benefits.

GALEO Executive Director and former Democrat fundraiser, Jerry Gonzalez, drew much attention during the lobbying frenzy against the 2006 state immigration enforcement measure when he escorted self-described illegal aliens into the gold-domed state Capitol telling legislators they should regard the illegal aliens  as “constituents.” Gonzalez described the illegals as merely “immigrants.” The staged and pre-announced GALEO transporting and encouragement of the illegals made a memorable note for pro-enforcement groups and news in the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

As has been reported elsewhere, GALEO was established in 2003. Along with Jane Fonda, Anavitarte is also listed as a GALEO “Founding Friend.”

A February Twitter post from Lt. Governor Duncan describes Anavitarte as a “proven conservative…”

Photo: @GeoffDuncanGA Twitter feed

 

The endorsement from Duncan has raised eyebrows in conservative quarters of the state’s Republican Party not only because GALEO is well known for its corporate-funded opposition to immigration enforcement, but because candidate Anavitarte, now running as a Republican, filed to run for state House in 2006 as a Democrat.

The Lt. Governor also serves as president of the state senate.

Jason Anavitarte. Photo: Rome-News Tribune

Perhaps the most jarring surprise for pro-enforcement voters in Duncan’s endorsement is the fact that in 2016, U.S. Senator David Perdue terminated the Judiciary Committee’s confirmation process of another former GALEO board member and State Court Judge, Dax Lopez, who was nominated for a federal judgeship by former President Barack Obama. Perdue made it clear that his office investigated the nominee’s ties to the controversial GALEO and ended the chances of confirmation because of that relationship.

“After a thorough review of the professional and judicial record of DeKalb County Judge Dax Lopez, I have become uncomfortable with his longstanding participation in a controversial organization including his service on its board of directors” Perdue wrote in his statement on the matter.

The obvious – and many say troubling – difference in judgment between Georgia’s Republican Lt. Governor and its senior U.S. Senator is not going un-noticed by grassroots GOP voters.

According to the left-leaning Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, Georgia is home to more illegal aliens than green card holders.

Georgia’s governor, Brian Kemp, snared a primary endorsement from President Donald Trump in 2018 due in large part to Kemp’s tough talk and campaign promises on illegal immigration. Kemp has not mentioned immigration since the November, 2018 election.

Ballotpedia lists four Republican candidates for Georgia’s senate District 31.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Governor Brian Kemp’s ‘do not call me’ policy

January 16, 2020 By D.A. King

Image: Brian Kemp -National Review/Reuters

*UPDATED: 12:55PM – We are already getting emails from now extremely angry conservative voters who are calling the 404-656-1776 phone number at the governor’s office and being told to ix-nay on the phone calls. “Use the contact form.”

Here is one of many: “Thanks, D.A. I just called and got the same line (“In order for your comment to be documented, . . . go to the web site.”). I pointed out that he is distancing himself from the voter and got the same reply. With this, on top of everything else he either has or hasn’t done, he has lost my vote.” DH – Atlanta.

Another one from Jan 27: “When you call the number, the live person who answers (they don’t take messages) will give you a website to contact and leave your Message. I couldn’t find where I could leave a message.” Martha Steele Brett, from Facebook.
David M “Governor Kemp is obviously destroying his re-election and you can forget that number nobody is going to answer your questions I’ve tried and tried and tried…D.A.  when I finally did get an answer they directed me to their damn website which is useless still got no answers. This is been going on for months.” “You know I had faith in our governor I knocked on doors for him I was spit on me and my family and a lot of my friends we were called racist my life threatened. By him not answering his constituents it’s just not right. I’m afraid he’s going to pay for this in November…”From Facebook, today, Jan 27.

 

**Updated January 27 – My mistake: There is no voice mail on the governor’s 404-656-1776 phone line at the Georgia Capitol as of yesterday (Sunday). 

Having been a reluctant and active denizen of Georgia’s state Capitol since 2004, I can assure those who aren’t that the number one activity that gets the immediate and full attention of the elected officials there is an organized group of voters who actually drive to Atlanta and go into the Gold-Domed beehive during legislative session.

The number two most effective way to get their attention is to ring their telephones – this includes phones in the governor’s office, where the phone number is and has been 404-656-1776.

 Constantly ringing phones with voters on the other end is a signal that something has become “an issue” that must be managed, if not actually dealt with.

We are hearing from multiple Georgians that staffers in Governor Kemp’s administration are attempting to discourage citizen telephone calls to his office. I have been checking the official contact page for a couple months and noted that the phone number (404-656-1776) into Kemp’s office had been removed sometime after he was sworn in. It had been posted there since 2003 that I am aware of, likely long before that.

Almost identical versions of “the receptionist told me we have to mail outside letter or fill out online form.  They are not taking messages nor tallying calls” is what I was being told by miffed constituents.

The Governor is apparently being blasted with calls concerning the refugee decision to be made by Friday (tomorrow).

(Related: Here is an Action Alert received here from the discredited hate-mongers at the SPLC urging phone calls to Gov. Kemp in favor of more refugees “because it makes our communities stronger.” They already knew the phone number. So should Georgians paying attention)

Two days ago I called the 404-656-1776 number and asked the nice young lady who answered to check the contact page to see if I had overlooked the phone number. She agreed with me that it wasn’t there, took my name and phone number and went out of her way to assure me that she would double check with her superiors and have somebody call me back.

Later in the day another staffer called to tell me that the page was being updated  and that an 800 number would be added. I made him tell me I was correct, the 404-656-1776 number was indeed absent.

No phone number version

Thanks to the magic of the WayBackMachine internet archive , here is a link from the recent past – Dec 5, 2019 – that illustrates the chief executive’s online contact page without the phone number. Here is a link to the contact page from March 31, 2019 – no phone number.

It’s back!

Today I checked the Governor’s website, went to the contact page and was happy to see that something had caused the 404-656-1776 number to reappear. But I see no 800 number…

Funny how things work.

We also note that there was a period of time last year when there was no voice mail on the 404-656-1776 lines. If you didn’t call during business hours, you were unable to leave a message to the governor’s office.Updated January 27 – My mistake: There is no voice mail on the governor’s 404-656-1776 phone line at the Georgia Capitol as of yesterday (Sunday). 

We suggest that Georgians not only call the governor, but, if you are able, also send an email behind your call. And rest assured, they do track the quantity of calls they get on every issue. But, without the push of the mostly liberal media, it’s only “an issue” if voters make it an issue.

Example? When is the last time you heard Governor “Big Truck” Brian Kemp mention illegal immigration or his campaign promises on that topic? Right now, it’s not an issue.

*Added 12:10 PM Apparently not an issue, even in the State of the State Address today.

The phone number to Georgia’s governor is 404-656-1776.

 

 

 

 

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Governor Kemp breaks silence on illegal immigration

December 4, 2019 By D.A. King

Image: Dustin inman Society

 

Despite campaign promises, Kemp is mostly mum

 

 In a twenty-minute press conference in his office Wednesday morning, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp formally announced his pick to replace retiring Senator Johnny Isakson. It is notable that in his introduction speech for businesswoman and political trainee Kelly Loeffler, Kemp broached the topic of border security and illegal immigration.

As far as we can tell, this is Kemp’s first public remark related to illegal immigration since the 2018 election. We offer a no-cost, hand car wash to anyone who can accurately cite a quote or remark from Kemp on the issue since then.

“Senator Loeffler will fight to strengthen our immigration laws and finish the Border Wall so we can stop Mexican drug cartels from flooding our streets – here in Georgia – with drugs, weapons, violence, and fear” said Kemp.

According to the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, Georgia is home to more illegal aliens than green card holders. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security ranks the Peach State ahead of Arizona in its population of “undocumented workers.”

Kemp’s silence and blatant disregard for the issue is in defiance of his detailed campaign outline for a state “track and deport plan” in which he pledged to “create a comprehensive database to track criminal aliens in Georgia.” “He will also update Georgia law to streamline deportations from our jails and prisons” and to create a criminal alien database” went the promise.

Still shocked by his inaction on illegal immigration in his first year, pro-enforcement political insiders paying attention to legislation in the Georgia Capitol are carefully watching to see if Kemp will put the power of his office – and begin to honor his campaign promises – by pushing for a simple bill that was held up in the Republican-ruled House in the 2019 session. HB 202 from Rep Jesse Petrea would require the state Department of Corrections to post a quarterly, public report citing the number of foreigners in the prison system, their immigration status, home nation and crimes for which they are serving time.

The measure was stopped in the House Rules Committee and must now begin the hearing process from the beginning, according to the House Clerk’s office.

While it does not begin to approach the tough-talk promises of action on criminal aliens from candidate Kemp, the end result of the Petrea’s HB 202 becoming law would be that Georgia taxpayers would have access to hard, official, indisputable data on at least one part of the cost of illegal immigration – which is one reason the bill was smothered last year by business-first Republican leadership.

A simple one-pager, HB 202 is still alive and has the votes to pass. As this writer noted elsewhere, Kemp could have ordered the DOC to begin the data sharing last year. But he didn’t.

Image: Brian Kemp -National Review/Reuters

 Illegal immigration is still an issue for Georgians

  • A likely illegal alien was arrested in Marietta last month and charged with molesting at least two boys.
  • Pro-enforcement Americans are fighting against the marxist radicals in Gwinnett and Cobb Counties who are waging a very carefully staged war on ICE, immigration enforcement and the lifesaving 287 (g) operations in those jurisdictions.
  • Despite a state law requiring participation, the Georgia Department of Public Safety is not in the 287(g) program.
  • Jerry Gonzalez, leader of the corporate-funded and anti-enforcement GALEO told a metro-Atlanta newspaper that verifying ID and hiring records with use of the no-cost IMAGE certification is a “white nationalist agenda.”
  • Readers not familiar with the folks at GALEO or Gov. Kemp’s relationship with them may want to see the angry letter from a retired immigration agent to the governor here.
  • It could be worse. Election runner-up Stacey Abrams’ “New Georgia Project” is in open opposition to ICE even operating in Georgia.

We make the same no-cost car wash offer to anyone who can cite any comment from Governor Kemp on any of the above examples.

“I got a big truck”

Perhaps most obvious to voters who can remember back to last year is candidate Kemp’s “yep, I just said that…” campaign ad shtick that involved his “I got a big truck” (video) and the possibility of his personally rounding up “criminal illegals.”

Asking about the current whereabouts of the truck seems a fair question for Governor Kemp from the faithful GOP voters.

From here, we will begin to produce regular updates on Governor Kemp’s campaign promises, his silence – or any actions – on the illegal immigration crisis in Georgia

Stay tuned.

*Note: Here is a link to Gov. Brian Kemp’s contact page, but unless my vision is worse than usual, it seems he has removed the phone number from the page. If so, here it is: 404-656-1776

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Georgia Governor Appoints Replacement Insurance Commissioner with Ties to Anti-enforcement Immigration Lobbying Group, GALEO – Brian Kemp

June 13, 2019 By D.A. King

Left: Newly appointed Georgia Insurance Commissioner John King with GALEO Executive Director, Jerry Gonzalez. Image: Facebook, GALEO.org

 

Note, due to today’s funeral of our friend Billy Inman, this is a rush write up that will be expanded on soon. UPDATED AND FINAL – June 14 – 8:50AM

 

Yesterday, Georgia Republican Governor, Brian Kemp, announced his appointment of a metro-Atlanta police chief, John King, to be the replacement for the now-suspended elected Insurance Commissioner, Jim Beck. In Georgia, Insurance Commissioner is a statewide, constitutional office.

Jerry Gonzalez, Executive Director of the corporate-funded, anti-enforcement lobbyist group, GALEO, was quick to send out a media release praising the “historic” appointment and boasting that King had assisted the activist group as keynote speaker at a GALEO breakfast fundraiser several years ago.

“Congrats to Chief King, close friend of @GALEOorg !” was the much-repeated celebratory post on the GALEO Facebook page.

Update: Since GALEO blocked me fro their Facebook page, I am not sure the above link still works. So, try this too.

Kemp’s Insurance Commissioner appointee has no background or experience in the insurance industry.

Kemp’s appointment of the GALEO-connected police chief to Insurance Commissioner comes as a shock to many Republican voters in the state. Georgia’s conservative U.S. Senator David Perdue stopped the Obama nomination of a one-time GALEO board member, Dax Lopez, to a federal bench seat in 2016 because of his concern with the GALEO relationship.

DeKalb State Court Judge Dax Lopez. Image: Daily Signal

Perhaps unknown to most Republican voters, in addition to marching in the streets of Atlanta against enforcement of existing federal laws on immigration, GALEO and its director are well-known in the state Capitol for lobbying against state legislation aimed at reporting criminal aliens to federal authorities and establishing an official database of illegal aliens serving time in the state’s prison system.

GALEO lobbies against voter ID, official English and local jails honoring ICE detainers. Executive Director Gonzalez is known to verbally attack female legislators when he does not approve of speeches or positions on illegal immigration. In 2011, Gonzalez posted this angry explanation of being asked to leave the Georgia Capitol when he lashed out at state Senator Renee Unterman for a speech she made on the floor of the senate.

GALEO online poster opposing 2018 legislation to improve reporting of illegal aliens to federal authorities

In 2011, GALEO’s Gonzalez was escorted out of a Rome, Georgia luncheon that featured a panel discussion on immigration when he began yelling at diminutive state Rep Katie Dempsey as reported by the Rome News Tribune.

State rep. Katie Dempsey. Image: Georgia General Assembly

Gonzalez is a former lobbyist for the radical MALDEF corporation. GALEO founder, former state Senator Sam Zamarippa was a MALDEF board member. MALDEF founder Mario Obledo is best remembered for his promise that “California is going to become a Hispanic state and if anyone doesn’t like it they should leave. They ought to go back to Europe” on the Tom Likus radio show in 1998.

According to the left-leaning Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, Georgia is home to more illegal aliens than green card holders.

Kemp ran on a platform that included his now famous “I got a big truck, just in case I need to round up criminal illegals and take ’em home myself,”

Kemp and a GALEO fundraiser – Advice from a liberal AJC political blogger 

Republicans are learning that before he was elected governor, then Secretary of State Brian Kemp also gave GALEO a fundraising boost when he attended the annual GALEO Power Breakfast fundraiser in 2015.

On GALEO, the liberal AJC political blogger Jim Galloway informed readers today  that the Republicans will need to court the illegal alien lobby group as a necessary first step to “court Hispanic votes in the future” which ignores thirty years of election results since the Republican immigration amnesty of 1986.

All this creates a simple question: Does appointee John King agree with the GALEO agenda? He is due to be sworn in in the next few weeks, somebody should ask.

Governor Brian Kemp’s office can be reached at 404-656-1776 and Brian.Kemp@georgia.gov 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Brian Kemp Did Not Steal the Georgia’s Governor’s Race – National Review

November 20, 2018 By D.A. King

“The law was passed by a Democratic legislature and signed by a Democratic governor.”

Image: Georgia Governor-Elect Brian Kemp -National Review/Reuters

Brian Kemp did not steal the Georgia’s governor race – National Review

By David French

November 19, 2018

Claims to the contrary wrongly undermine faith in our elections.

When is it acceptable to question the legitimacy of an American election outcome? The proper answer is “almost never.” Or, more precisely, never do it without overwhelming evidence of fraud or misconduct that’s substantial enough to alter the outcome of the election. The person claiming decisive fraud or vote suppression bears a heavy burden of proof. Any other standard risks contributing to an already-toxic political environment that is leaving all too many voters paranoid and susceptible to believing unverified and inflammatory conspiracy theories.

Applying this standard, it’s past time for Democrats to dial back their rhetoric about the Georgia gubernatorial election. It was reckless for Hillary Clinton to declare that “if [Stacey Abrams] had a fair election, she already would have won.” It was absurd for both Cory Booker and Sherrod Brown to say the election was “stolen.” Indeed, this claim is rapidly becoming conventional wisdom in parts of the Left. In the words of The Nation’s Joan Walsh, they believe the “system was rigged against her.”

Abrams lost her race by more than 54,000 votes. That’s a gap far outside the margin of fraud or suppression. Yet she fed the narrative that there was something fundamentally wrong with the election, asserting in her speech acknowledging the election results that “this is not a speech of concession, because concession means to acknowledge an action is right, true, or proper. As a woman of conscience and faith, I cannot concede that.” Instead, she was ending her race simply because her “assessment is the law currently allows no further viable remedy.”

“Democracy failed Georgia,” she said. She was wrong. Read the rest here.

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Dept. of Corrections in violation of illegal immigration law *Updated and corrected

December 31, 2024 By D.A. King

Update: Dec 31, 2024 noon: The Department of Corrections apparently saw the version of the below column that ran on the subscription outlet James Magazine Online yesterday (Dec 30). They have posted a list of prisoners with ICE detainers and labeled it “HB 1105 Quarterly Report December 2014.” It’s a start, but what they have posted is a small part of what the law requires.

Correction: January 1, 2025: The state law requires GDC to post the report cited below on October 1, 2024 – then Dec 1, 2024 and then quarterly thereafter. I am correcting my typo in the below column that reported those dates as 31 October and 31 December. I regret the typos and the errors    dak.

 

Department officials and staff apparently didn’t read the law

Some noteworthy news from Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) related to the high profile illegal immigration legislation (HB 1105) passed in the 2024 session of the General Assembly: The department is already in violation of one of the laws (see section 7) contained in the fifteen-section measure. Unless they act extremely quickly, Commissioner Tyrone Oliver’s office will be in further violation tomorrow, Dec. 31. 

GDC Commisoner Tyrone Oliver.

Known as “The Georgia Criminal Alien Track and Report Act,” HB 1105 passed into law after Laken Riley was brutally murdered by an illegal alien in February. Sponsored by Rep Jesse Petrea (R- Savannah), the bill contains language that requires various law enforcement agencies to submit reports throughout the year designed to provide the public with detailed, official information that will expose the staggering cost – both monetary and human – of criminal aliens in Georgia.

Here is an easy-to-read general explanation of HB 1105.

The GDC is charged with producing a quarterly, public report to be posted on the department’s website, with the first edition due October 1st, 2024 – three months ago. The second quarterly report is supposed to be posted, Dec 1st.

After scouring the GDC website last week looking for the report and not finding it, I contacted the GDC communications department asking if I had somehow overlooked it or why it was not there. Minutes later I got a call from GDC Manager of Communications, Lori Benoit, who informed me that they would have the report up on March 31st, 2025 – “because that law doesn’t go into effect until January 31st, 2025…” Not true.

The text of HB 1105 has different effective dates than the official GDC spokesperson.

SECTION 14.  “Except as otherwise provided for in subsection (b) of this Section, this Act shall become effective upon approval by the Governor or upon becoming law without such approval. Section 10 of this Act shall become effective on December 31, 2024. “

GDC General Counsel Jennifer Ammons.

It looks like the staff and management at GDC have not read the law. It’s short, so I post it below in its entirety so JMO readers and GDC staff can read it together. Gov Kemp signed the bill into law in May.

Section 7 (OCGA 42-1-11.4): “The commissioner shall, on the official public website used by the department, publish a report of aggregate data on the immigration status, offenses, and home countries of inmates who are confined under the authority of the department who are not citizens of the United States and to whom the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division of the Department of Homeland Security has issued immigration detainer notices as such term is defined in Code Section 42-1-11.5. Each report shall include the total number of inmates who are not citizens of the United States; provided, however, that any inmates who are citizens of both the United States and one or more other countries shall be designated as such as a separate category. Such report shall be first published on October 1, 2024, and every 90 days thereafter; provided, however, that if the ninetieth day falls on a state holiday or Saturday or Sunday, then such report shall be published the next business day.” Italics mine.

Assuming GDC eventually creates and posts the mandated report on the number of criminal aliens in our prisons, there will exist an unambiguous method for Georgians to calculate the monetary cost of housing them.

There are a lot of anti-enforcement people both in and out of state government who will be very unhappy that Georgians have access to what is regarded as “too much information.”

 But for a ballpark cost, it is possible to get a preview by using the figures Rep. Petrea obtained from GDC last year in preparation for processing his pro-enforcement legislation.

Last January GDC showed there were 1579 illegal aliens in the prison system with ICE holds (not total illegals). According to online data from GDC the (2021) daily cost per prisoner is $73.79. my math puts the total annual cost to Georgians at over $42 million.

AG Investigation without prosecution? (carve out)

It appears GDC may not have concerns about sanctions for violations. While the legislation – passed to crack down on officials ignoring the laws that were already in place – contains misdemeanor penalties for some violations (including for law enforcement officials), language in HB 1105 authorizes the Attorney General to Investigate and prosecute violations of some of the laws it created– but limits the AG only to investigate failure to compliance with the law GDC has ignored – (see lines 349-342).

We can’t help but wonder if Laken Riley’s family knows about any of this.

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Stolen Valor: GA state Senator Shawn Still does not want to talk about his false claim of being a military veteran

September 1, 2024 By D.A. King

State Sen. Shawn Still. (Twitter/X)

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“Tori, don’t, don’t ever say that to me again. I am too. I’ve served proudly, and you don’t need to throw that in my face.” Republican state Senator Shawn Still on veteran status to Senate District 20 Republican Primary candidate and former U.S. Marine Tori Branum in a recorded May, 2024 telephone conversation.

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In several May, 2024 posts, we focused on a claim by Georgia state Senator Shawn Still (R- Norcross) that he is a military veteran. He isn’t.

GA Lt. Gov. Burt Jones (R), President of the Senate.

While the political right correctly goes after Democrat Tim Walz for his shameless stolen valor remarks, as far as we can see there is silence from Georgia Republicans on Shawn Still. That includes Georgia Republican Party leadership, Georgia’s Gov. Brian Kemp, the president of the Senate, Lt, Governor Burt Jones, Still’s Senate colleagues and Republican voters – even voters in Still’s home district in Gwinnett County.

You can read about Freshman Sen. Shawn Still here and here and here. There is a lot more information linked into the posts.

Shawn Still Senate bio here.

 

For political insiders who do more than read “the news” it may help to explain Senator Still’s approach to policy by pointing out he was named the 2023 Freshman Senator of the Year by the Georgia Chamber of Commerce. That reminds us: Don’t forget to remember the date of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce 2024 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Summit.

  • Senator Shawn Still can be contacted at his Capitol office here. 

Heads up: Still has made it clear to this writer that he does not want to talk about the stolen valor topic.

SMH

 

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