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I am blocked at the call-in number of the Erick Erickson radio show

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 “The party you are trying to reach is not accepting calls at this time.”

My cell phone number may be is  blocked from calling the Erick Erickson radio show 

 

UPDATE: Feb. 9, 2023: Still blocked as per attempt to call in today.

UPDATE: Feb. 23, 2023: Still blocked and I can’t stop laughing.

UPDATE: March 28, 2023: Yep, still blocked.

UPDATE: May 9, 2023. Still blocked from participating win Erick’s show.

UPDATE: June 13, 2023. Yep, still blocked

UPDATE: September 26, 2023 – still blocked from joining the Erick Erickson Show.

UPDATE: August 5, 2024 – still blocked.

  • Bonus: Erick Erickson to GOP: ‘Do school choice as an entitlement!’ – transcript & audio

The below is related to the Erick Erickson radio show from WSB-radio in Atlanta, *Jan 24, 2023. Podcast here – S12 Episode 16, Hour 2.  Transcript on the bottom. Audio below. Below that, audio of the results of me trying to go on the air to ask Erickson about illegal aliens and state-funded private school tuition. I had a statewide column posted that day.

 

 

The below is most of an Erickson segment on “entitlements” and school choice. It’s Erickson’s advice to Republicans – focused further down on Republican state legislators in Georgia. I listen to the show only sporadically but have heard this same idea presented three or four times since last January (our legislature starts up in January) when I called in to suggest Erickson qualify that Georgia taxpayers should not be paying for private school tuition for illegal alien students or families. At the time he was selling the ridiculous HB 999 in the Georgia state House.

Using my iPhone, as I did last year, I tried to call in for this January segment too – I got a recording saying that “the party you are trying to reach is not accepting calls at this time.” I tried it several times. Same recording. You can hear it in the below 10 second audio recording. Here is a photo of my iPhone screen after several tries.

Then I tried my land line. It went right through to Erickson’s call screener who asked me what I wanted to say and then my name, then told me to hang on for Erick. That was a little before 2:00 PM.

  • Related: Not accepting calls at this time – Recipient is blocking the caller
  • Update: 12:25, Jan 25: With a guest host on Erickson’s show today I used my iPhone to call Erickson’s call in number again. I got the same recording as yesterday. Then I tried using two land lines and my wife’s cellphone. Our calls rang through on all of them except my iPhone. My apologies to the call screener – yep, that was me.

I put the call on speaker and listened as Erickson took four or five calls, including two on school choice. He didn’t put me on the air. The show was over at 3:00 pm. I tried to get on again about three months ago using my iPhone, but stayed on hold for about forty-five minutes before the show was over without being “picked.”

I may have been blocked by Erick Erickson on his show call-in number    877-973-7425.

I can get to the call screener with a land line on a number I have never used to call in, but not on the iPhone number I usually use. I am wondering if Erick Erickson, Republican, conservative, national radio show host has blocked me. Could be…he is also a shameless Brian Kemp protector. I am not. I don’t think either one of them like my determination to expose Kemp, who is also shielded by the Georgia media – including the liberal AJC newspaper. There is no doubt that I am blocked at the AJC.

I follow Erickson on Twitter. I’m not blocked there yet:

  • Erickson file here.
  • (Part of) AJC file here.

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Transcript by Rev.com. My cost $20.00 and about 4 hours.

Erick Erickson radio host:

“…Actually did show up in the election and vote. The- the people who voted early, the people who voted on election day, they’re surveyed; we have lists of those people. Media agencies go out and find those people. And what we’re finding is that, uh, the cultural conservative values of the GOP, and particularly as the Democratic Party becomes Whiter and Whiter, the culturally conservative values of the GOP are resonating more and more with Black voters.

But, to Michelle’s point, it doesn’t seem like it’s significant because when you’re… when you go from 90% voting Democrat to 85% voting Democrat, you still got 85% voting Democrat. But to put this in further perspective, Brian Kemp got almost half of the Hispanic vote. In 2018, he only got 38% of it. That was a pretty significant shift. He also did better with Black… among Black men in 2022, than 2018.

Put it to you this way, if Republicans continue to improve with the Hispanic vote, Brian Kemp is term-limited, but if the next Republican governor in Georgia does the same in the Hispanic community and the same in the… in the White vote, he’s still gonna win. Republicans in Georgia are shifting the state and I firmly believe, those of you listening in Atlanta, in the state legislature right now, if you would pursue school choice, that issue resonates in the Black and the Hispanic community. You give an entitlement, these voters aren’t gonna walk back that entitlement. This is something you need to pursue.

Time for me to get on my soapbox. Let’s take a Republican and Democratic theory at face value. When you give an entitlement, that entitlement will not go away. Democrats have given Medicare and Medicaid, and Social Security, and healthcare, and you name it, and Republicans had never got rid of them. So, Republicans, here is an entitlement to give voters, give families, give citizens, and that is: The opportunity to pick the school of their choice for their children.

You give school choice to the kids; That’s an entitlement. And it is the one entitlement the Democrats hate. So, you will see Democrats campaign on getting rid of it and fighting it. We see this with Katie Hobbs in Arizona; The Republicans gave school choice to parents, Katie Hobbs has come in, she beat Kari Lake, she’s now the governor, and she wants to defund it. There’s already a voter backlash in the Hispanic community against Katie Hobbs for taking away their new entitlement.

You do this in a place like Georgia where Republicans are beginning to make ground with Hispanic voters and Black voters, you’re gonna lock Republicans in for the next several decades because no Democrat running in 2026 is going to campaign on school choice; They’re gonna campaign on getting rid of it. They’re gonna claim, “It killed the public schools.” And you know what? All those parents, whose kids are suddenly getting a good education, they’re gonna vote Republican. This is how Ron DeSantis won in Florida; Andrew Gillum, his opponent, campaigned on finally getting rid of Jeb Bush’s school choice reforms. And Ron DeSantis won enough Black women and Hispanic women, that he barely won the governorship, but he did. And look what happened four years later? He improved school choice, he bolstered it, he strengthened it, he funded those schools.

You all focused on the culture war stuff. The people in Florida, they’re focusing on who we navigated COVID, how we navigated the economy and what he did for school choice. And they all voted for him. That Republicans nationwide are not rushing to school choice is… just shows you how stupid so many people in the party are. Democrats have, for years, given everything to voters and dared Republicans to take it all back. And when Republicans campaign on taking it all back, they lose. That’s why Donald Trump is out right now telling Republicans, “Don’t campaign on cutting Social Security. Don’t campaign on cutting and reforming Medicare and Medicaid. Don’t you dare do it, you’ll lose.” And Republicans are listening to him.

So, give parents hope for their kid’s future. Give parents the opportunity to get their kids out of failing public schools; Where the schools are now more interested in- in turning your kids woke, than helping your kids not be broke. They want your kids to be indoctrinated, not educated. They want your kids to be down with left-wing groupthink. They don’t want your kids to be on entrepreneurial. They don’t want your kids to learn individual responsibility. They don’t want your kids to learn the basics skills to get a job as an entrepreneur and compete against the big business, no, they want your child enslaved to big business. Teaching them Common Core maths, so they can’t get out on their own. Binding them to the administrative governmental state.

You give parents school choice and watch the GOP become the dominant party, and watch the kids thrive. This is the civil right issue of the day, and I cannot believe Republicans aren’t with the program. I can’t believe Republicans nationwide aren’t pushing this. In my state of Georgia, there’s a headline in the newspaper today, that there’s a renewed push to expand Georgia’s private school tuition subsidies. They want a hundred million dollar increase to Georgia’s Student Scholarship Program. So far, they only secured 20 million dollars. The chief architect of the scale back legislation, John Carson of Marietta, is proposing to expand the cap on the Tax Credit Program from a 120 million to 200 million dollars.

The American Federation of Teachers and The, uh, National Education Association are opposed, but the American Federation for Children supports it. Y’all, I- I can’t emphasize this enough: You’ve got to give school choice. You’ve got to allow parents to get their kids out of these public schools. Do you know where I am in Georgia? On Valentine’s Day last year, an elementary school gym teacher decided, on Valentine’s Day, to bring his first grade students into the gym and show them a video on same-sex love. I’m not making that up.

Parents, many of them didn’t know about it until I talked about it on this program. They found out from their first graders, that’s what happened at that elementary school. And the superintendent of the county education system sent me a very indignant letter.

Erick Erickson radio host:

Upset that I exposed what happened. There are a lot of private schools in that county. There are a lot of private schools that would love to take in Black and Hispanic students who are in those failing public schools, but it’s the Republicans who are blocking them. The Democrats don’t have the votes to stop it. The Republicans could embrace full school choice, and these private schools would bring these kids in, allow them in. Don’t- don’t punish the private schools that are Christian and run according to Christian guidelines, you don’t have to do that. Let ’em in and grow. Let ’em in and grow. Support them. You gotta do that.

This is the civil rights issue of our time. Republicans are failing on this. Don’t heap poor kids in failing public schools, when you have the opportunity to give them access to a private school where they can get a great education and become tomorrow’s entrepreneur. You support your job force, your workforce, your future by giving these kids school choice. Whenever you are nationwide, if you’ve got a Republican legislature and a Republican governor, and that’s the majority of the nation, you should be doing this. So, support tomorrow, today.

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Newly sworn GA GOP Congressman Rich McCormick: We need “immigration reform” – Indians are best immigrants

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GA Congressman Rich McCormick – GA06

Updated, Jan 15, 4:50PM.

*Updated Jan 31, 8:54 AM

I confidently predict U.S. Rep Rich McCormick will vote for amnesty if he gets the opportunity.

 

“McCormick, who is a doctor specialising in emergency medicine, said that they “don’t have the problems other people have when they come to the emergency room for overdoses, because these are the most productive and family-centred.”

Absolutely zero surprise here. As a candidate, Rich McCormick, the new Republican for GA06 (my home district) usually evaded the immigration issue like it was illegal to talk about it. I was introduced to him several times as an authority on the topic. After a nod and a cautious-looking half-grin, he couldn’t get away fast enough.

His first attempt at going to Congress was in the old GA07 and failed. Redistricting found him running again in the more Republican GA06 (McCormick lives in the 9th District). On his first campaign site he was firm that we should deport violent criminals and drug dealers…yada, yada.

Some Republican women I know went ga-ga over him from day one – then got plenty upset what I pointed out that “maybe we should deport all illegal aliens.” I heard “well that’s what he really means, D.A…” or “well, we should deport drug dealers, D.A.” in response.

On immigration, this guy brings to mind Mitt Romney – maybe John Cornyn.

He ran on the fact that he is an MD and a former U.S.M.C pilot. I am not the only person here who reads him as a typical, pandering “yes man” for the special interests. Doubters, stay tuned.

It looks like his (successful) second try to get to Washington didn’t include borders or illegal immigration – violent criminals or not – at all. You can take look to see if I am missing anything on his campaign website “priorities” page.

You can also help me find any mention of the raging border crisis or illegal immigration on his House website “issues” page. (I have a screen grab).

The Forsyth County News has a report on “What Rep. Rich McCormick says he wants to tackle in Congress” –  somebody double check because I see zero mention of borders or immigration (registration to read the report is free and quick).

If it helps make my point here, Georgia Gov. Brain Kemp happily endorsed McCormick.

Maybe somebody can ask Kemp why he would back a candidate for the House of Representatives in Georgia that avoids talk of immigration – in a state with more illegal aliens than Arizona.

You will need to wait for Kemp to return from Davos.

Reward for information, Image, Dustin Inman Society

Here is a bit of insight: Kemp doesn’t talk about illegal immigration in Georgia – ever. Georgia is a sanctuary state.

Evading immigration is not that difficult here – the liberal Atlanta Journal Constitution makes sure of it. Check out the grueling questions set out by the AJC on a 2020 “where do the candidates stand on the issues?” piece – (here).

Now, mid-way through his first month in office McCormick has decided to talk about immigration! As in “immigration reform.” As in “streamline the process” and “we need more Indian immigrants…”

This from the January 14, 2023 Siasat Daily:

Making pitch for immigration reform, U.S. lawmaker says Indians pay 6 pc (percent) of taxes”

 New York: Making a pitch for immigration reforms, a Republican lawmaker has cited the contributions of Indian immigrants, who, he said, pay 6 per cent of taxes in the U.S.

 Saying that the US must “make sure we streamline the immigration process”, Rich McCormick said that Indians “represent some of the best citizens we have in America”.

 “They pay about 6 per cent of the taxes and (are) among the top producers,” he said of the Asian Indians who number 4.5 million, making up 1.4 per cent of the total US population of 333 million.

 The Asian Indians, who number 137,000 in the Atlanta area of his state of Georgia, “do not cause problems and follow laws”, he said.

 McCormick, who is a doctor specialising in emergency medicine, said that they “don’t have the problems other people have when they come to the emergency room for overdoses, because these are the most productive and family-centred”.

 McCormick represents a constituency that encompasses the suburbs of Atlanta, an area that has seen an influx of Asian Indians in recent years, fuelled impart by the growth of the science and technology sectors.

 With the long wait for permanent resident status for Indians, a legislation to make more green cards available for them died in the last Congress session.

 The legislation, which had the backing of members of both parties and President Joe Biden’s administration, would have eliminated the limit of 20,000 green cards for each country with some exceptions.

 The matter is expected to come up again in the current session.” Read it here.

Congressman Dr. Rich McCormick (and most GA GOP voters) needs to get out more. Or maybe not flee the scene when he has a chance to talk to a pro-enforcement authority on immigration. Or at least read The India Times “Illegal Immigration From India To US Doubled In 2022, US Government Data Shows.”

And it would help if the Republican grassroots would find a spine and talk back to the candidates and elected officials who are now allowed to decide what “the issues” are – and it’s seldom immigration enforcement.

Georgia is controlled by Chamber of Commerce Republicans – but not many people outside Georgia are watching the train wreck happening here (not many inside the state either).

I left the ballot on our congressional seat blank in the General Election.

 

Reply to response letter from District Attorney Herb Cranford, Coweta Judicial District – Carroll County complaint

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  • “I challenge the concept that somehow the law requires use of an affidavit, that the auditor’s office is legislatively charged with creating the affidavit for use – but that the issuing agency is not required to use that affidavit.”

 

15 Dec 2022

Mr. John H. Cranford

District Attorney

Coweta Judicial District

Mr. Cranford,

 As promised, I write regarding your response to my complaint against Carroll County government in administering public benefits and the legislative intent and goals of multiple laws intended to ensure those benefits do not go to ineligible applicants. As I noted previously, I do not agree with most of your conclusions, and I respectfully urge you to take a second look at the matter.

I have tried to arrange my points to coincide with the numbered paragraphs in your letter.

1)  OCGA 50-36-1 requires (most) agencies administering public benefits to verify the “lawful presence” of any applicant for public benefits. I believe it is clear that Carroll County did not fulfill that obligation over the course of a decade:

(“b) Except as provided in subsection (d) of this Code section or where exempted by federal law, every agency or political subdivision shall verify the lawful presence in the United States under federal immigration law of any applicant for public benefits.”

The law then mandates a detailed, plain language process for that verification which includes requiring the applicant to swear that he is eligible within the “lawful presence” definition on a standardized affidavit. The law says the source of that affidavit form is the state auditor’s office.

(2) The state auditor shall create affidavits for use under this subsection and shall keep a current version of such affidavits on the Department of Audits and Accounts’ official website.

 I challenge the concept that the law somehow requires use of an affidavit, that the auditor’s office is legislatively charged with creating the affidavit for use – but that the issuing agency is not required to use that affidavit.

A reasonable consideration of the legislative intent and the language of the law seems clear enough. (*1) If the law intended to allow agencies to create their own forms, documents and affidavits bypassing the mandate that the auditor “shall create and keep a current version of such affidavits…” that option would be stated in the law. It seems a difficult stretch to conclude otherwise. There is no language or implication in the law that allows any issuing agency to create their own form or format. Again, to address otherwise this is to infer something that is not stated or even implied in the plain language text of OCGA 50-36-1.

Again, with respect, I regard a legal decision on the above as being within the realm and authority of a court – not an executive branch reading or opinion.

I urge you to reconsider your conclusion on this point.

2) From my Sept. 29, 2022 post “The SAVE affidavit used by Carroll County is not the SAVE affidavit designed by the Dept. of Audits and Accounts – the State Auditor. And in Carroll County there is no requirement for foreigners to complete the affidavit for renewals…”

 OCGA 50-36-1 recognizes that it is not usual for an American to lose U.S. citizenship status but that it does happen (a naturalized citizen may be subject to denaturalization proceedings in court or as a result of a conviction for knowingly obtaining naturalization through fraud under 18 U.S.C. 1425 ) . The law was amended after original passage to allow for that fact and  recognizes that foreign nationals (“foreigners) “lawful presence” status can literally change overnight for a variety of reasons.

The law provides that having proven eligibility through U.S. citizenship in the original application, issue, and verification process, that applicant is not required to prove eligibility again for renewals in the same agency/subdivision.

That provision and exception does not apply to foreigners, and by omission from the last sentence of the below pasted paragraph in the statute, they are required to prove eligibility with all steps of the process for all renewals. (4) The requirements of this subsection shall not apply to any applicant applying for or renewing an application for a public benefit within the same agency or political subdivision if the applicant has previously complied with the requirements of this subsection by submission of a secure and verifiable document, as defined in Code Section 50-36-2, and a signed and sworn affidavit affirming that such applicant is a United States citizen. (Emphasis mine)

 The law does in fact clearly distinguish between citizens and non-citizens regarding whether they must complete a redundant affidavit and/or secure and verifiable ID in the renewal process. To ignore the last words of the above paragraph is not a complete consideration of the law or an accurate response to that part of my column or complaint.

3)  As you noted, the affidavit that I received from Carroll county in my open records request (and have posted on in my Sept 29, 2022 column) “has a Revision Date of 2/25/2020.” You write that it “appears to be in compliance with the requirements of OCGA 50-36-1.” We agree that the “homemade” Carroll County affidavit does not include the sentence contained in the auditor’s version of the affidavit that reads “The undersigned applicant also hereby verifies that he or she is 18 years of age or older and has provided at least one secure and verifiable document, as required by 50-36-1 (f) (l), with this affidavit.

 The secure and verifiable document provided with this affidavit can best be classified as:

Because of that absence, the 4000-ish applicants that I am informed have applied for and been issued public benefits in Carroll County in the last decade have not sworn to the full requirements of verification under the law because Carroll County decided to ignore the affidavit created for use by the state auditor. Whether or not the law required the above entry on the affidavit, it does require the secure and verifiable ID oath process.

This was the exact reason for amending the law to require the creation of a standardized, auditor’s provided affidavit form. I do not regard the Revision date of 2020 as anything other than another indication of Carroll County’s refusal/failure to comply years after the law went into effect.

Respectfully, I do not agree that the Carroll County version seems to be in compliance unless you insist on rejecting the premise that the auditor’s form is not actually created for use (*1 please see above) or that Carroll County somehow has legal authority to not use it. If that authority exists, I hope Carroll County government official can cite it?

Carroll County apparently skipped the entire secure and verifiable ID collection process

Carroll County not only decided not to include the above paragraph in their version of the affidavit, but apparently bypassed the entire process of collecting any secure and verifiable documents until late this year – after I made this atter public and filed my complaint.

I have a recorded acknowledgement of this on audio from a half-hour October 24, 2022 phone conversation initiated by Carroll County officials to me.

You can easily check on this yourself by asking Carroll County to produce the secure and verifiable ID examples collected in the prior to my public concerned citizen investigation.

Ignoring this important security step in administering public benefits is a violation of the law.

I will provide the audio I mention above upon request from your office.

4)  You note that the E-Verify affidavit now posted on the Carroll County website now matches the version provided by the Attorney General’s office. That was not the case last month, as my post explains and illustrates. My original open records request to Carroll County asked for a copy of this affidavit in use. They were unable to provide anything close to the required document – even after a follow-up note from me. Then I was sent an affidavit form that was not in compliance with the law because it wasn’t the affidavit provided by the AG.

As I wrote, I notified one of the Carroll County attorneys of this fact. If they have now begun using the required AG provided affidavit it was after I explained that they were still in violation as you can see from my dated post.

The carelessness and defiance along with the cavalier attitude concerning the law has been evident at Carroll County on this matter since I began my effort to gain compliance early in 2022.

A shorter way to say it is that until I had pursued this to the public complaint level, none of the above was regarded as any sort of problem worthy of concern by elected and appointed officials at Carroll County. They took their time to comply with the rule of law only when it became a public problem for them politically. This is not a luxury enjoyed by taxpaying private citizens.

Allowing this to be ignored and without prosecution is reinforcing the already common attitude in other issuing agencies statewide that “unless we get caught, we can ignore the law designed to deter illegal access to public benefits.”

There are other agencies and political subdivisions within your jurisdiction that are in similar forms of violation of the laws we are discussing here. I mean no offense or disrespect when I note that your move to consider this matter closed will send a clear “we have nothing to worry about…” message to the officials in those agencies if your present consideration becomes more widely publicized.

As I have written to you previously, I do not agree with the conclusions in your investigation. I want to make it clear and repeat that I sent multiple, fact-filled and educated emails to the BOC starting early in 2022 on this matter. I was ignored and brushed off. They only began correcting their documented and admitted violations of multiple laws months later and after I made the issue public and filed my complaint with the sheriff.

It is difficult for reasonable people to regard those reluctant and delayed corrections as “good faith” actions that would allow dismissal of my complaint.

Additions to my complaint – Compliance reports:

 OCGA 50-36-1 contains language that makes it illegal to do what Carroll County has clearly (and admittedly) done for about a decade and after they were repeatedly warned of violation. It also contains a reference to 50-36-4 which was created for the specific purpose of making it seemingly impossible to claim ignorance of the law or it’s violation through the required filing of annual compliance reports with the DCA.

“(k) It shall be unlawful for any agency or political subdivision to provide or administer any public benefit in violation of this Code section. Agencies and political subdivisions subject to the requirements of this subsection shall provide an annual report to the Department of Audits and Accounts pursuant to Code Section 50-36-4 as proof of compliance with this subsection. Any agency or political subdivision failing to provide a report as required by this subsection shall not be entitled to any financial assistance, funds, or grants from the Department of Community Affairs.”

 OCGA 13-10-91 has a similar requirement for the issuing agencies to conduct “self-audits” on compliance:

(A) Public employers subject to the requirements of this subsection shall provide an annual report to the Department of Audits and Accounts pursuant to Code Section 50-36-4 as proof of compliance with this subsection. Subject to available funding, the state auditor shall conduct annual compliance audits on a minimum of at least one-half of the reporting agencies and publish the results of such audits annually on the Department of Audits and Accounts’ website on or before September 30.

I have not yet taken the time to gather any compliance reports Carroll County may have made or to validate the accuracy of their contents. I can inform you that my broaching this part of the law on the phone call I mention above was greeted with what seemed to me like honest ignorance and surprise. I would not be shocked to learn that no such reports were filed.

I hereby respectfully request that you reconsider regarding this matter as “closed” in your office and that you investigate the possibility of violations involving any filing of the required compliance reports and the possibility that if filed, such reports may contain false and fraudulent claims of compliance.

It is difficult to see how Carrol County can openly correct multiple, long-term violations and at the same time file accurate compliance reports.

I apologize for the length of this reply to your letter to me of December 8, 2022. I would be grateful for the promised phone call to me.

I appreciate your straight-forward and patient reply to my complaint. I am also grateful to you for sending my complaint to the Attorney General’s office and trust the same for this letter.

Please be advised that I have posted virtually all information and correspondence relevant to this matter on my website ImmigrationPoliticsGA.com. There is a “roundup” of my columns on the homepage and additional resources can be accessed using “Carroll County” in the search bar. I reserve the privilege of embedding educational links to this letter when it is posted online.

Respectfully submitted with my thanks,

D.A. King

 

Open records request Carroll County OCGA 13-10-91 *Updated with follow up, and response documents

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Updated.

The below open records request was sent Oct. 4, 2020 to Janet Hyde at Carroll County government.

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Ms. Hyde,

Please send me a copy of the Contractor’s Affidavit currently used (as of today’s date) by Carroll County as required by OCGA 13-10-91.
Please send me the same for the Subcontractor Affidavit and the Sub-subcontractor affidavit.
Thank you,
D.A. King
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Reminder sent Oct. 21, 2022:

Ms. Hyde,

I have not received any response to the open records request I sent on Oct. 4, 2022. I assume this is an oversight at your office.
Please send me the copies requested using the documents in place as of the Oct. 4? I there are/were no documents that fit my description and date, please reply with that message?
Thank you,
D.A. King
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Response received October 21, 2022, along with an attachment that contained the two documents pasted below.

On Oct 21, 2022, at 12:24 PM, Janet Hyde <jhyde@carrollcount> wrote:
This was indeed an oversight.  I was out of the office the remainder of that week and overlooked it when I returned to the office.  The documents you requested are attached to this email.  You may also copy Taffeny Johnson, our office manager, at tjohnson@carrollcountyga. com for future open records requests.
Sincerely,
Janet Hyde, County Planner
Carroll County Community Development
423 College Street
Carrollton, GA 30117
(770)830-5861 Ext 2051
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NOTE: Zoning and variance cases are not guaranteed. A development discussion is not an assurance of issuance of a building permit, business license (OTC), or assurance of possible zoning change. The plan review process requires review and acceptance by multiple reviewers before approval.
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Follow up email from my office (I pasted in relevant text from OCGA 13-10-91 for clarity, not pasted here) – the response and copies of documents I received was not related to OCGA 13-10-91:

Ms. Hyde,

Please forgive me for a follow up email, but I want to be clear about my request. I am asking for the affidavit in use on Oct 4, 2022  by  Carroll County as required by OCGA 13-10-91. I have emphasized the relevant language in the law below. Please let me know if your response is intended to fit my request – I want to exclude any possibility of misunderstanding or error on my part.
Thank you,
D.A. King
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Documents sent in response to my request:

 

Meet Victor Armendariz – another “it’s not amnesty” voice?

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I was just listening to a guy from Atlanta named Victor Armendariz sitting in for Erick Erickson on Erickson’s national radio show broadcast here on the liberal WSB-radio, 750AM. He does a good job. The part of the show I heard seemed to be focused on “Hispanic” and/or Mexicans are not the only Hispanics in the USA. Not exactly news but it’s clear he means well. Apparently a Republican, Armendariz says he wants to be called “American.” Cool. Me too.

So I Googled him and see that he ran for congress in Georgia in 2016. A bio piece from now-departed Atlanta Jewish Times editor Mike Jacobs tells us Armendariz supports amnesty/legalization/removal of illegal status (take your pick of terms) – and a path to U.S. citizenship – but is hopeful that the term “amnesty” won’t be used to describe that amnesty idea or process. Like it was for the “one-time” 1986 amnesty that was to end illegal immigration forever.

Victor Armendariz. Photo: AJT

It also looks like he either has not heard of the concept of attrition through enforcement. or that until the Biden administration literally opened the borders (in violation of the constitution and several federal laws) visa overstays were the source of the illegal status of about half of the illegal aliens in the U.S.

Related: I have had some experience with the AJT too – here and here for examples.

“We have a lot of illegals here that are hardworking people,” Armendariz said. “Now I don’t think Americans have a problem with hardworking illegals here and coming up with a workers’ permit plan, which is something I would propose if I made it to Congress, to deal with the ones who are here. Now that’s not counting the ones who are committing crimes here.”

Because Armendariz doesn’t and likely won’t, we note that the use of a false Social Security Number or card is a felony, punishable by a fine, and up to five years in prison – here. Literally every “undocumented worker” is in violation of federal law unless they have never taken a job in the U.S. – which seems to exclude them from the “undocumented worker” category.

Related: A helpful note to all concerned on “crimes” and illegal immigration/illegal employment 

His optimism extends to the immigration debate.

He said he believes that even people who voice adamant opposition to amnesty and insist on rounding up and deporting illegal immigrants would go along with a plan that allowed the noncriminal immigrants to stay and become productive, recognized members of society — as long as the first step is to seal the border against further illegal entry.

“To me, immigration is also a security issue. Look what Israel puts up with on a constant basis,” with bombings, rockets and other terrorist attacks, Armendariz said. “We don’t want that here. … We have to protect the homeland.”

He said it’s not feasible or humane to deport more than 11 million people. He also said that once the border is secure and immigrants are out of hiding, he could see talk turning to a path to citizenship, but he denies that should be considered amnesty.

Put me down as hoping Vitor Armendariz is never elected to political office.

Two illegal aliens were charged after allegedly plotting a mass shooting at a Fourth of July event in Richmond, Virginia

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Georgia is home to more illegal aliens than Arizona

Crimes committed by illegal immigrants surged in 2021 included homicide, sexual assault, and illegal weapons possession

Fox News

July 7, 202

The number of crimes committed by illegal immigrants in the United States surged in fiscal year 2021 after declining in the years before that.

Homicides, assaults, incidents of domestic violence, illegal weapons possession, and sexual offenses committed by illegal aliens all increased dramatically in fiscal year 2021 compared to fiscal year 2020, data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows.

Illegal immigrants committed 1,178 assault and domestic violence crimes in 2021, which represents a more than 400% increase from the 208 in 2020.

Sixty homicide or manslaughter convictions were attributed to illegal immigrants in 2021, a 1,900% increase from the previous year.

ARIZONA AG BRNOVICH URGES GOV. DUCEY TO DECLARE BORDER CRISIS AN ‘INVASION’

Coverage of the border crisis picked up as Title 42 was set to expire. (John Moore/Getty Images)

Driving under the influence convictions rose 347% from 364 to 1,629, and illegal possession of or trafficking of drugs rose 453% from 386 to 2,138.

The number of convictions in every crime category, with the exception of homicides, which rose from two to three from 2019 to 2020, had decreased between 2019 and 2020.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says that officials apprehended 10,763 “criminal noncitizens” in fiscal year 2021, which marks an increase of over 300% from previous years.

Data shows that Border Patrol agents arrested 2,438 criminal noncitizens in 2020, 4,269 in 2019 and 6,698 in 2018.

“The term ‘criminal noncitizens’ refers to individuals who have been convicted of one or more crimes, whether in the United States or abroad, prior to interdiction by the U.S. Border Patrol,” the U.S. government website says

So far in the 2022 fiscal year, which lasts until September 30, 2022, a total of 7,253 criminal noncitizens have been arrested.

SECRETARY MAYORKAS HAS FAILED TO DEFEND OUR HOMELAND AND MUST BE IMPEACHED

Last week, Border Patrol agents announced that they apprehended two sex offenders and nine MS-13 gang members at the southern border as illegal immigration into the United States continues to skyrocket…
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GA07 Candidate Mark Gonsalves Gets Endorsement From Former Gwinnett County Sheriff Butch Conway *Updated: AUDIO of Robo Call

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UPDATE: Corbin lost in a landslide.

Pro-enforcement former sheriff to help Mark Gonsalves with a Robo-Call campaign

Update, June 15 11:15 AM: Here is the audio of retired Gwinnett County sheriff and GA07 voter Butch Conway’s ongoing Robo Call urging support for Mark Gonsalves:

Good news for conservative voters in the Republican run-off in Georgia’s Seventh District: The word this morning from the Mark Gonsalves campaign is that former Gwinnett County Sheriff Butch Conway has endorsed the pro-enforcement congressional candidate Gonsalves.

Mark Gonsalves. Photo: Twitter.

Conway confirms the endorsement and says his support is largely based on Gonsalves pro-enforcement outlook on illegal immigration.

“Yes, I have endorsed him based on all his positions to include strict enforcement of our immigration laws. Corbin is too soft on immigration and won’t fix our problems, only prolonging the huge expenses of Biden’s border policies”

Sheriff Conway reports he is in the process of recording a Robo Call campaign urging voters to support Gonsalves.

Conway, a well-respected Republican served as a tough law and order sheriff for a quarter century in the Metro-Atlanta county and retired in 2021. Known for a no nonsense stand on illegal immigration, Conway had operated the life-saving 287(g) program in his jail since 2010. The cooperation between the Gwinnett jail and federal immigration enforcement officials resulted in removing thousands of dangerous criminal aliens from the county, often resulting in deportations. The current Gwinnett Sheriff, Democrat Keybo Taylor ended the 287(g) arrangement with a large press conference on his first day in office in 2021.

Mark Gonsalves and opponent Michael Corbin are locked in a run-off race to oppose liberal Democrat Lucy McBath in November. Corbin has become known for his support for repeating the failed 1986 amnesty for illegal aliens who have made their way onto the U.S. and making it clear he does not support sending troops to  the southern border. On the illegals already here, Corbin told a room in John’s Creek in April that the solution is to “naturalize them.”

“Naturalize them” GOP candidate for congress, Michael Corbin. Photo: Ballotpedia

Having included that policy in at least one recorded campaign speech to curious voters and posted it on Twitter, Corbin reversed himself last week and said his words were ‘taken out of context.” We have created a timeline of Corbin’s self-opposing positions on amnesty. He also has a race-baiting problem. Corbin’s wife is a Democrat and the word from concerned Republican election experts is that his campaign has solicited cross-over votes and that about 3000 Dems crossed over to support Corbin in the May 24 primary. That maneuver is expected to be repeated in the June 21st run-off.

Ola Nesheiwat Hawatmeh. Photo: Facebook.

The Corbin campaign is managed by Ola Nesheiwat Hawatmeh out of New York.

On immigration Gonsalves takes a more pro-American position and reflects on his campaign site: “I stand with those who believe our sovereign nation has the right and an obligation to enforce its immigration law.” Gonsalves tells this writer he supports the “attrition through enforcement” approach to fighting illegal immigration. According to DHS estimates Georgia is home to more illegal aliens than Arizona with Gwinnett having the largest illegal population in the state.

The GA07 District was recently redrawn to be majority Democrat by the state legislature.

Mark Gonsalves has also been endorsed by a variety of conservative Republicans, including retired senior immigration enforcement agent, Georgian Robert Trent. Trent copied us on a note he sent to GA07 GOP runoff candidate Mark Gonsalves. A combat Marine, Trent is a former Border Patrol Agent who worked on both the northern and southern borders, was Senior Special Agent in the INS and retired as the Assistant Director for Enforcement Training at the U.S. Immigration Officers Academy, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Glynco, GA.

We support Gonsalves in the run-off election.

dak

 

 

 

 

Timeline: Republican candidate for congress Michael Corbin’s flip-flop on amnesty for illegal aliens – links and VIDEO #GA07

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Screen shot: GA07 Republican candidate Michael Corbin presenting that day’s position on illegal aliens who make it into the U.S.: “Naturalize them” he said. Johns Creek, GA. Wednesday April 20, 2022 7:00pm to 9:00p Groomsbridge Clubhouse 10150 Groomsbridge Rd, Johns Creek, GA 30022 within the Medlock Bridge subdivision. (full video here)
Candidates: Michael Corbin, Mark Gonsalves, Lisa McCoy, YG Nyghtstorm, Mary West attending and pictured.

UPDATE:

1) A reminder that anything-for-a-buck  Ola Nesheiwat Hawatmeh was campaign manager for “naturalize them” Michael Corbin – #GA07.

2) Former Acting ICE Director Tom Homanunder Pres. Trump and retired Gwinnett Sheriff Butch Conway  both endorsed Corbin’s opponent, Mark Gonsalves.

3) Corbin lost the runoff in a landslide – 70% to 30%.

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For readers new to the campaign antics of Republican Michael Corbin, we link to a recent fact-filled column from Inger Eberhart: “GOP runoff in Georgia’s CD07 sees false charges of “racism” and a push for immigration amnesty.”

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 We welcome all newstips on today’s position on amnesty for millions of illegal aliens from Michael Corbin.

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Michael Corbin:

Wednesday April 20, 2022 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Groomsbridge Clubhouse 10150 Groomsbridge Rd, Johns Creek, GA 30022

“For me, it’s pretty easy… I don’t believe in sending troops to the border. 

I think it’s a slippery slope and just think we need to change our policies. We need to have a policy on how do we get these people legal and it needs to be okay that there is a path and a process to get them back into legal status. 

Are you gonna just kick em out?  I mean how many people do you think that’ll affect? The way is to naturalize them. Stop it. Stop the Bleeding. And find a way to naturalize the people who are here.”

Video.

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“Naturalize them” GOP candidate for congress, Michael Corbin. Photo: Ballotpedia

Michael Corbin on his Twitter feed (@Corbin4Congress), June 7, 2022:

* Related: More on Michael Corbin and his race-baiting campaign tactics

  • Related: A retired senior federal immigration enforcement officer writes a note on * Michael Corbin

 

 

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Michael Corbin speaking at the Saturday breakfast Fulton County Republican meeting, June 11, 2022 – after we drew attention to his amnesty/”naturalize them” statements on illegal aliens who make it into the United States:

“I’m not for amnesty. *I’m not for open borders . My words were taken out of context at the forum we had at John’s Creek.”

*We note that it’s good to hear about Corbin’s current position against open borders but it’s a diversionary, straw man comment. Nobody we know of has said he supports open borders)

Video (starts at 6:50).

Anti-enforcement immigration activist announces run for Georgia state senate #JasonEsteves #GALEO

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Update: Feb 10, 2023. Esteves is now a state senator in Georgia.

Jason Esteves immediate past Chairman of GALEO board

 Add this name to the long watch list in Georgia’s increasingly turbulent political scene. Jason Esteves, former Chair and a current “board member at large” of the far-left, corporate-funded GALEO Inc. has launched his campaign for the state senate. Esteves is currently the Atlanta School Board president.

Jason Esteves. Photo: Ballotopedia

Current state Sen. Jen Jordan is leaving her Senate district to run for state attorney general. Esteves seeks to replace her in the east Cobb/Fulton County District 6.

Readers may remember that another GALEO board member, then State Court Judge Dax Lopez, saw his Obama nomination for a seat on the U.S. District Court in Georgia’s Northern District sink in early 2016 as a direct result of his ties to the extremist outfit. Now candidate for governor and then U.S. Senator and Judiciary Committee member David Perdue bravely nixed the confirmation in the face of the establishment push for Republican Lopez’ approval.

There was massive opposition to the Lopez pick from conservative elected officials and howls from the GOP grassroots.

GALEO is known for advancing the cause of driver’s licenses for illegal aliens and lobbying against immigration enforcement, voter ID, official English for government and ICE holds. But they do support immigration amnesty. While smearing law enforcement officers, GALEO leadership joined the ACLU and the SPLC in a lawsuit against Georgia’ 2011 (HB 87) ‘Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act.’

Full disclosure: Including with our “Beginner’s Guide to GALEO,” the Dustin Inman Society of which this writer is president and founder led the fight against putting a GALEO board member and fundraiser on the federal bench.

Related: History and agenda of the above mentioned MALDEF

 

GALEO’s CEO Jerry Gonzalez brought focus to the group after he escorted illegal aliens into the state senate chamber to lobby against a 2006 bill (SB 529) targeting illegal immigration. In 2011 the Rome Tribune reported that security officials had escorted an angry Gonzalez from Coosa Country Club after he screamed at diminutive state Rep. Katie Dempsey at a lunch meeting focused on use of the E-Verify system for employment eligibility verification.

Voters may want to gauge judgment and priorities by noting that their reputation did not stop senate candidate Jason Esteves from later joining the GALEO board.

Esteves is also chairman of GALEO’s innocuously named but well funded ‘Latino Development Fund,’ which is dedicated to training future community organizers to follow up on the path set by Gonzalez.

GALEO boasts of its partnership with UGA’s J.W. Fanning Institute in this education. See also the ‘GALEO Leadership Council’ – “develop your leadership skills and support the Latinx community in Georgia.”

Sam Zamarripa, who went on to become a state senator known for opposition to immigration enforcement founded GALEO in 2003. Jane Fonda is but one American luminary on the long (and perhaps surprising, to many) list of “Founding Friends’ (#32).

*Update, Dec 17, 2021. Related: GALEO CEO Jerry Gonzalez wrote a guest column posted Dec. 15 on the liberal Georgia Recorder website urging the U.S. Senate to pass the amnesty provisions in the Democrat “Build Back Better” bill and to use that as a “stepping stone” to “passing citizenship for all.” That’s right. All. Everybody. Including the illegal aliens flooding the southern border right now. And tomorrow. And next year. It’s open borders. Read Jerry’s words here. We happily note that the Senate parliamentarian killed the amnesty provision in the ‘BBB’ bill last night. 

Sam Zamarripa. Photo: The Daily Caller

“I’m running for state senate to fight for a brighter future,” says Esteves who serves as Treasurer of the Democratic Party of Georgia. “In his first year (as Atlanta School Board Chair – 2018), the Board adopted an Equity Policy and Anti-Racism Resolution that eventually led to the creation of the Center for Equity and Social Justice. He oversaw the process of renaming buildings with hurtful legacies,” reads his campaign site. 

We may have lost count, but it appears that if he were to be elected, it would make at least three GALEO-associated state senators. Esteves would join former GALEO board member and Founding Friend Jason Anavitarte and Founding Friend Nan Orrock in the Georgia senate.

D.A. King is proprietor of ImmigrationPoliticsGA.com and president of the Dustin Inman Society.

A version of this column originally ran on the subscription news outlet Insider Advantage Georgia December 10, 2021. 

 

 

 

 

 

Biden’s Amnesty to Cost Americans Nearly $500B Over 20 Years

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Breitbart News

John Binder

Dec. 6, 2021

A plan by President Joe Biden to give amnesty to millions of illegal aliens would cost American taxpayers nearly $500 billion over the course of two decades, a new analysis reveals.

Late last month, House Democrats passed the filibuster-proof “Build Back Better” reconciliation package which includes an amnesty for nearly seven million illegal aliens. Effectively, millions of illegal aliens would be able to secure parole through the legislation and thus be shielded from deportation while gaining work permits to compete against working class Americans for jobs.

CIS

Center for Immigration Studies

CIS Director of Research Steven Camarota writes that much of the cost is a result of the amnesty’s opening a number of federal welfare programs to illegal aliens:

The primary reason a parole amnesty would result in large new expenditures according to the CBO is that amnesty recipients would be able to receive Affordable Care Act subsidies, Medicaid, the Earned Income and Child Tax Credits, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, often called food stamps), Social Security, and Medicare to a much greater extent than they would without legal status. [Emphasis added]

Though providing a look into the fiscal cost of the amnesty plan, the CBO figures do not factor in the millions to billions in lost wages and jobs that such a plan may have as illegal aliens would be legally allowed to compete for jobs against Americans.

Specifically, the amnesty would allow illegal aliens to obtain work permits, driver’s licenses, and documents to travel abroad for at least a decade so long as they can prove that they have been residing in the United States since 2010…

More here.