Happy 103rd birthday to Beverly Cleary! Ellen Tebbits is my favorite (not just because the concept of long underwear mystified me as a kid on the Gulf Coast) but Ramona endures, & that series resonates almost more to me as a parent as it did when I was a kid.
Watching
@GabrielSterling
on
@MeetThePress
& he said that in GA there are bad things happening “on all sides.”
No. Full stop. No. Demonstrate to me with evidence that Democrats are threatening the lives of our elected officials, & you. It’s just not true.
#thishastostop
#gapol
This may be one of the absolute dumbest things I have seen since this whole shitshow started. This is a screenshot from a presentation at the Senate hearing happening now. Buckhead, GA in Morgan County is not the same place as the Buckhead community in ATL. I mean FTLOG.
#gapol
I just scrolled through the Governor’s Twitter acct (campaign, not official) & in the last several weeks he’s talked about issues that range from suing Biden to 🏈 to Afghanistan but he has not once shared information on how Georgians can get vaccinated, or why they should.
I am also incredibly proud to be a co-sponsor of this bill, which defers a pregnant woman’s sentenced confinement in a penal institution until 6 wks post-partum. It is the result of years of hard work &bipartisan collaboration & dedication to the dignity of all women.
#gapol
Please. This latest theory is insanity.
Everyone knows that if Jen Psaki’s daily briefings were actually filmed in Georgia, they’d flash the GA Film Commission Peach at the end of every presser.
the new Trump diehard theory is that Joe Biden was repelled from entering 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue by "the military" on inauguration day and has been living in an 80% replica scale model of the White House on Tyler Perry's Atlanta estate.
So, like, literally NO ONE is calling to shut down the economy. It is pretty clear that everyone wants to keep kids in school face-to-face & keep businesses open. What I hear people — myself included — asking for is common-sense mitigation: masks & vax & tests for the unvaxed.
“I want to reiterate that Georgia will remain open for business. We will not shut businesses down. We will not prevent families from earning a paycheck,” said
@GovKemp
.
#gapol
A COVID-19 outbreak in at a very popular and well-known YMCA summer camp in here in Georgia resulted in a 44% infection rate (out of 597 campers, staffers, and counselors). The rate for kids aged 6-10 - you know, the kids who aren't supposed to get it? 51%. FIFTY-ONE.
#gapol
“If male lawmakers had a better understanding of reproduction maybe they would finally regulate the ‘pink tax,’ [where] women’s hygiene products are priced 13% > than men’s,& tampons are taxed as if they’re luxury goods rather than biological necessities.”
Demonstrate to me, with evidence, that Biden supporters are perpetuating vile and viscous lies and conspiracy theories about a dead boy, or about a GA State Senator.
@GabrielSterling
, your response to
@chucktodd
was wholly and completely irresponsible and wrong.
#gapol
I am *thrilled* to be at the White House this morning to celebrate the Atlanta Braves, America’s baseball team, winning the World Series! ⚾️ 🇺🇸 🏆
#gapol
If your kids are such delicate flowers that (unlike millions of other kids in GA) they just can't bear to endure a piece of cloth over their face, there may be bigger issues at play that parents may want to address.
If GA parents want to drive drunk with their kids in the car, or want to let their toddler bop around the backseat unrestrained, should we also respect their freedom to make what they think are the best choices for their children?
#gapol
“The wellbeing of our children - and their short and long-term development and education - are squarely at risk by requiring them to wear a mask for the upcoming school year,” wrote future Republican LG candidate
@burtjonesforga
.
#gapol
“The GOP Is the party of life.”
“The GOP is the party of American values.”
“The GOP is the party of law and order.”
Get out of here with that nonsense.
I’m ready to vote against
#HB531
.
HB 531 is a bill that is predicated on a foundation of falsehoods. It is performative pablum that in no way reflects good policy.
#gapol
State of the State just wrapped. My initial reaction? I heard talk about babies in the womb, and the babies who are born. But I did not hear one mention of the women who carry and give birth to those babies. Maternal mortality is a stain on our state & we *must* address it.
#gapol
These people testifying are the absolute embodiment of the adage, "Often wrong, never in doubt." The guy testifying now is not only cartographically challenged, but breathtakingly arrogant. Good God.
A Cobb County GOP committee is holding a Jan. 6 program and candlelight vigil for the “J6 patriots” in the violent mob that overran the Capitol. The Cobb GOP was once the heart of the mainstream GOP in Georgia, but Trump’s rise has pulled the local party to the far right.
#gapol
@mattholt33
In Cobb County we have an honorary commander program so county business leaders can learn more about how the military impacts our county & I can tell you for a fact that none of the program participants actually think they are in the military.
Okay so I watched the Perdue video and it’s unsurprisingly extra — & while I have the feeling that he’s not picturing middle-aged suburban moms like me who carpool & knit & drive station wagons when he obsesses about “the woke left,” boy howdy, he should.
To be extra clear, the cities with the highest infection rate per capita IN THE WORKD are, in order:
1) Wuhan, China
2) Lombardi region, Italy
3) NY, NY, USA
4) Albany, GA, USA
So, yeah, the Waffle Houses are closed.
#gapol
I’m thinking that I should probably keep my copy of
@DrJenGunter
’s The Vagina Bible down at my office because if the ‘20 session is anything like ‘19, it may come in handy as either a reference, or toss in the general direction of anyone who disputes biology. (Kidding! OR AM I?)
“If male lawmakers had a better understanding of reproduction maybe they would finally regulate the ‘pink tax,’ [where] women’s hygiene products are priced 13% > than men’s,& tampons are taxed as if they’re luxury goods rather than biological necessities.”
I had a joke about serving in the minority party in the Georgia House but it got stuck in committee and then a Republican took my language, put it in their bill, and got it passed.
1 dead, 4 critically injured, homes & schools locked down & terrified, parks & playgrounds closed, kids baseball & soccer practice canceled, graduating HS senior events canceled, legions of LEOs at risk… at least there’s total freedom for anyone who wants a gun, right?
#gapol
Perdue and Harris have served in the US Senate together since 2017.
My surname is tricky, but I can show you 100 or so GOP GA General Assembly members who can pronounce it correctly. David Perdue did this just to be rude and to pander to the most base, racist faction in the GOP.
I am telling y’all, & this is not hyperbole, that there are men in the GA General Assembly who are absolutely okay with women dying as a result of a ruptured ectopic pregnancy.
There are 100K ectopic pregnancies each year. You most likely know a woman who has survived one.
If someone tells you there was any kind of voter fraud in GA, widespread or otherwise, related to drop boxes or absentee ballots or dead voters or whatever — that person is lying to you.
#gapol
@KojudoReloaded
@DrJenGunter
Tampons are considered to be a medical device. In Georgia, where I live, nearly all other medical devices, but not tampons, are tax-exempt.
Hey kids! Come learn about flipping the senate with us, it’s fun AF! Don’t believe the polls. Trump has inverted reality. Help get out the vote in swing states from wherever you are. Sign up with
#CreateTheOutcome
#FlipTheSenate
#GOTV
Parents will definitely want to dissuade those kids from a career in medicine, for sure. Those doctors & nurses are bonkers about masks, the surgeons especially.
It was an honor to be sworn in to the GA House to continue representing HD42, which I was first elected to represent in ‘17, for the ‘21-‘22 Biennium.
@csanulewicz
has held the Bible every time I’ve been sworn in; his support for me is constant, & I am so grateful to him.
Serious question: would
@BrianKempGA
host a conversation between vaccine hesitant Georgians & physicians? A prime time thing on one of the major networks, or GPB so it can easily be broadcasted statewide? People share why they resist the vax & MDs can address their concerns.
You know, I currently serve with people - in both parties - who served with
@CollinsforGA
when he served in the Ga House, and many of them say that when you drill down to it, he’s a good and decent person.
I disagree with these colleagues.
RIP to the more than 30 million innocent babies that have been murdered during the decades that Ruth Bader Ginsburg defended pro-abortion laws. With
@realDonaldTrump
nominating a replacement that values human life, generations of unborn children have a chance to live.
…and now they can’t vote in the Dem runoff.
Look, I get the impulse to pull a GOP ballot, but we have some amazing Dems like
@BeeForGeorgia
&
@erickallen
running in crowded primary fields where there will likely be a runoff. There’s strategic, & there’s short-sighted.
#gapol
Anyone who has been in the general vicinity of a little kid knows that it can be a real pain in the neck to make them wear shoes, or pants. Yet somehow parents manage (most of the time) to get their kid shod and be-pantsed.
Yesterday was a day to lawfully & peacefully fulfill our sacred duty to defend election integrity.
Instead, a peaceful protest was hijacked by bad actors — some reportedly masquerading as Trump supporters.
I CONDEMN political violence.
God bless America & US Capitol Police.
Everyone - E V E R Y O N E - in Georgia should speak out against these treats of violence. No one should risk doxxing for asking questions in a hearing. It’s disgusting & it’s disheartening to see such utter, complete silence from rank & file elected Republicans - her colleagues!
All the very best prayers, thoughts, and wishes for
@JovitaMoore
this morning.
If you’re not from here, know that ATLiens will rally around Jovita as if she were 1,000 Krispy Kremes. Jovita Moore is as Atlanta as Waffle House, Coke, & trains. Plus she’s a kind, generous human.
Dear children, all I want for Mother’s Day is to sleep in, a nice brunch — and also systemic acknowledgment that caregiving is an economic issue.
#MothersDay2021
This loss made my heart crack. Georgia - Democrats and Republicans - is a better place for Bob Trammell’s service to our state. Bob is a statesman, and not having him there in January will be *deeply* felt in the Georgia House.
With all counties in the district fully reported, it looks as if Georgia Democratic State House Minority Leader Bob Trammell has lost his re-election bid to Republican David Jenkins.
The
@RSLC
committed $1 million to the race, its top target nationally.
#gapol
SB 233, the school voucher bill, should be called the "GA *False* Promise Scholarship Act" because that's what it is. No student in Cobb County, for example, would qualify for one of these vouchers. If a student does live somewhere that qualifies, there's no guarantee that 1/
These cuts include $1 billion from public education. To vote for these cuts without even considering raising the tobacco tax (even to the national average!) or reviewing tax credits is governing malpractice.
This is terrorism. The women who study at Spelman College, the faculty, the staff -- NONE of them should have to face threats to their lives in order to learn, to teach, to work.
I dearly hope an arrest is made soon.
#HBCU
#HWC
#GAPOL
Watching Lawmakers on
@gpbnews
and listening to GOP leaders talking about how
#HB531
would restore confidence in our elections.
Y’all know what would’ve restored confidence in our elections? How about TELLING THE TRUTH about how they are ALREADY safe and secure!
#gapol
This morning I’m thinking about my GOP colleagues in GA who, back in 2019, privately indicated that they knew HB 481 was bad policy but that it ultimately didn’t matter because the Supreme Court would never overturn Roe.
#gapol
That photo is a little boy named Wyatt. He lived with his family in Calhoun, GA, and was 5 when he died of COVID a few weeks ago. “If more people in the community were vaccinated, it is less likely the disease would have traveled to the Calhoun boy, experts say.”
I’m a
@CobbSchools
parent so I received the district-wide email that the district sent on behalf of
@FMGLaw
to every parent in the district this past Friday. As you might imagine, I have thoughts.
#gapol
We are headed into the weekend with ICU beds in GA at 98% capacity. We know that ERs throughout GA are treating people in the waiting room, & patients are waiting in ambulances outside of hospitals because there’s not enough room in the bays. Please, get vaccinated & wear a mask.
I’ve spend the past 16 or so hours reflecting on the SB 140 hearing yesterday and one thing that occurred to me is that what that bill really is, is a job protection act. 1/
#gapol
.
@senatorjen
on Republican state lawmakers' role in spreading dangerous misinformation about the election: "Members of this body aided and abetted the spread of information. They gave oxygen to a lie."
#gapol
Born and raised on the Gulf Coast and I wholeheartedly agree that a whole lot of good people there and throughout the southern US were absolutely used for political gain.
No question in my mind that those sicko conservative news channels based in NYC and an Ivy League educated governor or two were predatory and saw them as dispensable for their filthy lucre and political gains. I don’t think I can ever forgive them
“We have been invaded by people that aren’t Southerners. And their thought process is just different. They’re bringing a different mindset to Georgia in massive numbers.”
#gapol
It’s been a long, stressful year
+my oldest is only at home for a few more years
+ happened to have some Costco Cash
—————————————————
We are the Big Candy House
Perhaps it’s because I’m from the region in question, but how exactly does one become unable to “handle” the “regional associations” of the inclusive “y’all” - unless you harbor some seriously entrenched bias towards the southern US? 🤔
CC:
@BitterSouth
For the folks accusing those opposed to SB 202 of regurgitating Stacey Abrams' talking points & are shocked - shocked, I say! - by the notion that independently thinking & intelligent people could look at the same pile of horse manure & make similar conclusions: BLESS YOUR HEARTS
Happy birthday to
@senatorjen
! She’s warm, she’s funny, and she’s one of the most tenacious women I know. She’s an amazing senator, and an even better friend!
While my colleagues
@erickallen
and
@senatorjen
and I get things moving on renaming the Lester & Virginia Maddox Bridge for Henry Louis Aaron, you can brush up on exactly why the name needs to be changed:
People who think women just randomly get an abortion when they are 9 months pregnant are people who are blessed to have apparently never known anyone whose pregnancy turned tragic.
I am constantly enraged by old white men talking about women's healthcare like this. Stop with the "infanticide" BS or "abort at the 9th month". THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN unless it's a crisis. Talk to women about real life.
@RenittaShannon
thank you for speaking TRUTH.
“Republican territory?” Not exactly. Please consider this your periodic reminder that Braves Country is represented in the Georgia House and Senate by two lady Democrats. (cc:
@senatorjen
)
#ChopOn
#relentless
#gapol
I'm overwhelmed by all of the kind calls, texts, DMs, and emails I've received in the past day or so! I'm working on getting back to everyone; in the meantime, I'm doing great, and if you want to hear more, catch up with today's
@PoliticallyGa
Today on Politically Georgia, we talked to
@tanulewicz
about her losing her primary.
Plus,
@FitzTrubey
and
@MichaelKanell
talk about Georgia's economy and inflation.
And, we talk abotu Nikki Haley saying she'll vote for Trump in November.
#gapol
Key point:
*Right now*, Abortion is still legal in GA while HB 481 proceeds through the appellate courts. We don’t have a trigger bill like many other states.
That’s the immediate-term. Long term, women in GA need to prepare for a post-Roe reality — and so does GA.
#gapol
Not to mention strapping your kid into a carseat. My WORD.
@csanulewicz
once had to carry our banshee honey badger toddler 0.3 miles home from a burrito place like a sack of potatoes because he refused to be strapped in.
🎯NDRC TARGET VICTORY 🎯
The fight goes on! Congratulations to
#DemocracyDefender
Teri Anulewicz (
@tanulewicz
) for winning reelection in Georgia’s State House District 42 and working to preserve and protect democracy in Georgia!
Congratulations to
@NabilahIslam
on becoming our Democratic nominee for Senate District 7 in
#Gwinnett
. I called her today to concede, and I look forward to now helping Democrats up and down the ballot win in November!
#gapol
Democratic opponents are cheering the (initial) defeat of the measure, but
@GovKemp
is about to twist some GOP arms during his upcoming address to the Georgia House. This will be a major test of his clout.
#gapol
Well. This is deeply troubling.
I am a double-masker. I have one N95 mask, and I cover it with a homemade cloth surgical mask to keep the N95 from getting grotty. An (unmasked) Sen asked me last week why I wearing 2 masks. I asked him if he only loads his gun with one bullet.
I asked a Capitol police officer when I was here on Saturday why none of them were wearing masks.
His response: Because we don't have to. Besides. That virus isn't real.
Me: 😳