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In this morning’s Telegraph, Senator Robert Brown rejected as “demeaning” the notion of any aplology for slavery:
“Slavery was the most heinous crime that’s been committed in the annals of history. To me, it’s demeaning to think that an apology would be an appropriate response for that.”
Brown said Wednesday he’d vote against any resolution calling [...]

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Travis Fain, the Telegraph’s reporter at the Georgia Legislature, is busy. Tomorrow, Friday, is the last day of the legislative session and Governor Perdue has just vetoed the budget. But Speaker of the House Glenn Richardson has said that everybody is going home on Friday budget or no budget.
Another big story is that [...]

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You are aware that State Senator Robert Brown, D-Macon, introduced the following legislation in the State Senate:
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 8 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to buildings and housing, so as to prohibit the naming of any public building, site, structure, road, highway, street, intersection, [...]

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In More on King’s veto of a small City Council, we sampled how other cities in Georgia handled in-ward vs at-large city council election choices:

The unified government of Augusta-Richmond County has eight commissioners, none of which are at-large.
The Columbus Consolidated Government has ten members of its City Council, including only two at-large districts (and that’s [...]

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(Also to be known as “A Resolution to Help Us Save Our Butts”)
“WHEREAS, we voted with all other City Council members to reduce the Macon City Council size from 15 to 11 by eliminating the Post 1 citywide seats and retaining the Post 2 and Post 3 seats elected from within each city ward; and
“WHEREAS, [...]

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To review, State Senator Robert Brown, the Last King of Macon, has exercised his regal veto of the City Council’s previous 14-0 vote to downsize itself from 15 to 11 members. the King wants to downsize City Council his way or no way. Here are the choices:
The City Council’s way:

Do away with at-large [...]

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State Senator Robert Brown, the Last King of Macon, has exercised his royal veto of a measure passed unanimously by the Macon City Council to reduce its size (!) from 15 to 11 members. The measure had been approved by the Bibb House delegation and Bibb State Senator Cecil Staton.
“I am the King of [...]

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