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Issue # 324 February 8, 2012

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In This Issue:
Obamney Unmasked Math of the Nomination Unfettered Authority The Vote Pirates Savaging Newt Senior Republican Network Veterans Wall Update Non-responsive Officials Attack on Religious Liberty Why Media Want Romney Romneys Cheap & Empty Win Romneys Team Donate to Obama Meet & Greet for Bo Moss Gary Barham for 3rd District Gas Tax to Promote T-SPLOST? Clint Eastwood on Super Bowl Ad GOP Enthusiasm Gap? KBN Television Coming to Charter What is Mayor Jere Wood Smoking?

"A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?" ~ Cicero

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The Math of the GOP Nomination

nomination, would be a gross understatement. There are a few possibilities for Super Tuesday. One possibility is that a single candidate wins all of the Super Tuesday states - unlikely. The more likely scenario is that the states split. If that happens, the main focus will be on Ohio, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and GEORGIA. A sweep of these four states would be big. They represent 243 delegates - likely more than any one candidate will have heading into Super Tuesday. Even then, it is a long way from locking down the nomination. Then, beginning on Super Tuesday through March 10, there is the Wyoming caucus (29 delegates). Just four days after Super Tuesday, on March 10, 2012, there are caucuses in Guam (9 delegates), Kansas (40 delegates) and the Virgin Islands (9 delegates). On March 13, 2012, there are more southern primaries in Alabama (50 delegates) and Mississippi (40 delegates) and caucuses in Hawaii (20 delegates) and American Samoa (9 delegates). Then the pace really picks up. During the balance of March, there are 3 primaries. In April, there are 9 with the biggest prize being Texas with a whopping 155 delegates. In all, 484 delegates are selected in April. May has 7 primaries with June (and its 5 primaries) containing the biggest prize - California with another whopping number - 172 delegates. In all, 615 delegates get picked in May and June - over half the number needed for the nomination.. The last GOP primary is on June 26, 2012 in Utah. In 2008, the Democratic nomination contest between Senator Barack Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton extended into June. It ended up being 'Super delegates' that put Senator Obama over the top. (Super delegates are delegates by status, like party chairs, not election.) Senator Clinton did not formally end her bid for the Democratic nomination until June 7, 2008 - four days after winning the South Dakota primary. It is always possible that there might not be a Republican nominee until the Republican National Convention. Insiders call this a 'brokered convention.' Basically, there are around 412 Super delegates (which means they could put a candidate over the top or decide to be kingmakers at the Convention). While cable news producers dream of a 'brokered convention,' it is very unlikely. Instead, look for the Super Tuesday states to set the stage for the GOP's 2012 nominee.

J. Randolph Evans Column No. 1106 (2/3/12) - UPDATED through Nevada Caucuses For all the 2012 GOP candidates, it is the math that makes securing the nomination so complicated. There will be 2,165 delegates to the Republican National Convention in August in Tampa, Florida. In order to win the Republican Nomination, a Presidential candidate must have 1,144 delegates. To put this in perspective, only 131 delegates (less than 10%) have been won. In fact, the candidate with the most delegates (former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney) has only 81 delegates. This seems rather amazing given all of the media attention so far. From the Iowa caucuses to the Florida primary to the Nevada caucuses seems like an eternity for most voters, yet there are still 45 more states (plus American territories) to go. Already, there have been more swings than the crazy boat ride at White Water park. Just when the media thinks things are sewn up, voters send the signal that they are not done yet. Between now and Super Tuesday, there will be four caucuses - Maine (24 delegates), Colorado (36 delegates), Minnesota (40 delegates) and Washington (43 delegates) - and two primaries, Arizona (29 delegates) and Michigan (30 delegates). These four caucuses (before being apportioned) decide just 143 delegates. The primaries decide just 59. The total is 202 delegates - if all the contests were winnertake all. With the single exception of Arizona, they are not. Instead, states apportion between the winner and the other candidates receiving votes. (To put it in context, if Governor Romney wins the 2012 caucuses by his 2008 margins, he has around 135 delegates). Basically, none of the candidates will have much more than about 200 delegates coming into Super Tuesday . That is less than 20% of the delegates needed to win the nomination. Then comes March 6, 2012 - Super Tuesday. Caucuses will be held in Alaska, Idaho, and North Dakota. Combined, those states pick 87 delegates. To put that number in context, Georgia alone picks 76 delegates. The other big GOP delegate prizes on Super Tuesday are Ohio (with 66 delegates); Tennessee (58 delegates); Virginia (49 delegates); Oklahoma (43 delegates); Massachusetts (41 delegates); and Vermont (17 delegates). In all, on Super Tuesday, 436 delegates are at play - almost 4 times the number selected to date. By the time Super Tuesday is over, 22 states will have held either caucuses or primaries. To say that Super Tuesday will have a major impact, if not decide the GOP

The Hack Line

http://charlesmobley.wordpress.com/2012/02/05 /absolute-unfettered-authority/ Absolute Unfettered Authority Looks like if HOUSE BILL 475 passes down at the capital the Henry county Development Authority could get into the transportation project arena with public private financing. From the Atlanta Business Chronicle: The bill, which passed 132-28 and now goes to the Senate, would give development authorities the ability to decide whether transportation projects proposed by private developers or public-private partnerships are of sufficient public interest to qualify for taxpayer-funded bonds.

counties you really don't get a vote and there is no county opt-out clause. 100% of the legislature supported a county opt-out clause, but the sponsors of the Bill successfully blocked an up/down vote. There is plenty of loot in Piracy. Vote NO TSPLOST.

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Aye matey! Its vote like a Pirate day on July 31, 2012. This is the day that Georgians will go to the polls to impose a 1% sales tax on themselves called T-SPLOST. The problem is your vote will not count for much if you live in a small county. The Georgia Constitution is remarkable in that it allows for Home Rule or county selfdetermination. It has been that way since Georgia started chartering counties. This Regional vote scheme of T-SPLOST completely dismantles Home Rule and disenfranchises thousands of voters. Many believe it violates the Georgia Constitution. T-SPLOST lumps counties into Georgia's 12 Regions set up in the early 1970's during the Carter administration to deliver social services. These regions are not re drawn and proportionally balanced by population, as we do all congressional districts, state house districts, senate districts, and county commission districts. This means the votes from rural counties don't count for much. Your vote will be overridden by the large counties in your Region. For example, in Region 3 if Gwinnett, Fulton, Cobb, and Dekalb counties vote 67% YES for the T-SPLOST, it can't be reversed by all the other counties voting NO. If you live in the other

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to speak his mind. Naturally he made enemies, some within his own party. And it is those enemies and their successors who are out to get Newt's scalp today. Moreover, it is important to remember that Newt was Ronald Reagan's champion on Capitol Hill. My father knew and appreciated that fact. Look, I know that Newt has rubbed a lot of his fellow Republicans the wrong way, but that is the inevitable result when a leader does his job. He simply can't satisfy everybody, and those who attempt to do so comprise the GOP's wobbly liberal wing. Leading the charge against Newt are supporters of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. They do the governor no favors by linking him to the GOP's small but vociferous liberal wing, which doesn't like warriors. Newt is a warrior who cherishes any opportunity to go into battle, flags flying.

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Savaging Newt Michael Reagan

I am somewhat mystified and dismayed by the spectacle of a lot of so-called conservatives, who weren't around in the 1980s, dropping Ronald Reagan's name to promote themselves while they go about slandering Newt Gingrich who, like my dad, was there in the '80s and '90s, and also helped him elect more Republicans than anyone else in recent memory. It's long been an unfortunate characteristic of too many Republicans to engage in internecine warfare standing in a circle as they fire volleys at each other. The current fashion of the day is to take aim and fire at one of the GOP's most-storied and valuable members, doing Obama's work toward destroying Newt Gingrich in advance of the 2012 presidential election. They seem to forget or simply ignore my dad's 11th Commandment, that Republicans must refrain from publicly speaking ill of one another. After all, the other party sufficiently fulfills that function without any help from Republicans. As leader of GOP forces in the House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich was the party's leading warrior a politician who never feared

This being an election year, we can expect various factions of the GOP to seek to modify the tenets of traditional Republicanism. They prefer to shrink away from any hard fighting. Newt is the exact opposite; he relishes the joys of hard combat on behalf of conservative American principles. That upsets some of his fellow Republicans, who are more like the mother who asks what her children are doing upstairs, and when told they are engaging in some horrible behavior, says, "That's nice, don't fight." Newt fights. Real Republicans need fighters, not mealy-mouthed compromisers who shrink away from any form of combat. He may stray away from what many of his GOP colleagues consider proper Republican behavior. But Newt is ready and able to take the fight to Obama, and he will win that fight, unless the compromisers have their way. Michael Reagan is the elder son of President Ronald Reagan, a political consultant, and the author of "The New Reagan Revolution." He is the founder and chairman of The Reagan Group and president of The Reagan Legacy Foundation. Email comments to Reagan@caglecartoons.com. Mike's column is distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons, Inc., newspaper syndicate.

Parks and Recreation Mr. Tim Coley has worked tirelessly with his team to accomplish some of the goals that were set forth. Our hats are off to Tim and his team for all they have done to keep the monument looking well, but there are things that are yet to be accomplished that he has no control over. Those who set the goals are the ones who must finish the project. Many citizens do not realize that the monument is actually not finished. The flag stanchions that hold the flags at the monument need to be repaired and that was to be accomplished through the county. Also, a commissioner said that the wrought iron fencing would be installed not in 2010, but likely in 2011. The fencing was coming from the fencing taken down from Eagles Landing Parkway. It was to be cleaned and painted. These projects should have already been accomplished by this time. The Veterans Wall of Honor Preservation Committee has taken note of the fact that these projects have not been accomplished. They have watched as Butts County and the City of Jackson have created a beautiful monument to our Veterans. The project was designed and proposed in January 2011 and finished by Veterans Day of 2011. They had their act together. And Henry County is still grabbling to finish our Wall of Honor. The Veterans Wall of Honor at Heritage Park is now seven years in the making and it is about time to have it finished and a budget set aside to provide for its upkeep. I personally sent an email to the County Manager on February 1, 2011 asking when this project would be completed. As of yet there has been no response. Here is something all Veterans in Henry County need to be advised of as they go to the polls to vote this year. Henry County found the money to buy an airport, have its name changed, and hire a company to see to its day to day operations. They could find money for this, but not for the monument to those who have fought and died for our nation. The Veterans Wall of Honor Preservation Committee has been treated like the red headed step child of Henry County ever since its inception. The only member of the county workforce who have really helped us is those with the Parks and Recreation Dept. under Tim Coley and Jim Joyce who can only do what they can with the money they have at their disposal. Remember my fellow veterans; We stood by those here at home so that they may be free, it is only right that they stand by us for what they love: money.

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The Honorable Judge Kelley Powell of the Henry County Probate Court for an update on the many jobs of the Probate Court and any changes in the law we may need to be aware of. Judge Powell will also discuss Living Wills including Healthcare issues that will be of interest to all. Questions and Answers to follow. WHEN: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2012 WHERE: HENRY COUNTY MOOSE LODGE Hwy 155, McDonough, GA TIME: 6:00 PM in the Ballroom Stay for dinner in the dining room before or after the meeting if you like. Southern Crescent Senior Republican Network Vikki McReynolds, Chair vikkimcreynolds@yahoo.com 770-507-3232 Eleanor Toppins, 1st V Chair ejanddick@hotmail.com

Update on the Veterans Wall of Honor

By TheDoctor I am writing to give an update on the Veterans Wall of Honor. The needed repairs have come about 80% to fruition since we began speaking with the county just over two years ago. There are some elements which remain unchecked in the box of things to accomplish. The Director of

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Non-Responsive County Officials

Alfred Britt It has been about two weeks when the Cemetery Research Group (CRG) sent an E-Mail to three Henry County Georgia Officials in regards to the South Family Cemetery. The cemetery is on Fairview Road just East of Dior Dr. We all know that Fairview Rd is being made wider, we at the CRG wanted to know how the County plans on dealing with the cemetery because it is very close to the roadway. We also wanted to bring it to the Counties attention that the cemetery is the South Family cemetery. On the County maps for taxes it states unknown cemetery. Google maps have it marked as South Cemetery we just wanted to help the County out. The cemetery is very historical the South family helped to start Fairview and there is a veteran buried in the cemetery as well so it needs to be protected and not dug up or bulldozed like has happen before in the County. It has been two weeks and not one of the three County Officials has bothered to return my EMail. This happens a lot to us at the CRG and it gets old. It makes us think they dont care at all about our cemeteries. It has been an up hill struggle to work with the County about saving the cemeteries. We have even had a Commissioner say they would not help me get anything done about the cemeteries because in an article I wrote the Commissioner thought I was writing about them and in face I was writing about another Commissioner that is their conscious talking to them. When a Commissioner so blatantly hold grudges like this at the expense of those that cant speak for themselves than the power has went to their heads and they are of no use to the citizens anymore and need to be replaced. Rest assured that we at the CRG will continue the battle to protect and preserve the history and the resting places of those that made Henry County so great and cant speak for themselves, we will be their voice.

Many Faiths Unite in Opposition to Obama Attack on Religious Liberty

DAVID S. ADDINGTON The Obama Administrations mandate under the Obamacare statute that many religious employers provide health care coverage for contraception, abortifacients, and human sterilization tramples upon their constitutionally guaranteed free exercise of religion. Secretary Kathleen Sebelius of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced the Administration policy. Many faiths have united in opposition to the Obama Administration attack on religious liberty. On January 20, 2012, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said that To force American citizens to choose between violating their consciences and forgoing their healthcare is literally unconscionable. Also on that day, the National Association of Evangelicals commented that The HHS rules trample on our most cherished freedoms and set a dangerous precedent. On January 26, the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America stated, In declining to expand the religious exemption within the healthcare reform law, the Obama Administration has disappointingly failed to respect the needs of religious organizations such as hospitals, social welfare organizations and more. On the same day, Agudath Israel of America stated: The Obama Administration had an opportunity to declare that there is a fundamental American value at stake here religious freedom and provide strong and unequivocal protections to religious employers. Instead, it took a step backwards by imposing religiouslyobjectionable mandates on countless religious entities, and by devising a cramped limitation on what religious groups are and what their public mission in society should be. On February 3, the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod said, This action by HHS will have the effect of forcing many religious organizations to choose between following the letter of the law and operating within the framework of their religious tenets. The Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of North and Central America

noted that the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the free exercise of religion and that This freedom is transgressed when a religious institution is required to pay for contraceptive services including abortioninducing drugs and sterilization services that directly violate their religious convictions. The Obamacare statute has concentrated in the hands of the federal government broad power over the one-sixth of the American economy that is health care. Obamacare purports to invest in the federal government the power to force religious institutions, such as religious hospitals, charities, and schools, to provide health care insurance for contraception, abortion-inducing drugs, and human sterilization, contrary to the faiths of those religious institutions. As Ronald Reagan said, Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. The concentration of nearly all power over health care in the hands of the federal government has proved to be a drastic and dangerous experiment. Congress should repeal the Obamacare statute, allow the country to have market-based, patient-centered health care, and restore our religious liberty.

That is why the liberal media want Romney and will do anything within their power to influence voters towards the Romney is inevitable meme. Taylor Marsh, a liberal, someone whom I rarely agree on policy issues, but have stated many times she shoots from the hip, she is honest in her opinions whether I agree with her stances or not, and who pulls no punches when it comes to Obamas failures, understands and acknowledges what other liberals refuse to the liberal media in this country want Obama to be reelected and have been AT HIS FEET, since he came to Washington. Gingrich is now LEADING IN THE SOUTH CAROLINA POLLS and is SURGING TO THE FRONT OF THE PACK as the odds on favorite to win the largest primary to be held to date, South Carolina, on Saturday, January 21, 2012. (Join us tomorrow for the LIVE BLOGGING/LIVE DISCUSSION as we watch and talk about entrance and exit polls and report on primary results) Yesterday news reports showed that RICK SANTORUM BEAT MITT ROMNEY IN THE IOWA CAUCUSES. Romney took New Hampshire. If Newt Gingrich takes South Carolina on Saturday, will the media stop acting like Romney is the presumptive nominee? Will they start calling someone else inevitable? Doubtful. Or will they continue to push and attempt to influence the public into the candidate of their choice to go against the liberal medias darling, Barack Obama? It is this political bias in the media that makes Newt Gingrichs statement I AM TIRED OF THE ELITE MEDIA PROTECTING BARACK OBAMA BY ATTACKING REPUBLICANS, highly effective and resonates with GOP supporters. (Video of two more standing ovations for Gingrich when he ripped the press, at the above link) Marsh and Gingrich are not the only ones that see the media bias for what it is, according to Pew Research in Sept. 2011, 60 percent of Americans also perceive bias in the media, with 47 PERCENT SAYING THE MEDIA IS TOO LIBERAL, and 13 percent saying that that it was too conservative. Only the BLIND OR INTELLECTUALLY DISHONEST will claim there is no liberal media bias and only conservatives feel there is.

Obama & Liberal Media Want Mitt Romney? They Believe Obama Can Beat Him
By Susan Duclos for Tea Party Conservatives Online With just two caucus/primaries completed, the media has pushed for the Romney is inevitable meme, and there is a reason for that. The liberal faction of the media want Mitt Romney to be the GOP nominee because they believe that Obama can dominate Romney in the presidential debates and ultimately beat him in November 2012. I was a Rick Perry supporter, for reasons I have explained on this blog, multiple times. PERRY DROPPED OUT and threw his support behind Newt Gingrich yesterday. Even while supporting Perry I have noted many times that Newt Gingrich is a consistently good debater and there is no doubt in my mind that one-on-one against Barack Obama in debates, Gingrich will make mincemeat out of Obama.

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ROMNEY'S CHEAP AND EMPTY WIN

By GEORGE NEUMAYR The GOP is signing its own political death warrant by backing him. Mitt Romney's plastic and philosophically vapid
campaign secured an easy victory in Florida on Tuesday night. Sunshine state GOP voters swallowed his "electability" argument whole, according to the exit polls. It appears that country club Republicans have succeeded again in duping the GOP electorate into crowning a "centrist" Republican. Never mind that "centrist" Republicans rarely win the center. They usually lose the center while sapping the spirit of the party's conservative base. Out of Bob Dole's and John McCain's tattered Big Tent steps another "reformed" RINO, Mitt Romney, who will receive, should he win the nomination, a similar thumping from the Democrats. But let's say that he is "electable," for the sake of argument. Who cares? The purpose of politics in a republic is not simply to win but to win on sound principles. A party that pursues victory by scrapping or sidelining its platform will have no truth left with which to govern once it does. If "electability" is the goal, why don't the politically correct plutocrats of the GOP just call for a one-party state? That way they could win every time. The "electability" argument is bankrupt on both philosophical and practical grounds. It destroys the party's soul and guarantees defeat. Even though Romney paid for this Florida win on his debit card -- outspending Newt by millions -he still couldn't nail down the rank-and-file vote. Seven out of ten self-described conservatives didn't vote for him. This foreshadows the boredom and disgust that will keep conservatives home in the fall. Visions of a former Paul Tsongas voter and Planned Parenthood supporter won't exactly blast them out of bed in the morning. The confederacy of weasels that is the GOP establishment couldn't even find a moderate with an engaging personality to run. They settled on a robotic bore.

His high-priced strategists -- the ones who bragged to the New York Times about engineering his post-South Carolina comeback -wind him up and then find photographers to capture him "doing his own laundry," buying a Big Mac, or woodenly tossing bags of potato chips to media jackals on his campaign plane. This pitifully plastic campaign is what passes for winning politics in the GOP. Newt, Romney supporters crow, is a loser and "embarrassment." But what about their own candidate? Romney's teleprompter-dependent drivel is far more risible than Newt's grandiose opining. Romney comes off as the blinkered technocrat whose idea of wit is to compare his opponent to "Lucille Ball at the chocolate factory." All one can say for Romney is that he looks presidential. If Newt looked like Romney and Mitt looked like an overfed blowhard, Gingrich would be winning. That Romney is a corny businessman of narrow learning and culture wouldn't be so deadly if he harbored conservative convictions. But he doesn't. He has been taught how to play a semiconservative Republican on TV, but his deepest instincts remain liberal. Hence, his dogged pride in Romneycare, legislation that Barack Obama himself would have fathered had he governed the Bay State. What's notable about the rise of Romney is not the extent to which he has pandered to conservatives -- the usual media narrative -- but the ease with which he has left his liberalism open for all to see and still won. In the debates, he has defended statist mandates, extolled gay rights (short of marriage), and waxed nostalgic about FDR's New Deal. Remember his rebuke of Rick Perry for even contemplating a system other than Social Security? Good Republicans, Mitt let Perry know, don't entertain such impure thoughts. Almost two years after energy from the Tea Party swept Republicans back into congressional power, a politician who embodies the antithesis of that spirit stands on the verge of victory. This is regress, not progress, and the GOP will pay a severe price for the Faustian bargain of "electability" that it entails. A party that chooses power over principle will lose both.

TRIBUNE: Romneys finance team also donors to Obama and Emanuel

Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney has built a whos who roster of Chicago business leaders to help him raise millions in President Barack Obamas backyard. Romneys Illinois finance committee, which has 22 members, is led by Goldman Sachs managing director Muneer Satter. Among the other members: Reeve Waud, founder of private equity firm Waud Capital Partners; Susan Crown, a philanthropist and member of the billionaire Crown family; Abbott Laboratories Chief Executive Miles White; and Robert Asher, a former president of the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee. In an only-in-Chicago twist, about half of Romneys Illinois finance committee members have crossed the aisle and donated either to Obamas 2008 campaign or the mayoral campaign of Democrat Rahm Emanuel. In addition to being a former chief of staff to Obama, Emanuel is credited with seizing control of Congress from Republicans in the 2006 midterm elections. Romneys finance committee members and their spouses have donated more than $560,000 to Emanuel and Obamas most recent campaigns and inaugurations. Read More: HTTP://WWW.CHICAGOTRIBUNE .COM/BUSINESS/CT-BIZ0122-CONFIDENTIAL-CAMPAIGN20120122,0,4016111.COLUMN

time for a new face. Bo has no connections to a large utility outside and inside the county. He is a hard working man and knows what the economy is really like for the average person in Henry County.

Bo wants to see that the needs of the people are met and that the district is not only kept apprised of the current happenings, but that the district gets the money it needs to make the needed changes that are long over due. Bo is a conservative who does not want to see the county balloon into the bureaucratic mess it found itself and had to lay people off and hurt families so an airport could be bought. So when the time comes vote for Bo Moss for the first district of Henry County. He will be the voice of the citizen for change.
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Vote for Gary Barham For the 3rd District Commission Seat Henry County
Gary Barham of McDonough is running for the 3rd District Commission seat. Gary is retired from the City of McDonough with 31 years of service and was Director of Public Works much of the time. Gary and his wife attend Sharon Baptist Church in Ola.

Meet and Greet for Bo Moss for District One Commissioner

Meet and Greet Saturday, February 25, 2012 Time: 8:00am to 11:00am Free breakfast will be served at the Moose Lodge located, at 91 Hunters Chase, McDonough, GA 30253. Its time for a change in the first district of Henry County. And that change can come from William Bo Moss. He is running to bring changes that are sorely needed for the district. Bo knows that the incumbent has had his time in office and it is

Gary is a conservative Republican who wants to work for the people and their welfare. He helps with meals on wheels and is a member of the 3DCC which is a group committed to the betterment of the 3rd District of Henry County. Gary believes in supporting our Veterans and has a son currently serving in Afghanistan with the

82nd Airborne Division. He knows the sacrifices our Veterans have given for our nation. Gary wants to represent the people with good common sense ideas that is lacking with many decisions currently being made by the BoC. His family is a founding family of Henry County and he appreciates the historical past our county possesses. So, dont forget to Vote for Gary Barham, a man of the people who will answer your calls and be there for more than just a paycheck.

Speaking to Ron Mitchell, a producer at Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor," Eastwood asserted, "I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama. It was meant to be a message ... just about job growth and the spirit of America. I think all politicians will agree with it." Eastwood, who served as mayor of Carmel-bythe-Sea, California, in the 1980s, added that he is "not supporting any politician at this time" but noted that, if Obama or any other politician "want to run with the spirit of that ad, go for it." In the ad -- dubbed "Halftime in America" -Eastwood extols the resiliency of the American spirit -- as exemplified by the auto industry's efforts to bounce back from its financial woes. "This country can't be knocked out with one punch, we get right back up again," Eastwood growls in the ad.

Some lawmakers feel Deal's gas tax plan could ease opposition to TSPLOST
Read more: THE MARIETTA DAILY JOURNAL Cobb lawmakers are praising Gov. Nathan Deals proposal to use gas tax money to help fund a $900 million toll road project along Interstates 75 and 575 in Cobb and Cherokee counties, with some saying it could save the Transportation Improvement Act referendum when it goes before voters in July. TELL ME exactly how toll lanes will make voters more accepting of yet ANOTHER SALES TAX???? The rocket scientists promoting T-SPLOST are making the opposition's case every day!

Is the Republican Party Facing an Enthusiasm Gap?

By Huma Khan | ABC OTUS News As the caucuses and primaries pick up pace, with Colorado and Minnesota taking center stage today, many are wondering whether the initial enthusiasm surrounding the Republican race is waning, given the remarkably low turnout in the Nevada caucuses, which came and went with little fanfare. In Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, turnout surged, compared to four years ago and each state went to a different candidate. But that trend appears to be on the decline. In both Florida and Nevada, turnout dropped sharply from 2008. Florida saw nearly 280,000 fewer voters in its primary last week, while more than 11,000 fewer voters turned out to vote in Nevada on Saturday compared to four years ago. Mitt

Clint Eastwood speaks out on Super Bowl ad

LOS ANGELES, Feb 6 (TheWrap.com) - Clint Eastwood is setting the record straight about his improbably controversial Chrysler ad that aired on Sunday's Super Bowl. The "GRAN TORINO" director went on the defensive Monday, dismissing suggestions that the ad is a partisan love letter to President Obama.

Romney won both states by a landslide. Some observers say the declining interest is a reflection of the lack of enthusiasm for the former Massachusetts governor. Some observers, however, point to a trend of higher turnout in counties where former House speaker Newt Gingrich outperformed Romney. "He's much more of an attack dog when it comes to not only his primary opponents but also his potential general election opponent, Obama," said Michael McDonald, a professor at George Mason University who runs the United States Elections Project, which monitors election and turnout data. "The Republican voters really crave someone who's going to display that sort of attack mentality when it comes to the general election. That's something you can get enthused upon. Romney's campaign is not a campaign that seems to be able to spark that kind of enthusiasm." Turnout is also directly related to how closely voters are engaged in the political process, and that was more the case in early nominating states than in Florida and Nevada.

It's Time To Get Rid Of Pork Barrel Spending FOR REAL! The Washington Post reveals more details about these shameless schemes... Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D - Calif). Over the past decade, the House minority leader helped secure $50 million in earmarks toward a light-rail project that provides direct access to San Francisco's Union Square and Chinatown for neighborhoods south of Market Street. Pelosi's husband owns a four-story commercial building blocks from Union Square. Sen. Harry Reid (D- Nev). In 2004 and 2005, the Senate majority leader secured $21.5 million to build a bridge over the Colorado River, linking the gambling resort town of Laughlin, Nev., with Bullhead City, Ariz. Reid owns 160 acres of undeveloped land in Bullhead City. Rep. Steve Israel (D - N.Y). The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chair - In 2008, Israel earmarked $490,000 to study a bypass road to ease congestion along a busy commercial corridor that borders the congressman's neighborhood in Dix Hills. Tell Congress: Cut The Fat! NO MORE EXCUSES: It's Time To Get Rid Of Pork Barrel Spending FOR REAL! What part of "stop the spending" does Congress not understand? We are facing trillion dollar plus deficits and a mindnumbing $15 trillion dollar debt... Washington is borrowing over $3.98 billion dollars per day - more than $2 million per minute... ....And now we learn that much of the pork is helping to line the pockets of the very politicians who pass it. It's outrageous! And that is precisely why patriotic Americans like you can't give up the fight. Now is the time to turn up the heat.

Secret Slush Fund Used To Revamp Congressmen's Backyards!

ALERT: Members Of Congress Rob Taxpayer Coffers To Increase Their Property Values! Tell Congress: Cut The Fat! NO MORE EXCUSES: It's Time To Get Rid Of Pork Barrel Spending FOR REAL! While regular Americans can't sell their homes for pennies on the dollar, members of Congress are using our hard-earned tax dollars to increase the values of their land, vacation homes, personal residences and businesses!

Yours In Freedom, Jeff Mazzella President Center for Individual Freedom

A Washington Post investigation reveals that 33 members of Congress have directed more than over $401 million in earmarks and other spending provisions to dozens of public projects that are next to or within about two miles of the lawmakers' own property. Over a year after Washington supposedly got rid of earmarks, these slick elected officials have already found a way around the ban. They're inserting special funds in spending bills that give funds to public works projects in their states. These Capitol Hill crooks have created an enormous slush fund for their own personal profit. Tell Congress: Cut The Fat! NO MORE EXCUSES:

Ray McBerry To Begin New Cable TV Station on Southside

Ray McBerry Enterprises, Inc., will

launch KBN Television in the Atlanta market, March 5, at 9 p.m., on Charter Cable Channel 22. The channels acronym stands for the Kairos Broadcasting Network. Kairos is a Greek word which means the precisely best moment in time to do something, said Ray McBerry, the businessman, who plans to start the new channel. In Christian terms, it [kairos] also represents the fact that Christ came into the world at precisely the right time to fulfill his promise to redeem mankind. The anchor program for KBN Television will be the Georgia First show, hosted by McBerry. The program will consist of political issues and current events, from what McBerry called a traditional, constitutional viewpoint, which focuses on state sovereignty and local self-government. Mr. McBerry will bring many years of experience to the new station. He has worked for other stations on Charter for the past 10 years. This should be a good change for many here in the Southern Crescent.

Furlough Day Scheduled for February 20

Henry County Government offices and the Henry County Recycling Center will be closed on Monday, February 20, 2012 for a planned furlough day. It is one of four furlough days for County employees, scheduled for the 2011/2012 fiscal year. County government offices will reopen on Tuesday, February 21.
The Citizen response: If Henry County is so cash poor, and the regular guys and gals working here (no directors, managers or supervisors were laid-off) someone please tell me HOW on earth could we taxpayers afford to buy an airport? Thank heaven it is an election year!

File this under What is this mayor smoking?

Roswell Mayor Jere Wood calls for one regional transit agency for metro Atlanta
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By Maria Saporta for the Atlanta Business Chronicle

Roswell Mayor Jere Wood would like to see metro Atlanta create a unified transit system rather than creating another planning agency that would keep the current multitude of agencies delivering transit services to the region. The Citizen response: All power and Billions in tax dollars to the Unseen and Unelected. Keep the masses at arm's length and give them no voice. With elected officials driving a mega-region type of government, pushing citizens to the side and praying for power and influence at our expense, folks, these people are not our friends!