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What is States’ Rights?

The John B. Gordon Story

Praise For Lee And Jackson By Chuck Baldwin January 6, 2010

Southern National Covenant: Has its time come?

Remembering Robert E. Lee

The League of the South 2009 National Conference

Death of General Robert E. Lee

Remembering the Gettysburg Reunion of 1913

The Second Southern National Congress

Should We be Surprised by Sotomayor's Radical Views?

General Forrest and the Confederate flag

Vote Coming to Confirm Anti-gun Radical

SNC - Statement on Second Amendment

2009 Georgia LS Summer Institute

Let’s Not Forget Memorial Day

What has happened to our country?

Remembering the Great Locomotive Chase

Confederate Memorial Service Saturday 4 April 2009.

Confederate Heritage Month - Minutes

April is also Confederate History Month

Legislative Alert - HB218 - secret meetings bill

HB218 has been filed and has actually passed out of committee with a positive recommendation:

This bill has the effect of nullifying the concept of open government. Your government can decide to place a facility in your back yard and you get to find out after the fact. Between this and SB 5 (giving developers the ability to request that your property be condemned) we see a not so subtle shift of power to developers, eliminating the rights of the citizens who pay the bill for our state government.

Of yes, some will scream that this bill is innocent. Well read the following provision:

C) Records not subject to disclosure pursuant to subparagraph (A) of this paragraph shall become subject to public disclosure once the agency, person, business, or entity publicly announces that the entity or business that is the subject of negotiations will be retained, expanded, or located in the jurisdiction or that negotiations to do so have been terminated or abandoned.

The sponsors are listed above and the members of the committee that reported this bill with a recommendation to pass follow:

Legislation Assigned
Room 228, State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia 30334
404.656.656.5122
Staff: Eva Farrill
 
Roberta Abdul-Salaam Allen Freeman Jay Neal
Tom Bordeaux Michele Henson Nan Grogan Orrock
Tyrone Brooks Cecily Hill Butch Parrish
Bob Bryant Billy Horne Stacey Reece
Gail Buckner Henry Howard Jay Roberts
Mark Butler Sistie Hudson Freddie Powell Sims
Buddy Carter Charles Jenkins Vance Smith
Tom Dickson Paul Jennings LaNett Stanley-Turner
Matt Dollar Gene Maddox Joe Wilkinson
Winfred Dukes Randal Mangham Al Williams
Terry England Fran Millar

Now would be a good time to contact your State Representative and tell them to vote against this bill. Do they represent you or developers? When this bill comes up for a vote in the full House you will find out.

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