GMOs, jobs, and energy v. Austin Scott GA-08

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Wednesday April 10, 2013 · 9:09 AM PDT

2013/04/10 · 09:09

Got a call from "Private Number" that was Austin Scott's telephone town hall today.
A woman "Victoria" from Hahira called to as about 2nd amendment and GMOs. Scott went on at length about 2nd A. For GMOs he alleged "there's a movement out there" to ban all genetically modified crops. The caller clarified she was concerned that GM corn seed couldn't be reused. Scott stumbled and stuttered and clearly didn't have a canned answer. Eventually he said "We're going on to the next question".
Several times he said he was for jobs and against fraud, abuse, and wasteful subsidies. I wonder which bill he's cosponsored to end the $70+ billion a year in fossil fuel subisidies? http://1bog.org/... He went on again and again about cutting the military claiming it puts national security at risk. How about promoting solar and wind for national security through energy independence, like DoD wants?
These are points an opponent of Scott next year could use to win.
-jsq

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Which of these does Austin Scott know the least about?

4 votes Vote Now!

Which of these does Austin Scott know the least about?

GMOs

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solar energy

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wind energy

0 votes

anything not on the script Jack Kingston gave him

4 votes

Turning Georgia Blue: Lowndes County, the bellweather county

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Friday September 14, 2012 · 12:21 PM PDT

2012/09/14 · 12:21

Want to win another state for Obama? How about Georgia?

Lowndes County, in far south Georgia, half way between Atlanta and Orlando, the bellweather county for Georgia in 2012, closed the gap 10% from Kerry vs. Bush in 2004 to Obama vs. McCain in 2008:

2004: Bush 60%; Kerry 39.6%; -20.4%	2008: McCain 54.7%; Obama 45.2%; -9.5%
Source: city-data.com for Lowndes County, Georgia (GA)

If we can do that again this year, we win!

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How many more states does Obama need if he wins Georgia?

48 votes Vote Now!

How many more states does Obama need if he wins Georgia?

Not many

5 votes

None, because he'll win all the leaning states, too

38 votes

Watch Lowndes County and see what happens

3 votes

Nah, there's nothing you can do

2 votes

VDT Poll: Do you think you are better off today than you were 4 years ago?

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Wednesday September 12, 2012 · 2:13 PM PDT

2012/09/12 · 14:13

There's a poll on the home page of the Valdosta Daily Times (scroll way down or search in the page for Poll).
It asks:

Do you think you are better off today than you were 4 years ago?

I ask: do those results seem right to you?
If you're in south Georgia, or if you have an opinion on the VDT's question, maybe you'd like to stop in at the VDT's home page.

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Do those results seem right to you?

15 votes Vote Now!

Do those results seem right to you?

Heck no, he even appointed Hillary!

2 votes

Nope, R is for Reverse, D is for Forward, and we're going forward!

5 votes

If the VDT didn't do it, it couldn't be good.

0 votes

How would the VDT know?

1 vote

What's Valdosta?

3 votes

Let's turn Georgia blue!

4 votes

Georgia Power deploys 1 MW solar; could have done 330 MW by now

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Tuesday July 10, 2012 · 2:59 PM PDT

2012/07/10 · 14:59

Let's compare Georgia Power's 1 megawatt Upson solar plant with what Georgia Power and Southern Company could be doing if they weren't wasting so much money on nukes at Plant Vogtle.

S. Heather Duncan reported for the Macon Telegraph, First big Ga. Power solar project comes online in Upson. Yay! Georgia Power and its parent the Southern Company (SO) will have a hard time now saying solar power doesn't work in Georgia. But let's put that in perspective by megawatts.

That's right: we could have had 3,000 times as much solar production by now. All SO would have to do would be to look at what Cobb EMC and Austin Energy have done, or even what SO itself is doing in Nevada. Or at what Germany, world leader in solar power, a thousand miles north of us, is doing.

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What should we do?

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What should we do?

Let's stop Plant Vogtle so we can get solar and wind deployed

12 votes

Let's elect some legislators who will stop this mess!

7 votes

Waste of water is the key issue.

2 votes

Stealth tax in the Georgia Power rate hike is the key issue.

1 vote

There's nothing we can do.

1 vote

We should be happy for a few pennies while they throw the real dollars down that pit by the Savannah River

1 vote

Why the Tea Party desperately compares itself to Occupy Wall Street

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Monday October 24, 2011 · 11:12 AM PDT

2011/10/24 · 11:12

The nation's most reviled movement wants to glom onto the nation's most admired.
OWS is twice as popular as the Tea Party:

Time magazine's new national poll is out, and there's no "slightly" here. The Occupy movement has a 54 percent favorable rating; the Tea Party's rating is 27 percent.

Of course that's not hard, considering the Tea Party is less popular than muslims or atheists. In a study back in August, before OWS, the Tea Party was the least popular of the 21 groups considered.
And because OWS has already won the main battle, as Paul Krugman observed:
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Have you occupied?

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Have you occupied?

Yes, Times Square the other day!

0 votes

Zuccotti Park

1 vote

Tahrir Square

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Tel Aviv

0 votes

In my home town

10 votes

Take it to Wall Street 1979

2 votes

I occupy my easy chair

7 votes

Occupy schmockupy

0 votes

Why does Jack Kingston support corporations over citizens?

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Wednesday August 17, 2011 · 5:00 AM PDT

2011/08/17 · 05:00

Jack "flag pin" Kingston GA-01 supports locking people up in private prisons and then renting them out as probationers to farmers. But farmers were not buying Jack's probationer snake oil.
Kingston showed up in Tifton, Georgia, yesterday afternoon at a meeting that was not advertised on his web page or his facebook page. We found it through a facebook event somebody posted.
That morning he was in Valdosta for a similarly unadvertised meeting at 9AM. Kingston tried to claim (twice) that the local Chamber of Commerce in Lowndes County hosted the Valdosta meeting and sent notices beforehand. His office did tip off the Valdosta Daily Times and WALB TV, which published this article saying nothing about the Chamber.
Kingston's audience participant said she was a Chamber member and got no notices.
Then he fell back on this:

I've had lots of town meetings in Lowndes County. You're the chairwoman of the Democrat[sic] Party. You've been to many of those, and you make those meetings very spirited. So you will have your opportunities to do that any time you want, so we're glad you're here. Even out of my district, I appreciate the fact that you've followed me. And I know you've been protesting outside of my office. So I'm glad you're interested in the governmental process.

Thanks for the ads, Jack!
And yes, we'll be outside your office today at noon, protesting again.
Y'all come!
Here's

an example of spirited Democratic participation at one of Jack's town halls in Lowndes County.
He gave that spirited redneck woman a perfect leadin to her question, which was about ALEC, the American Legislation Exchange Committee, which is a corporate legislation-writing and pressure group. One of its corporate members is Corrections Corporation of America (CCA).

This law we have now in Georgia will put them in jail before we send them back, and that's a taxpayer expense. And when we put them in private prisons, private prisons are not as good.

They wanted her to get to her question, and here it is:

Why do you choose to represent corporations like CCA over citizens?
Audience member: Corporations are citizens!
Others: Yeah! Yeah!

I couldn't tell whether Kingston was one of the "yeahs" but he certainly didn't correct them.
And he didn't answer her question. Probably because he does represent corporations over private citizens.
Here's the video:

Probationers and farmers after the jump.
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Is Jack Kingston a corporation?

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Is Jack Kingston a corporation?

Yes, but not nearly as important as ALEC.

1 vote

Only if CCA says so.

0 votes

That would explain a lot!

2 votes

No need: he has plenty of corporate sponsors.

1 vote

Maybe probationers should incorporate!

1 vote

Wouldn't that be like a union?

0 votes

Is Kingston the union of a corporation and a suit?

0 votes

Protesters of the world incorporate!

3 votes

Groundswell of weekly protesters at Jack Kingston's Valdosta office

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Wednesday August 03, 2011 · 6:47 AM PDT

2011/08/03 · 06:47

Last week five protesters,

this week nine. That's 80% growth in one week! More than Jack "flag pin" Kingston has ever done for GA-01.
Protesters want to know what Jack's going to do about health care, jobs, and social security:

Music signs, and here comes another sign:

Donna Delaney talks about how it was in DC in the '60s, and reminds us Ignorance is way more expensive than education:

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Why won't you let bluebirds fly, Jack?

11 votes Vote Now!

Why won't you let bluebirds fly, Jack?

They might need health care?

0 votes

They'd want to educate their chicks?

1 vote

They might unionize?

5 votes

Plain old meanness?

5 votes

Sack Jack: Protest at Jack Kingston's Office last week and tomorrow

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Monday August 01, 2011 · 1:53 PM PDT

2011/08/01 · 13:53

Join us tomorrow, Tuesday 2 August 2011!
Here's video of last week's protest in front of Jack "Flag Pin" Kingston's office in Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia.
Only five people, you say? Thing is: nobody can remember anybody ever protesting at Kingston's office. We start where we stand.

Jack Kingston voted for all seven debt limit increases under W.
He voted for both of Bush's wars and he voted for Bush's tax cuts for the rich, causing the current debt "crisis". Now he opposes raising the debt limit and wants cuts to social programs! We protest that!
His staffer came out to say he knew we were there. Talking to LCDP chair Gretchen Quarterman, she added, "and he knows who you are."

Join us tomorrow!

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Do you protest Jack?

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Do you protest Jack?

Don't Kill the American Dream!

3 votes

Save Medicare!

0 votes

Save Social Security!

1 vote

When will you term limit yourself, Jack?

0 votes

Where's your flag pin, Jack?

2 votes

Nah, there's nothing you can do.

1 vote

I'm too scaired!

0 votes

I got my pie.

1 vote

"there was no way that I could sit down: I had to stand up." WI Sen. Lena C. Taylor

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Monday July 04, 2011 · 10:58 AM PDT

2011/07/04 · 10:58

One of the Wisconsin 14 fled all the way to Atlanta to speak at the Democratic Party of Georgia's Jefferson-Jackson dinner. Lena C. Taylor said:

This is our wakeup call!

"Georgia, you know that struggle. I keep mentioning it, but how can you not. Because he was a man and he is a man who has spent his life working for civil rights. Congressman Lewis has fought those kinds of fights.
I say that because I need us to know: this is our wakeup call!
We're fighting the same fight that was fought forty years ago.
Martin Luther King died fighting for workers rights."
"So when the moment came that I had to choose whether or not I would stand up for workers as my governor and my colleagues on the Republican side of the aisle, decided to strip, to rape workers of their rights, there was no way that I could sit down: I had to stand up."

Video by Gretchen Quarterman for the Lowndes County Democratic Party (LCDP).
-jsq

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When the moment comes, what will you do?

84 votes Vote Now!

When the moment comes, what will you do?

Get up, stand up!

62 votes

Stand up for your rights!

17 votes

If I don't have a prior commitment.

1 vote

Unless big oil makes me a better offer.

0 votes

I wouldn't want to cause any trouble.

1 vote

There's nothing you can do.

3 votes

MLK died for nothing.

0 votes

"Good trouble, necessary trouble" —John Lewis @ DPG's JJ

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Wednesday June 29, 2011 · 9:16 AM PDT

2011/06/29 · 09:16

Previously I attributed this most excellent graphic to Jeana Brown:

She says she didn't make it; maybe J.j. Bellemare did.

Here's the video and transcription: "it is time for the Democratic Party in Georgia to get in trouble."
The best attribution goes to John Lewis for giving such a great speech!
-jsq

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Are you ready to get into some trouble?

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Are you ready to get into some trouble?

Yes, good trouble! necessary trouble!

7 votes

You trouble me.

1 vote

I wouldn't want to go to any trouble.

0 votes

Being cautious worked so well last year.

1 vote

Kingston's "He voted to KILL medicare" Town Hall

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Monday June 27, 2011 · 8:41 PM PDT

2011/06/27 · 20:41

Jeana Brown, GA-01 Chair for the Democratic Party of Georgia, and Team Rural invite you to come talk to Jack Kingston, GA-01.

Time	Wednesday, June 29 · 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Location	Altamaha Technical College Jesup Ga 1777 West Cherry St

This is Kingston's only town hall this month that we know of. You might want to ask him questions like:

Why did you vote to kill Medicare?
Why do you want to dismantle Social Security, abandoning our contract with the senior citizens who have paid into it their entire working lives?
You ran 18 years ago on a platform of term limits. When do you plan to retire?

Ask Jeana for more questions, or bring your own, along with homemade signs.
-jsq
Oh yeah: where's your flag pin, Jack?

"it is time for the Democratic Party in Georgia to get in trouble" --John Lewis @ DPG's JJ

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Monday June 27, 2011 · 8:15 AM PDT

2011/06/27 · 08:15

Congratulations to the Democratic Party of Georgia for booking
Rep. John Lewis GA-05 to speak at the annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner.

Maybe just maybe our foremothers and our forefathers came to this land in different ships.
But we're all in the same boat now.
There are people who want to take Medicare and privatize it,
end Social Security, and we must say no to that!
We have an obligation, we have a contract, with our senior citizens.

Rep. Lewis' speech is an excellent example of what I mean by lead with core values. Well done, DPG!

Here is video of the conclusion of his speech:

There's a transcription after the jump.
-jsq

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