Immigration march right now in Valdosta, Georgia

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Saturday June 25, 2011 · 12:42 PM PDT

2011/06/25 · 12:42

I cannot recall Latinos of Lowndes County ever marching for anything before. Gov. Deal and GA Rs have gone and done it: waked up a sleeping Democratic constituency in south Georgia:
JORNADA DE PAZ, GRATITUD Y PRESENCIA. Day of Peace, Gratitute, and Presence

Time	Saturday, June 25 · 3:00pm - 6:00pm
Location	Ollympic Park of Valdosta (Between Patterson St and Toombs St. Cerca del Departamento de Salud - Near de Health Dept. Valdosta, GA
More Info	Explicacion de la Ley HB87, Musica, Discursos, Testimonios, ALabanza, Comida, y muchas cosas mas.... This is the MARCH that Latinos/Hispanics of Valdosta and Lownes County are organizing to discuss immigrations issues. They are asking for your presence and support. Hope you can participate in this event.

Y'all come!
I can't be there because I'm four hours away in Atlanta, but I sent this message:

Dear DPG: Lead with core values

Dear DPG: Lead with core values

jayskew

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Saturday June 25, 2011 · 12:20 PM PDT

2011/06/25 · 12:20

I sent this message to the Democratic Party of Georgia (DPG) today:

Howdy!

Back in Augusta I promised to send a letter to Jeana Brown,
GA-1 chair for DPG, as input to DPG thought processes.
This message is an overview, which I will follow up
over time with several messages focussed on specific aspects.

It's good to see the DPG facebook page has values right up front: honest leadership, open government, jobs, education, everyone, dignity, security, "policies that benefit everyone--not just the most fortunate Georgians."

Now can we see those values right up front in every message from DPG?

Here's why:

Poll

4 votes Show Results

What are Democratic core values?

4 votes Vote Now!

What are Democratic core values?

Jobs, food, civil rights, and energy independence

2 votes

All folks are equal, yall!

2 votes

Reacting to Republicans

0 votes

That's above my pay grade

0 votes

There's nothing you can do

0 votes

May Day, Eight Hours, and Haymarket

jayskew

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Sunday May 01, 2011 · 7:20 PM PDT

2011/05/01 · 19:20

Today is May Day, remembered in most of the world for the movement for an eight hour day, culminating May 1^st, 1886, with 80,000 people marching down Michigan Avenue in Chicago, chanting:

"Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest and eight hours for what you will."

Photograph byTobias Higbe. Read More

Sanford Bishop supported HCR, will you support him? GA-02

jayskew

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Thursday October 28, 2010 · 8:00 PM PDT

2010/10/28 · 20:00

kos writes today:

"but I'll be cheering the losses of the Marhsalls, Bishops and Boyds."

That is one of the more ignorant statements I've ever seen on dailykos. Jim Marshall opposed HCR. Sanford Bishop went way out on a limb to support HCR because he was convinced it was the right thing to do.

This is the man kos wishes to lose:

Here is his impassioned advocacy of health care reform, including the public option:

Poll

38 votes Show Results

Will you support Sanford Bishop for GA-02?

38 votes Vote Now!

Will you support Sanford Bishop for GA-02?

Nah, kos doesn't like him.

1 vote

Nope, all Blue Dogs are alike.

9 votes

Can't, he's from the south, so he deserves to lose.

12 votes

For sure; he supported HCR, and I've got his back.

6 votes

He's a progressive, and so am I, so yes.

6 votes

Kos can't tell a Bishop from a Barrow, so of course I'm supporting Bishop.

4 votes

This is a question?

0 votes

Personhood in Georgia, or, the Zygote Census

jayskew

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday June 23, 2010 · 3:45 PM PDT

2010/06/23 · 15:45

biology flashcards

No, not corporate personhood. Zygote personhood:

Question: Personhood Initiative

Do you support an amendment to the Georgia Constitution so as to provide that the paramount right to life is vested in each human being from their earliest biological beginning until natural death?

The Georgia Republican Party put that on the Republican primary ballot. It's quite divisive even within the state GOP. For example, Georgia Catholic bishops declined to support it (as did Catholic bishiops in Florida, Montana, and North Dakota).

So it would be most interesting to get every Republican candidate in the state of Georgia on record for or against this Personhood Initiative. Either way, Republicans fight with each other, and Democrats gain. Seems like a good question for every gathering including Republican candidates...

Oh, and the actual initiative would prohibit contraception,

Poll

63 votes Show Results

I support the Personhood Initiative because:

63 votes Vote Now!

I support the Personhood Initiative because:

Every sperm is sacred!

13 votes

Zygotes should be censussed.

3 votes

Expectant mothers should use HOV lanes!

13 votes

This will outlaw cloning for good.

1 vote

No, only in Colorado.

0 votes

What?!

6 votes

Hell no!

27 votes

RJ Hadley for GA-Sen Goes to the Teabaggers' Den

jayskew

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday April 07, 2010 · 2:39 PM PDT

2010/04/07 · 14:39

Thomasville, GA loves to send teabaggers out to protest Democrats. Yet Democratic Senate candidate RJ Hadley gets good press there and tomorrow will attend two events in Thomasville, taking his campaign for the U.S. Senate to the teabaggers' den.

So why should Georgia elect a black Yankee Ivy League computer scientist to the Senate?

Poll

26 votes Show Results

Why should RJ win GA-Sen?

26 votes Vote Now!

Why should RJ win GA-Sen?

If his granddaddy was a Georgian, so is he.

1 vote

Because he's a progressive Democrat.

16 votes

Because he gives a hell of a speech.

1 vote

Because I'm going to vote for him.

5 votes

Because I'm going to get people to vote for him.

0 votes

Because I'm going to donate.

1 vote

I dunno, but I'll go to T-ville tomorrow and see.

1 vote

Nah, I like the guy who asked for stimulus funds before he voted against it.

1 vote

Sanford Bishop OutFoxes Teabaggers at Thank You Rally

jayskew

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Saturday April 03, 2010 · 11:44 AM PDT

2010/04/03 · 11:44

Sanford Bishop has been targetted by teabaggers for many months now, yet he voted for health care reform. So a bunch of us went to Albany, Ga. to thank him. Look what's missing! No teabaggers. The organizers outfoxed them. Even the press was positive. Get this irony: the only TV coverage was the local Fox affiliate, and it was positive:

Poll

51 votes Show Results

What will you do to help re-elect Sanford Bishop?

51 votes Vote Now!

What will you do to help re-elect Sanford Bishop?

Write a letter to the editor

1 vote

Donate

19 votes

Attend a rally

1 vote

Volunteer

3 votes

Vote for him

4 votes

Make sure my friends and neighbors go to vote

2 votes

Vote? I don't vote

1 vote

Who's Sanford Bishop?

4 votes

Nothing, I want the government out of my Medicare!

16 votes

Kingston (R GA-01) Incites Obstructionists, Tours Town Halls

jayskew

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Sunday March 28, 2010 · 8:06 AM PDT

2010/03/28 · 08:06

While Democratic Congress members were inside the Capitol working to pass health care reform, Jack Kingston (R GA-01) used a bullhorn to incite protesters to drown them out:

Jack's back, touring town halls throughout Georgia's First District starting tomorrow.
He says:

Kingston encourages all citizens to attend and bring with them a "to do" list with their ideas to discuss at the meeting.

So let's take him up on his offer. Let's show up and talk about things we care about. Think it's a waste of time? It's not. Here's why.

Poll

21 votes Show Results

What will you ask Kingston?

21 votes Vote Now!

What will you ask Kingston?

You ran on a platform of term limits; when will you retire?

5 votes

Why do you want to force students to pay more for student loans by repealing the recent legislation and putting banks back in the middle?

2 votes

Why don't we end the war in Iraq to free up funds for health care?

3 votes

You have health care coverage as a member of Congress; why don't you want everybody else to have it?

3 votes

Why did you vote against the Stimulus bill and then brag about how much money it brings into the district without mentioning where it comes from?

5 votes

Where's your flag pin?

3 votes

Help Jack "flag pin" Kingston Help America!

jayskew

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday February 17, 2010 · 8:10 PM PST

2010/02/17 · 20:10

So I got this message from Jack Kingston (R GA-01) last week, asking for help "to form a new agenda for America's future". Maybe he's tired of "Get married and work longer hours!" as policy prescriptions.

Hey, I finally met Jack the other week, and had a nice conversation about local history with him (yes, my great-aunt told me about the elephant). And he represents the entire First Congressional District of Georgia, even those of us who didn't vote for him. So let's help him out!

Whaddya think?
Single-payer health care?
End Don't Ask Don't Tell?
Try the war criminals Cheney and Bush!
Kucinich and Grayson for President and Vice President?
OK, maybe not get too carried away; he is a Republican.

Here's the text of Jack's letter:

Poll

18 votes Show Results

How Can Jack Kingston Help America?

18 votes Vote Now!

How Can Jack Kingston Help America?

Repeal DOMA?

0 votes

End Don't Ask Don't Tell?

0 votes

Medicare for Everyone?

6 votes

Repeal No Child Left Behind?

0 votes

Passenger Rail for Georgia and the Nation?

1 vote

End corporate welfare for big agribusiness?

1 vote

Invest in clean energy (solar and wind, not coal)?

0 votes

Invest in jobs that make something?

0 votes

Stop the Ponzi scheme of housing and development?

0 votes

Break up the "too big to fail" banks?

0 votes

End the wars?

1 vote

Fund education, not militarization?

0 votes

End corporate personhood?

2 votes

Public financing of campaigns?

2 votes

Term limits! (Kingston ran on that in 1992)

5 votes

Jack Kingston would rather have an airplane than health care reform

jayskew

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Saturday November 07, 2009 · 1:39 PM PST

2009/11/07 · 13:39

Jack "flag pin" Kingston (R GA-01) just sent me a message:

Picture of a C-37 by Wee in YYC,
CC attribution noncommercial share-alike.

The plan offered by Speaker Pelosi amounts to a wrecking ball for our economy and I oppose it vehemently. I support targeted reforms that bring about more competition and expand access without increasing your taxes, raising your premiums, or cutting Medicare benefits.

Yeah, right. I went to both of Kingston's health care town halls in Valdosta, GA, and all he offers is competition (as in "shopping around for Lasik"), tax breaks, and vouchers, plus extending students' time on parents' health insurance and making employers pay for health care for illegal aliens. And he hasn't offered a single bill or amendment to actually do any of those things.

Why a C-37?

Poll

19 votes Show Results

Why a C-37?

19 votes Vote Now!

Why a C-37?

Because Kingston is Chair of the GOP Theme Team!

2 votes

Because General Petraeus takes one.

2 votes

Because Kingston is frugal!

0 votes

Why a duck?

0 votes

Because Kingston flying in style is more important than people dying.

8 votes

I don't care about the damn plane: I'm calling his office right now about health care reform.

2 votes

(202) 225-5831

5 votes

Replace Isakson (R GA-Sen) with RJ Hadley (D)

jayskew

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday October 28, 2009 · 6:05 AM PDT

2009/10/28 · 06:05

Johnny Isakson (R GA-Sen) was one of the 30 Republicans who voted against Al Franken's amendment to require choice of judicial trials by federal contractor employees after a KBR employee was gang raped in Iraq. Here's a chance to replace Isakson with a progressive Democrat, RJ Hadley.
RJ Hadley came to Valdosta, Georgia to speak at a rally in support of president Obama:

I was asleep before; I'll admit.
But then I heard this great man talking.
And I heard him say that we are the change.
And I heard him say that change would be possible.

Lee Touchton, secretary and former president of the NAACP here in Valdosta (that's right, a white woman in the NAACP) reminds us of what Isakson voted for and why we should unelect him and replace him with RJ Hadley:

Poll

30 votes Show Results

Why replace Isakson with RJ Hadley?

30 votes Vote Now!

Why replace Isakson with RJ Hadley?

No reason; domestic abuse is a pre-existing condition.

1 vote

Besides, I like deathers.

0 votes

Because we need a public option.

2 votes

Because we'd like a Senator who represents us, not the medical-insurance complex.

5 votes

Because RJ Hadley acts like he's alive.

2 votes

Because it is about rich and poor.

3 votes

Because RJ Hadley will work to help president Obama without being a yes man.

7 votes

Because electing RJ Hadley will show the strength of Democrats and progressives throughout the land.

7 votes

Atlanta will decide everything anyway, so we don't care what you think.

2 votes

I don't really care; I just came here to say civil war, Confederates, out of step.

1 vote

Dialing it Back Up in Valdosta, GA

jayskew

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Saturday October 24, 2009 · 11:49 AM PDT

2009/10/24 · 11:49

A crowd of Obama supporters showed up on the Lowndes County, GA courthouse steps on a cold Saturday to hear a dozen speakers for more than two hours. A diverse group of black and white, old and young, from three local counties and a U.S. Senate candidate from far away.

And no teabaggers. Jack "Flag Pin" Kingston (R GA-01) previously taunted Democrats:

“If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.” Timid or arrogant Democrats who conveniently use the wrath of a few protestors to cancel town meetings should be reminded that these words came from one of their own: Harry Truman.

Well, we can stand the heat. And the cold wind on the courthouse steps.

Not only that, Jim Parker has a request for Jack Kingston:

Poll

20 votes Show Results

Can Democrats stand the heat?

20 votes Vote Now!

Can Democrats stand the heat?

Nah, let the Republicans have the kitchen.

2 votes

We did what we could, and we're sleeping now.

1 vote

Cool Hand Luke has waked us up!

0 votes

We can no longer sit quietly by ... get on board!

8 votes

Yes, and the cold wind, with a cattle prod!

5 votes

Obama! Obama! Obama!

2 votes

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

0 votes

Atlanta! Atlanta! Atlanta!

1 vote

Civil war. Confederates. Out of step.

1 vote

Newer
Older

RSS