Saturday, March 29, 2014

How Will You Vote

Voters don’t typically take the time to research candidates’ positions enough to become “informed voters”.

There are websites where scores are given to rate each legislator’s votes. These include electtherightcandidate.us, a tough conservative website that includes scores for Georgia legislators. The Georgia Legislature isn’t really very Conservative, so these scores are low across the board.  On this website, legislators who are principled Constitutional Conservatives score higher.

The Georgia Senate electtherightcandidate.us overall scores are:   A - Patriot  2%, B Conservative  7%, C Moderate  25%, D Replaceable  RINO  63%, F Threat to Liberty  4%. There are 62 Senators total. Their individual % Scores range from a low of 19% to a high of 91%.
The Georgia House electtherightcandidate.us overall scores are:    A Patriot 5%,   B Conservative 9% ,   C Moderate  13% ,       D Replaceable RINO  47%,  F Threat to Liberty 25%  There are 180 House Reps total with % Scores ranging from a low of 7% to a high of 93 %

Scores for local Dunwoody area politicians from electtherightcandidate.us are: 

Mike Jacobs D Replaceable RINO Score 32% House 80
Tom Taylor   D Replaceable RINO Score 35% House 79

Fran Millar    D Replaceable RINO Score 37% Senate 40

Note: these candidates will score a lot higher on liberal websites like the Chamber of Commerce, or various trade associations, because they cater to these groups.
The State of Georgia is #1 in corruption according to the Center for Public Integrity and remains there today. http://www.stateintegrity.org/georgia

The Georgia State Legislature operates in an insular way. They are more interested in raising revenue from taxpayers and giving insider business cronies and municipalities more access to local tax funds for “economic development”.   
Bad law entered Georgia with a vengeance in 2008 and the anti-populist, top-down trend remains in force.

Governor Deal signed these into law in 2013

SB 81:  On May 6, 2013 Governor Deal signed this bill into law.  This bill destroys property rights.  This bill says that you cannot build your house if a Ginseng plant is on the site.  It says a farmer who harvests Ginseng must replant Ginseng rather than another crop.

SB 24:  On Feb. 13th, Governor Deal signed this bill into law.  This is a hospital bed tax that was required for Georgia to obtain federal funding for Medicaid.

SB 97:  On April 17, 2013, Governor Deal signed this bill into lawThis creates a Georgia beef commission.

HB 208:  On May 6, 2013 Governor Deal signed this bill that forced nursing homes to offer flu vaccines.

SB 212 & HB 354:  Governor Deal signed these bills that forced state control of local school systems.

HB 318:  On April 29, 2013, voted to have taxpayers pay to help fledgling private companies.

Constitutional Conservative Challengers have entered the Primary race and will be on the ballot May 20th 2014.  They are in general agreement on the issues with David Pennington, Dalton GA Mayor and candidate for the Governor’s race.  His positions are in stark contrast with Nathan Deal’s actions as outlined below:
Pennington vs. Deal

David Pennington, Mayor of Dalton GA is running for Governor of Georgia against Gov. Nathan Deal.  The article below from electtherightcandidate.us allows us to see their differences.

Governor Deal signed these into law in 2013

SB 81:  On May 6, 2013 Governor Deal signed this bill into law.  This bill destroys property rights.  This bill says that you cannot build your house if a Ginseng plant is on the site.  It says a farmer who harvests Ginseng must replant Ginseng rather than another crop.

Mayor Pennington said he would have vetoed this bill.  Ginseng is wonderful plant that should be protected on government lands.  He believes this law is counterproductive because it would cause some property owners to secretly remove Ginseng plants on their land to protect their property values.

SB 24:  On Feb. 13th, Governor Deal signed this bill into law.  This is a hospital bed tax that was required for Georgia to obtain federal funding for Medicaid.

Mayor Pennington said he would have vetoed this bill.   He said these federal monies come with strings attached, which allow federal control and often increase costs more than are gained by the federal monies.  On a speech at a Carroll County public meeting he said, the hospital bed tax was originally passed by the Perdue administration as a temporary measure, but Deal got it renewed this year and sent it to an unelected board, which has the power to increase it.  “This is clearly unconstitutional,” he said. “Any tax law has to start in the House and this one was started in the Senate.”

SB 97:  On April 17, 2013, Governor Deal signed this bill into lawThis creates a Georgia beef commission.

Mayor Pennington says that this increases the size of government and like most government programs will expand in the future and likely be used as an instrument of control.  All of the duties of this commission can be done voluntarily through the free market.

HB 208:  On May 6, 2013 Governor Deal signed this bill that forced nursing homes to offer flu vaccines.
 
David Pennington says he would have vetoed this bill.  It may be a good idea for nursing homes to offer flu vaccines but it is not the role of government to force this upon the private sector.  It stifles innovation.  Perhaps in the future a medication could do a better job with less complications.

SB 212 & HB 354:  Governor Deal signed these bills that forced state control of local school systems.

David Pennington says he would have vetoed this bill. He believes that these may be good ideas but local school boards should make the decisions.

HB 318:  On April 29, 2013, voted to have taxpayers pay to help fledgling private companies.

David Pennington says he would have vetoed this bill.  He said government ownership of private companies is socialism.  This bill is nothing more than crony capitalism at taxpayer expense.  Governments are notoriously bad at picking winners.

Source:http://www.electtherightcandidate.us/Candidate/David_Pennington.html

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

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