Dems Hope and Change

AJC 5/21/18, page 1 article “Democrats: Evans, Abrams split over changes to Hope. Evans has accused Abrams for not doing enough to mitigate the budget cuts imposed by the Georgia Legislature and suffered by the Hope Scholarship. Evans was a Hope Scholarship student at UGA, got a degree, went to law school and became a Democrat.

The Republican story about hope and change was not printed, because the AJC is a Democrat newspaper.  All Republicans will vote to avoid changing the Georgia Legislature to Democrat control. Very conservative Constitutional Republicans hope more Constitutional Republicans will replace the Republicans In Name Only (RINOs). Conservatives will be voting for Mike Williams and Hunter Hill, hoping to unseat Establishment candidates Cagle and Kemp. We certainly won’t vote for any Democrats, because we don’t want to end up like Venezuela.

Conservative Republicans in Georgia we estimate to be about 45% of the Georgia Republican voters. There are 180 Tea Party and other conservative groups in Georgia. I met them in 2011 when we had State-wide meetings in Cherokee County and again in 2012 when we opposed the 2012 T-SPLOST scam. We attempted to warn the Georgia Legislators against UN Agenda 21 legislation like Regionalism, but they didn’t listen.  We attempted to elect reformer Alex Johnson to become the GA GOP Chairman in 2013 and again in 2015 and 2017 and came within 5%.

We don’t like GA Establishment outcomes or tactics. They hand-pick candidates who will go along to get along. We want reformers who will go after repealing bad Georgia Law. These are laws that have silenced voter input and allowed local government councils and commissions to spend and borrow without limits and without voter input. We want all UN Agenda 21 enabling laws repealed.

We want public transit privatized to get rid of the tax subsidies. We want to end the nanny state. We want to end government borrowing through wasteful Bond sales. We want Georgia to adhere to “enumerated powers” and limit their footprint. We oppose “economic development” with tax dollars. We want our roads and sewer systems fixed.

We want to limit campaign contributions to voters and let special interests use their own websites to make their case. We need to give education and healthcare incentives to reduce waste and unsustainable costs. We want to return the economy to the free market with no subsidies, so that prices can be controlled by consumers.

You won’t see a lot of battles between Democrats and RINOs in the Georgia Legislature.  It’s an easy gig for Democrats.  The RINOs agree with the Democrats more often than not.  So, Democrats are comfortable working with Republicans who vote like Democrats.

The one thing the RINOs will fight for is to keep implementing UN Agenda 21. They love to waste tax dollars to bribe crony developers to overspend on a myriad of things that don’t work. They love empty on-street bike lanes and empty public transit trains and buses. They love greenspace and overdesigned intersections with roundabouts and “traffic calming features”. They love “economic development” projects that don’t work. They love toll lanes, because they don’t want to do their job and keep the roads fixed. They don’t like spending money on sewer and water systems, so they don’t.

They want federal grants for everything. It’s like watching them play “musical chairs” and we never know when the music will stop.

They love unlimited power for municipalities to spend and borrow as much as possible without voter input.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader