Atlanta Progressive News

VoterGA is questioning how a Georgia Supreme Court Justice candidate could’ve ended up in a run-off despite barely campaigning, comparing the situation of Alvin Greene’s victory in the Democratic Primary in South Carolina this year. “In that case, statewide unverifiable voting equipment recorded Alvin Greene as a near landslide 60-40% winner over Vic Rawl, who actually won the tangible absentee […]

After the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) sent over 300,000 petitions to MSNBC’s president, the network decided to reinstate Keith Olbermann.  He had been suspended indefinitely after the network learned that he had made three campaign contributions to Democrats in the last election cycle.

Good news for transparency in elections and government.  According to Rhonda Dauphin Johnson, Municipal Clerk for the City of Atlanta, the State of Georgia’s website beginning in January 2011 will begin accepting and making public campaign disclosure reports from municipal candidates and elected officials.  Johnson said this was the result of legislation passed by the General Assembly earlier this year. […]

More bad news for Troy Davis, as the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has denied his request to appeal the August ruling against him from Judge William Moore in the Savannah-based Federal Court. Previously, the Supreme Court of the US granted Davis a new trial and remanded the case back to federal court so that his innocence claims could be […]

The Libertarian Party of Georgia claims to have set new records in terms of the proportion of statewide support received by its candidates. All ten of LPG’s statewide candidates got the support of more than one percent of registered voters, thus giving the party statewide ballot access as a political body in 2012 (that is, they again will not have […]

The Metro Atlanta Democratic Socialists of America hosted their 4th annual Frederick Douglass-Eugene V. Debs Dinner at Paschal’s Restaurant.  Kim Bobo, Executive Director of Interfaith Worker Justice, spoke about various forms of wage theft in her keynote address, including businesses not passing along tips to their workers when left on a credit card; not paying a minimum wage; not paying […]