(APN) ATLANTA — In Atlanta Progressive News’s ongoing coverage to the State House District 80 Special Election, which will take place on Tuesday, July 14, 2015, this article presents questionnaire responses from candidate Taylor Bennett. District 80 includes parts of Sandy Springs in Fulton County and Brookhaven in DeKalb. In a four-person race in a Special Election with […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — Michelle Nunn, the centrist candidate seeking the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Georgia, is facing severe criticism from progressive Democrats and from Republicans alike, for her and her campaign’s tactics of vaguery, inaccessibility, equivocation, and deception, and for Republican-lite policy positions that are neither progressive nor openly right-wing. Progressive Democrats, including her opponents in […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — Former State Sen. Robert Brown, 61, who had served as Georgia State Senate Minority Leader until earlier this year, was found dead this week in an apparent suicide. Brown graduated from Mercer University in Macon, and went on to be a strong advocate for the school. He was elected to the State Senate in 1991, in a […]
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