Claiming this is due to “Robert E Lee’s birthday” is a complete red herring and disingenuous. Here’s what’s actually going on.
▪️In 2016, the Georgia legislature passed a bill which restricted early voting on Saturdays falling either on a holiday or following a holiday on Thursday or Friday.
https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/document/20152016/162401
▪️Next Saturday happens to follow 2 state holidays. Thanksgiving on Thursday, and a generic “State Holiday” on Friday. This used to be called “Robert E Lee’s Birthday” but was renamed in 2015. Lee’s birthday is actually on Jan 19, but Georgia traditionally celebrated it after Thanksgiving.
https://www.ajc.com/blog/politics/confederate-memorial-day-disappears-from-2016-georgia-holiday-calendars/ef2nD9pIa8itUbrEKhBbvL/
▪️Thus, even if Georgia abolished the “State Holiday” formerly known as Robert E. Lee’s birthday, the law still calls for the restriction because of Thanksgiving! The only reason to bring up Lee is to be disingenuous and misleading, without providing that context.
▪️The reason this is now an issue is because last year the Georgia legislature moved runoff elections to 4 weeks after Election Day instead of 9 weeks, which created the conflict. This even confused the Secretary of State, who initially said there would be Sat voting until his office realized the law prohibited it.
https://www.ajc.com/politics/georgia-holidays-prevent-saturday-voting-before-us-senate-runoff/Q7WG5X7T55AIJEJYLEOJ6JLQ6M/
▪️Democrats have sued Georgia, claiming that this law shouldn’t apply to runoffs, but for now the SoS has ordered no voting on the Sat following Thanksgiving per the law as written. We’ll see how the courts rule.
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2022/nov/15/georgia-sued-over-ban-on-saturday-voting-before-us/
▪️There is still plenty of early voting opportunities, as well as absentee ballots and, of course, the normal election day voting for the runoff election. Just no early Saturday voting after Thanksgiving.
As with the leftist freak out over “banned books” this is not banning books, it’s still easy to get Harry Potter and bookstores should be able to limit whatever books they want for whatever reason. But not only does it show a double standard, the rationale is far less justifiable than removing certain content from school libraries. At least there the justification was the content of certain books are inappropriate for children, clearly not every book should be available in a school library. Here, there’s no argument about the content they just don’t like the author’s politics!
Because news came out about his letter to the FBI, revealing he was a nutcase. The letter was rambling and incoherent, claiming he was trained by the US military off the books, and that Walz had instructed him to kill Amy Klobuchar so he could run for Senate. None of it made any sense (Walz is not running for Senate) and none of the assassinations made any sense, even in a diabolical way.
Nearly all of his hit list was Democrats (including Walz) and abortion clinics, but he was supposedly working for Walz?! Plus, one of the guys he killed wasn’t even on his list, and others were no longer in office or deceased. None of it makes sense from any coherent angle.
Basically, it appears the guy was mentally ill and neither the left or right can use the incident to push their agendas anymore, so the story was dropped.
This is so dumb. First, this means LA began as Spanish land founded to support Spanish missions (i.e. colonialism). Which contradicts their entire premise. But the reality is that Los Angeles is a quintessential American city.
▪️When the US acquired California in the 1840s, LA was a small town of less than 2,000 people. It was basically nothing. It became large only after the gold rush and the railroads completed in the 1870-80s, which brought thousands of new settlers and a booming commercial center.
▪️But LA had a major issue limiting its growth, no water. It wasn’t until Mulholland found a water source and built an aqueduct down from Northern California that LA had the infrastructure to grow into a major city.
▪️Then, a combination of oil, real estate and the film industry caused it to boom in the early 1900s. Post WWII, industries like aerospace continued its spectacular growth. Calling this “Mexican land” is a brain dead take. Neither the Mexicans, Spanish nor ...
