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Judge: Obama eligible to be Georgia candidate
President Barack Obama’s name will remain on the Georgia primary ballot after a state law judge flatly rejected legal challenges that contend he can not be a candidate. In a 10-page order, Judge Michael Malihi dismissed one challenge that contended Obama has a computer-generated Hawaiian birth certificate, a fraudulent Social Security number and invalid U.S.
Press Releases: Remarks With Georgia President Mikheil Saakashvili Preceding Bilateral Meeting
Remarks With Georgia President Mikheil Saakashvili Preceding Bilateral Meeting Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC February 1, 2012 var runVideo_5481512_pre = function() { if (typeof BrightcoveExperience == "undefined" && typeof embedded_plugin_status[2] == "undefined") { embedded_plugin_status[2]=1; embedded_plugin_Q[2] = new Array(); embedded_plugin_Q[2 ...
Georgia to Play Bigger Role in Presidential Primary?
Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp says the continuing uncertainty in the Republican primary race could mean that Georgia gets to play a bigger role in selecting the party nominee than originally expected.
Georgia Secretary of State announces changes to licensing process
ATLANTA — Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp announced a plan Monday to streamline the application process for professional licenses, saying that will greatly reduce the time it takes for a lice...
Kemp would assume new powers to cut licensing wait times
Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp wants to take licensing and investigative power from Georgia's 43 professional licensing boards in order to cut wait times for more than 460,000 licensees.
Kemp announces changes to professional licensing process
ATLANTA - Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp announced a plan Monday to streamline the application process for professional licenses, saying that will greatly reduce the time it takes for a license to be granted.
Kemp: GA could be the focus on Super Tuesday
Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp says the continuing uncertainty in the Republican primary race could mean that Georgia gets to play a bigger role in selecting the party nominee than originally expected. As the state with the most delegates at stake in the March 6 Super Tuesday contests, Kemp says it's likely Georgia will be the focus of the candidates and election watchers on that day ...
Kemp wants to cut licensing wait times
Georgia's Secretary of State Brian Kemp wants to take licensing and investigative power from Georgia's 43 professional licensing boards and share those powers with a new seven-member board to cut wait times for more than 460,000 licensees.
Ga. Secretary of State to discuss military voting options
Georgia's Secretary of State Brian Kemp is visiting the will be visiting the Combat Readiness Training Center on Tuesday afternoon to talk about voting, voter registration and access to ballots if they are deployed.
Georgia military, overseas citizens will be able to e-vote absentee
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's military and overseas citizens will be able to participate in the state's upcoming presidential primary by e-vote starting later this month. Secretary of State Brian Kemp s...

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Most Of Dade's Seats Up For The Taking In 2012 Elections
“All politics is local,” the late U.S. Congressman Tip O’Neill famously said. The Sentinel must add, with a twinge of grammatical malaise, that local politics is particularly so.
Savage eyes chairman seat in crowded field
EAST COBB — Larry Savage has a simple reason for challenging Tim Lee for the Cobb Commission chairman seat: “Because I didn’t win last time.” Savage was the only person to challenge two-term Comm...
Ga. commissioner faces bribe charge
BRUNSWICK, Ga. - City Commissioner James H. Brooks, 58, was arrested on a bribery charge Thursday and booked into the Camden County jail.
Harper: Georgia GOP should disown 'birthers'
President Obama appears to have a scheduling conflict. His official calendar has him appearing in Detroit on Thursday, while some are expecting him to appear before a Georgia administrative law judge in a Fulton County courthouse the same day.
New ethics bills could make lawmakers' extramarital affairs with lobbyists even more difficult
A diverse coalition of ethics advocates are doing cartwheels over new legislation (PDF) expected to be soon introduced by state Rep. Tommy Smith, R-Alma, that would clamp down on lobbyist gifts, tighten up disclosure requirements, and increase the amount of time a former public official must wait before registering as a lobbyist. According to the Georgia Alliance for Ethics Reform , which ...
Lee now seeks to reduce rail spending in TIA/TSPLOST
MARIETTA — Chairman Tim Lee and Kennesaw Mayor Mark Mathews and three of Cobb’s state lawmakers now say they will seek to alter the TIA project list and move dollars away from the controversial rai...
Absentee voting begins for Georgia's Super Tuesday primary
Absentee voting for the March 6 Super Tuesday presidential primary in Georgia has started.
Tea party challenges state lawmakers on tax support
Is there a difference between raising taxes and supporting a ballot measure that would raise taxes? Georgia Tea Party activists say no. And they are vowing to stir up trouble for state officials wh...
Barrow sheriff says Facebook campaign notice is legal
A Georgia sheriff who used his department's Facebook page to tell constituents he's seeking re-election insists the posting doesn't violate Georgia campaign ethics laws.