7 hours ago by Erick

I have now seen the Larry O’Neal story. Pete has captured the gist of it accurately. I think the story, upon further reflection, seems to be a bit of dirty pool or amateur journalism — perhaps we should have run it here as opposed to 11 Alive. What I mean is that O’Neal is a lawyer. He does corporat ...

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7 hours ago by Erick

I have dug into Bill Hembree’s district and I think he may need to reconsider running for Speaker. Let’s admit that he will be target number 1 for the Democrats were he Speaker and, frankly, may be target number 1 anyway. His district demographics contrary to a number of reports are trending terribl ...

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8 hours ago by Pete Randall

FOX5’s Dale Russell is reporting this evening on the relationship between Glenn Richardson and lobbyist Raymon White (pictured) in e-mails where the two discuss how and when the former can meet the female lobbyist who he was having an affair with. Russell also noted the many times White filed disclo ...

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16 hours ago by Karen Tumulty

In the Person of the Year issue that was unveiled this morning, I have this profile of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi came in at #4 in the estimation of our editors. She is not only the highest ranking woman in the history of this country, standing second in line of succession to [...]

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1 day ago by Erick

My Friends - I open this by noting it is an unfortunately lengthy email, but its contents are vital because they involve my good name (which I guard jealously) and a complicated piece of tax legislation. Please review this entire email so you can be fully informed in your decision for speaker. Since ...

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1 day ago by Erick

Dear Friends: In less than 48 hours, we will meet to choose the Republican candidate for Speaker. We face a challenging decision in a political climate that has changed rapidly in just a few short weeks. Reform of our House rules and improvements in our ethics laws have suddenly become very fashiona ...

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2 days ago by Pete Randall

This week, disgraced Speaker of the Georgia House Glenn Richardson will earn $2,064.23 for doing nothing. He is still the State Representative from Paulding County and couldn’t even be bothered to attend the majority caucus meeting this last week. And no one currently in leadership seems to have a p ...

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2 days ago by Pete Randall

The allegations concerning Larry O’Neal, Sonny Perdue, and the land deal down in Florida are now well known. Three months after Perdue bought almost 20 acres of never seen land in Osceola County, Florida along a toll-road leading to Disney World, Larry O’Neal (pictured, left) on February 16, 2005 fi ...

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3 days ago by Rep. Allen Peake

As both a colleague of Larry O’Neal’s who supports his campaign for Speaker of the Georgia State House of Representatives, and a frequent reader of Erick and PeachPundit, I wanted to take a moment to provide an accurate portrait of who Larry O’Neal is and what he will do to change the culture of the ...

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3 days ago by Ian Randal Strock

On 4 December 1821, Philip P. Barbour of Virginia became the 12th Speaker of the House of Representatives (he served for about 16 months). In 1836, he became the only Speaker to also serve on the Supreme Court, when Andrew Jackson made him an Associate Justice. Barbour served on the Court until his ...

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