As part of the U.S. Mint’s national park series of special quarters, Georgia’s Cumberland Island will be featured starting in August of 2018. The coin will show a snowy egret perched on a branch in front of a salt marsh, a common site on the historic and largely undeveloped island. For Georgia and the crown-jewel of its extensive string of barrier islands, this honor and recognition has the ship RISING…
Dems find mess in CD-11
Georgia Democrats had a mess on their hands in the 11th Congressional District outside Atlanta after the party nominated Katy Stamper, later finding out she wasn’t a Democrat at all and had far-right political leanings. So they launched a write-in campaign promoting Tracey Verhoeven as the ‘real’ Dem in the race. It didn’t matter in the end as U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk cruised to re-election, but Stamper still got 32% of the vote to just 3% for Verhoeven. A failed write-in campaign and a messy election in CD-11 has Democrats there SINKING…
