A resurgent year for the Atlanta Braves continues, as the first place squad will send four players – Freddie Freeman, Nick Markakis, Ozzie Albies, and Mike Foltynewicz, to next week’s game in Washington D.C. More good news for the team and their new Cobb County home, where the Battery has seen business booming alongside its hot team. For both the Braves and their new digs the ship is 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…