Holland and Knight attorney Jake Evans on Wednesday was elected as the new chair of the Georgia Government Transparency & Campaign Finance Commission, the five person panel charged with monitoring campaign finance reports and doling out punishments for violations. Evans, a longtime Republican, was elected by his peers on the panel to head up the commission, which will undoubtedly have its hands full coming out of a hotly contested election season. Plagued by scandal and litigation in the past, the commission has turned a corner in recent years and under the new leadership of the highly-regarded Evans its 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…
