Cobb County officials are always quick to boast about SunTrust Park and the Battery that surrounds it – and come 2021 they’ll get to show it off to the world. Braves officials this week announced that Major League Baseball’s 2021 All-Star Game will be played in Atlanta, showcasing facilities that team officials called “the best in baseball.” The game will join the list of high-profile sporting events to take place in the city in recent years, including a Super Bowl, Final Four, and college football national championship. Promising to draw tens of thousands of baseball fans and the eyes of millions more across the globe, the news has the Braves’ 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…
