Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat has been sounding the alarm over his county’s overcrowded jails for more than a year, and recently he came to an agreement with Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens to lease 700 beds at the Atlanta City Detention Center to alleviate the issue. But members of the Atlanta City Council have pushed back on the agreement, and while signing off on the lease added in a mandatory 90 day study that Labat calls “a stall tactic” that is forcing hundreds of Fulton County Jail inmates to sleep on the ground. Playing politics while Fulton law enforcement officials look to prevent a jail housing crisis has the City Council SINKING…
Trump rally targets base & low propensity voters
President Donald Trump is in Dalton on Friday and his rally will certainly be a newsworthy event attended by a faithful base. And that’s the point. This is a base mid-term election (for both parties) and, as proven in the past, Trump can motivate not only the “MAGA GOP” but low propensity GOP and independent voters who otherwise might stay at home. Trump’s presence also seeks to boost GOP turnout for gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson and U.S. Senate candidate Mike Collins. The rally will obviously generate publicity for Republicans and their policies but also Democrat attacks. In any event, since the margin of statewide victory for Georgia Republicans presently appears narrow, their hope is that the attention-grabbing rally will have their poll numbers RISING…
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