A Republican-led U.S. Senate bill to prevent boys from participating in girls’ sports failed to overcome a filibuster on Monday after it didn’t reach the necessary 60-vote threshold to advance. The bill failed by a vote of 51-45— with all Democrats including Georgians Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock voting no. The “Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act” would require Title IX to treat gender as “recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.” Polls indicate over 80 percent of the American people support passage of the ban, so the backlash against Ossoff and Warnock have them SINKING…
Carr joins LSU football fight
In the South, college football is religion – and now it’s politics too. Members of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) are furious with LSU over its attempts to sign players already in the NFL to come back to college to play for the Tigers. On Wednesday, Attorney General Chris Carr, (presumably at the behest of some big names at UGA) urged the SEC to take “all measures available” against LSU. Thursday, the league heeded that advice, suing LSU Head Coach Lane Kiffin. The legal quagmire pitting the conference against itself has LSU SINKING…
