Looking for a big winner from Tuesday’s primaries? Black women voters powered Democratic turnout, with candidates winning up and down the ballot. Keisha Lance Bottoms easily avoided a runoff in the gubernatorial primary, while state Rep. Tanya Miller dominated her attorney general race. Penny Brown Reynolds took the most votes in the secretary of state primary, and state Rep. Jasmine Clark won outright in Atlanta’s 13th Congressional District. The power of the black female voting bloc in Georgia elections is RISING…
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…
