The small town of Milner (population 1,000) in Lamar County, about 45 minutes southeast of Atlanta, saw its police chief and all five officers resign due to a a “lack of trust in the city council and mayor.” Chief Lamar Bunn accused Mayor Craig Timmons of placing a tracker on his personal truck as part of an odd saga that led to the resignations. Milner city officials say they’ll likely push to unincorporate, since the police were about the only service the county didn’t provide. The odd circumstances have Milner and its residents SINKING…
Senate race spending slows
Georgia has been one of the hottest and most expensive battleground states in the country in recent election cycles, but just ahead of the midterms we’re actually seeing TV spending slow down precipitously. The Senate Leadership Fund, Republicans’ top Senate super PAC, didn’t spend any money on broadcast television in Georgia last week, nor did the Democrats’ Senate Majority PAC, which according to Politico isn’t spending here this week either. The subtext is that strategists seem to think U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff has his race in the bag over U.S. Rep. Mike Collins. We’ll see if that assumption holds true – but the money spigot shutting off has Georgia’s airwaves DRIFTING…
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