Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, a Republican candidate for governor, suffered a setback when the State Ethics Commission ruled his ethics complaint against Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, also a GOP gubernatorial hopeful, failed to prove any violation of a campaign finance law. The panel said a financial disclosure report filed by Jones three years prior, detailing his financial assets and standing at that specific point in time, doesn’t form a factual and legal basis to investigate an alleged false or incorrect filing made in a campaign report more than three years later. (Could Carr have gotten some bad legal advice in filing the complaint?) Predictably, a Jones campaign spokeswoman calls it “a political stunt” and “the first of many losses for the Carr campaign.” For now, the attorney general is DRIFTING…
Could Paramount be coming to Georgia?
Paramount Skydance, one of the biggest and most prominent entertainment companies in the world, is furious at its home state of California over a lawsuit filed by the state’s attorney general attempting to stop a merger. In response, Chair David Ellison has threatened to move from Los Angeles to a state not actively suing his company, and Georgia was on the shortlist of possibilities. Gov. Brian Kemp welcomed the speculation at a luncheon Monday (and took a jab at California Gov. Gavin Newsom), and while it’s a longshot the mere possibility of luring Paramount has Georgia RISING…
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