http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:10:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/25/project-vote-smart-declares-georgia-candidates-scaredy-pants/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/25/project-vote-smart-declares-georgia-candidates-scaredy-pants/#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:13:26 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=6420 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/25/project-vote-smart-declares-georgia-candidates-scaredy-pants/feed/ 0 Don’t count on Georgia’s candidates for Congressional and state offices to tell you what they think on the issues. That’s what Project Vote Smart, a national research organization founded by Newt Gingrich, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and numerous other political leaders of all parties, concluded in its regular survey of the bunch. According to the organization, only [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2006/11/15/marshall-and-barrow-should-say-gracias/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2006/11/15/marshall-and-barrow-should-say-gracias/#comments Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:30:56 +0000 Alejandro A. Leal http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2006/11/15/marshall-and-barrow-should-say-gracias/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2006/11/15/marshall-and-barrow-should-say-gracias/feed/ 0 At last week’s Political Party talk show, state Sen. Sam Zamarripa, one of the General Assembly’s few Hispanic members, reiterated one of the many nuggets of conventional wisdom that emerged during this election year: Immigration was used as a wedge issue. But the issue sort of fizzled in the home stretch of this year’s midterm elections. Now, [...]