http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:32:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/18/keen-out-johnson-in-the-running/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/18/keen-out-johnson-in-the-running/#comments Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:20:20 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=11164 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/18/keen-out-johnson-in-the-running/feed/ 2 Rep. Jerry Keen won't run for governor; Sen. Eric Johnson is running for lieutenant governor. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/18/new-senate-gop-leadership-named/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/18/new-senate-gop-leadership-named/#comments Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:25:56 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=9356 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/18/new-senate-gop-leadership-named/feed/ 0 Sen. Tommie Williams will be the new Senate president pro tem, for what that's worth. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/12/theyll-do-it-every-time/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/12/theyll-do-it-every-time/#comments Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:44:09 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=9060 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/12/theyll-do-it-every-time/feed/ 0 Changing election rules because you don't like the most recent outcome is whack. But that's what the Georgia GOP has in mind. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/10/21/why-early-voting-scares-eric-the-untold-story/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/10/21/why-early-voting-scares-eric-the-untold-story/#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:04:56 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=7719 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/10/21/why-early-voting-scares-eric-the-untold-story/feed/ 4 Hidden statistics in the early-voting numbers show that the election is going worse for Republicans than most people realize. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/01/sen-eric-johnson-to-run-for-lieutenant-governor-in-2010/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/01/sen-eric-johnson-to-run-for-lieutenant-governor-in-2010/#comments Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:01:59 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/01/sen-eric-johnson-to-run-for-lieutenant-governor-in-2010/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/01/sen-eric-johnson-to-run-for-lieutenant-governor-in-2010/feed/ 1 Dick Pettys of InsiderAdvantage brings news that Sen. Eric Johnson, R-Savannah, has confirmed that he’ll run for lieutenant governor in 2010 — but only if Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle decides he won’t seek another term in office. Johnson’s a champion for education — that was one of his pet projects during the last legislative session. [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/07/sen-eric-johnson-bids-blogging-adieu/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/07/sen-eric-johnson-bids-blogging-adieu/#comments Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:02:17 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/07/sen-eric-johnson-bids-blogging-adieu/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/07/sen-eric-johnson-bids-blogging-adieu/feed/ 0 From the state Senate President Pro Tem’s sine die post on his now-shuttered blog: * I hope you enjoyed this blog because I will never do another one. Man, it was hard. I don’t know how reporters and columnists do this day after day. I wanted to educate and entertain. I hope I did a [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/03/07/the-session-thus-far-acccording-to-sen-eric-johnson/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/03/07/the-session-thus-far-acccording-to-sen-eric-johnson/#comments Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:24:11 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/03/07/the-session-thus-far-acccording-to-sen-eric-johnson/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/03/07/the-session-thus-far-acccording-to-sen-eric-johnson/feed/ 0 The state Senate president pro tem — he who bloggeth — adds some numbers to the legislative session going on under the Gold Dome: * In the two year session, 1,956 bills have been introduced (or an average of 8.3 per legislator). There have been 2,632 resolutions introduced (or 11 per member). Most resolutions are just [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/02/22/sen-eric-johnson-explains-lobbyist-lizards/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/02/22/sen-eric-johnson-explains-lobbyist-lizards/#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:29:55 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/02/22/sen-eric-johnson-explains-lobbyist-lizards/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/02/22/sen-eric-johnson-explains-lobbyist-lizards/feed/ 0 Of the few politicians who write blogs, state Senate President Pro-Tem Eric Johnson does a great job — and I really mean that. Often times the posts legislators write are rambling or appear half-hearted. Sometimes they overuse exclamation points. Johnson writes these bizarrely captivating bullet-point posts about his day and the political process, what [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/21/sen-eric-johnson-fresh-loaf-enthusiast/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/21/sen-eric-johnson-fresh-loaf-enthusiast/#comments Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:52:47 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/21/sen-eric-johnson-fresh-loaf-enthusiast/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/21/sen-eric-johnson-fresh-loaf-enthusiast/feed/ 3 The influence of Fresh Loaf reaches the highest levels of government, as evident from a brief exchange I had with Sen. Eric Johnson, R-The Garden of Good and Evil, after Wednesday’s Senate committee hearing about the statewide water plan. After chatting for a moment — and wondering if the gentleman from Savannah was going to pummel [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/16/as-water-plan-trickles-through-general-assembly-critics-point-its-out-faults/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/16/as-water-plan-trickles-through-general-assembly-critics-point-its-out-faults/#comments Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:37:28 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/16/as-water-plan-trickles-through-general-assembly-critics-point-its-out-faults/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/16/as-water-plan-trickles-through-general-assembly-critics-point-its-out-faults/feed/ 0 What’s bound to happen to the state’s first-ever comprehensive water plan? Even though both the state House and Senate Environment and Natural Resources committees have met, it’s still too early to tell. State Environmental Protection Director Carol Couch, appearing before Senate and House environment committees last night and this morning, respectively, worked to dispel the “myths” [...]