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Its payback time. The Republican rift in the state Senate came to a head Tuesday when Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan demoted three Republican senators who have backed attempts to overturn the presidential vote in Georgia over baseless allegations of irregularities.
When the bloodletting was over, state Sens. Brandon Beach of Alpharetta, Matt Brass of Newnan and Burt Jones of Jackson were sapped of their political influence on the second day of the winter session.
As our AJC colleague Maya T. Prabhu reports, Duncan stripped Beach of his chairmanship of the Transportation Committee, while Jones will no longer lead the Insurance and Labor Committee. Neither will serve as even a rank-and-file member on the two panels they once led.
And though state Sen. Matt Brass of Newnan will still be a committee chairman this term, he was shelved to a lesser posting. Instead of serving as chairman of the committee that is set to redraw the political map later this year, hell oversee a banking committee.
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2naSalit
(102,804 posts)TreadSoftly
(339 posts)MyOwnPeace
(17,564 posts)a "hint" early in the post would have helped those (us) from other parts of the country. I felt like I was taking a high school test on "inference."
But, HEY!, great news - actions have consequences!
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)MyOwnPeace
(17,564 posts)but that would be having to dig even deeper into the mystery - and one finds the "article" link at the end of the post - still farther down the rabbit hole.
Just sayin' - give us a hint early - no harm/no foul.
But yeah, maybe next time I'll "try......."
NoRoadUntravelled
(2,626 posts)Deeper investigation is needed but it's a good start. Any MoC determined to have planned, participated or had prior knowledge and remained silent must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. No exceptions.
Metatron
(1,260 posts)He won't get to try and gerrymander