Gov. Nathan Deal won’t take sides in the controversy over some Wilcox County teens’ efforts to integrate their prom.
By email, his spokesman, Brian Robinson, said Deal would have no response to a liberal group’s call for state officials, including the governor to speak out.
He wrote, “This is a leftist front group for the state Democratic party and we’re not going to lend a hand to their silly publicity stunt.”
Better Georgia asked Deal and others “to publicly support the students of Wilcox County who are fighting to end a ‘separate-but-equal’ high school prom.”
I am looking at the members now. RBT Solutions is a company, there are 13 members of your task force, five of them work for that same company. Another company that is not listed on here, six people are affiliated with, command consulting group. RBT Solutions is actually in the business, isn’t it, of training school security officers? They would make money, a lot of money, if these recommendations that they voted for on your task force were actually carried out?
Asa:
Well, I doubt that. they’re actually — they do work primarily for overseas military is my understanding.
Lawrence:
So is it your understanding no one is involved in the task force that’s involved with any company that would in any way profit from the recommendation made by this report if it was carried out nationally?
Asa:
I don’t think so.
Lawrence:
And how much were you and the task force members paid for this work?
Asa:
Well, we’re not going to provide you with a line by line.
Lawrence:
Why wouldn’t you do that, congressman?
Asa:
Because it is none of your business, primarily.
Lawrence:
If you’re submitting a report to be evaluated as an independent report, and you’re being paid by the people who you are giving the report to, the credibility of the report rests on a lot of things, including that payment relationship. So I would like to ask you, how much did the National Rifle Association pay you individually to do this, and are they still paying you?
Asa:
Lawrence, let me tell you, I compiled this group of experts to provide the report. Have you read the 252 page report?
Lawrence:
Yes, I have, it is right here on my desk. If there’s any page you want to refer to, I am happy to go straight to it.
That man, Asa Hutchinson, the one in the video who was interviewed by Lawrence O’Donnell, has now announced that he is running for governor of Arkansas:
(CNN) – Asa Hutchinson, the former Republican congressman who helmed the National Rifle Association’s task force on school safety, said Wednesday he was formally jumping into the race for Arkansas governor.
I’m enjoying this immensely. Further on in the article it says that if Perry ran again (he’s just stupid enough to do so), the D running against him would have a shoe-in.
Texas voters- even Republicans- have had enough of Rick Perry.
PPP’s newest poll finds that only 31% of voters think Perry should seek reelection next year, compared to 62% who think it’s time for him to step aside. He’s among the most unpopular Governors in the country, with only 41% of voters approving of him to 54% who disapprove.
Perry could face great peril in a primary challenge next year. Only 41% of GOP primary voters want him to be their candidate again, compared to 47% who think it’s time for someone else. And in a head to head match up with Attorney General Greg Abbott, Perry leads by only a 41/38 margin. What makes those numbers particularly worrisome for Perry is that Abbott only has 59% name recognition at this point with primary voters. Among voters who are familiar with Abbott- whether they like him or not- he leads Perry 55/33. That suggests the potential for things to get worse for Perry if Abbott does indeed go forward with a bid.
And he’s trailling badly behind ever possible future Democratic opponent.
Just last month when we took a first look at the 2014 landscape we talked about how much Rick Snyder had improved his popularity during his second year in office and how he led a generic Democrat for reelection by 6 points, even as Barack Obama won the state comfortably.
Last week he threw all that out the window.
We now find Snyder as one of the most unpopular Governors in the country. Only 38% of voters approve of him to 56% who disapprove. There are only 2 other sitting Governors we’ve polled on who have a worse net approval rating than Snyder’s -18. He’s dropped a net 28 points from our last poll on him, the weekend before the election, when he was at a +10 spread (47/37).
There’s not much doubt that it’s the right to work law and his embrace of other actions by the Republican legislature that are driving this precipitous drop in Snyder’s popularity. Only 41% of voters in the state support the right to work legislation, while 51% are opposed to it. If voters got to decide the issue directly only 40% of them say they would vote to keep the law enacted, while 49% would vote to overturn it. This comes on the heels of voters overturning Snyder’s signature emergency managers law last month. The simple reality is that Michigan voters like unions- 52% have a favorable opinion of them to only 33% with a negative one.
Just a quick FYI, Gov. Jerry Brown has early stage prostate cancer and is being treated with radiation:
(AP) — The 74-year-old Brown is receiving a short course of conventional radiotherapy for “localized prostate cancer,” the statement said.
Brown’s “prognosis is excellent, and there are not expected to be any significant side effects,” University of California, San Francisco oncologist Eric Small said.
Wishing him a speedy recovery. He’s got more than enough to handle here in California, so this was the last thing he needed.
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