Labor Day 2023

Labor Day 2023

Dewey's Labor Day Message Today is Labor Day, a day we honor and recognize the works and contributions of laborers to the United States.  Although Labor Day is not a union holiday, it is a national holiday and without unions it would not exist. The labor movement is...
Passover, Ramadan and Easter 2023

Passover, Ramadan and Easter 2023

Every 33 years, a Christian, Muslim and Jewish holiday coincide in the spring. Wishing all celebrating today a Happy EasterHappy RamadanHappy Passover May we all come together in peace and...
Sine Die 2023

Sine Die 2023

Sine Die Sine die, the last day of the legislative session is this week. I and other Democratic legislators will be happy to see it because this session has been a tough fight for all of us. Two truly awful bills passed the Georgia House of Representatives this week...
End of session 2023

End of session 2023

Thumbs down on SB 140 The legislative session will be over in a few days and we still have many bills to consider before Sine Die. There is one bill that has passed and the Governor has signed that disturbs me greatly and that is SB 140, better known as the Anti Trans...
The Budget 2022

The Budget 2022

There is a lot of news in the past week about what is known as “Cross Over Day”. A bill must be passed by one chamber by Cross Over Day to be considered by the other chamber, or it is dead until the next session, unless there is a bill that is germane and it can be...