Bad Bills

Bad Bills

We are more than half way through the legislative session, Crossover is Thursday, February 29th which means bills that do not pass one chamber to the other is dead and those that have come from the Senate side for our consideration. I can truly say that some of these...
Speed Cameras

Speed Cameras

Have you been caught by a school zone camera? Many of you know first hand about those school zone cameras that snap pictures of cars speeding through school zones.  Many of my constituents, including 2 of my legislative aides have received fines from these cameras....
Speed Cameras

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...
Interview on GPB

Interview on GPB

We have completed five weeks of the legislative session and last week I, again, introduced a bill to raise the minimum wage in Georgia from $5.15 and hour to $15 an hour. It is an absolutely disgrace that our state minimum wage is so low.  Our state leaders are always...