Jim Galloway

How to avoid the pain and expense of a hot GOP primary?...

ajc.com — Sandra Deal, wife of the governor, has asked them to play nice. Don't "destroy" each other, she has begged. But her plea for sandbox rules is unlikely to have any effect. Next year, four or five prominent Republicans will conduct scorched-earth campaigns for the nomination to replace Saxby Chambliss in the U.S.

How to avoid the pain and expense of a hot GOP primary?...

myajc.com — Sandra Deal, wife of the governor, has asked them to play nice. Don't "destroy" each other, she has begged. But her plea for sandbox rules is unlikely to have any effect. Next year, four or five prominent Republicans will conduct scorched-earth campaigns for the nomination to replace Saxby Chambliss in the U.S.

John McCain promises a Saxby Chambliss "aye" on immigration

ajc.com — WASHINGTON -- The landmark immigration reform bill made it through a Senate committee last night, and its key backers are hard at work wooing their colleagues before it hits the floor, as witnessed today by Georgia Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss. Chambliss shared a ride on the subterranean train from Russell Senate Office Building to the Capitol with Arizona Republican Sens.

Brooks pleads not guilty, released on bond

ajc.com — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution State Rep. Tyrone Brooks Sr., accompanied by former Gov. Roy Barnes as his attorney, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to fraud and tax evasion charges. Brooks, an Atlanta Democrat, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Alan Baverman, who allowed the longtime lawmaker to remain free until trial on an unsecured $25,000 bond.

IRS's Lerner Had History of Harassment, Inappropriate Religious Inquiries at FEC

weeklystandard.com — Perhaps no other IRS official is more intimately associated with the tax agency's growing scandal than Lois Lerner, director of the IRS's Exempt Organizations Division. Since admitting the IRS harassed hundreds of conservative and Tea Party groups for over two years, Lerner has been criticized for a number of untruths -including the revelation that she apparently lied about planting a question at an American Bar Association conference where she first publicly acknowledged IRS misconduct.