Here's an update on my Open Records Act request to Karen Handel.
I emailed the request on July 17, 2008.
Today I have the response letter.
Nine business days.
Not bad. Hall County responded twice in three days. The second in writing or by snail mail.
The response letter doesn't provide any of the information requested but it does say I can make an appointment to come see the documents that I requested.
Nine normal business days and fifteen calender days to say, "Schedule an appointment?"
Does it strain the credibility of government just a little bit to say, our letter took 6 normal business days to travel in the U.S. mail from Atlanta to Flowery Branch? Just say the check is in the mail ...
Sure, I want to schedule an appointment. Why the flappen H didn't you email or call me?
How long does it take to call me and say, 'Mr. Parker, we have no problem meeting your request. Karen Handel as Secretary of State has no secrets. When would you like to review the records that you need? We have can make you as many copies as you want. Or, we can make a copy of each document for 25 cents a page. We have 100 pages and that will be $25. '
Was that so tough to type in an email?
The longer a government office delays in meeting an open record request, the more likely someone will yell Conspiracy or Cover UP!
Someone call the post office. Seven days for a letter from Atlanta to Flowery Branch. I don't believe it.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
The GOP has left the building
In state after state, voters have turned away from Republican candidates. Why?
Voters aren't turning away from the Party. The Party has lost touch with America.
No matter what Nathan Deal might say in public, the private conversation of Republican to Republican outline the GOP's ideal future.
For example just read the blog maintained by the Hall County Republican Party's Chair at www.epaulstanley.com.
Mr. Stanley, a defense attorney and former prosecutor, rants like a street thug against ... rights, human rights.
How about Nathan Deal's little speech to the 9th District GOP Convention,on April 21, 2008. He praises China and wants the GOP to be like China in a keynote speech to the 9th District GOP Convention,on April 21, 2008, "We must do as the Chinese are planning to do for the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics."
That sounds pretty harmless except I can't help but worry about why Nathan Deal mentions Communist China at all in a speech directed to the core leadership of the GOP. Does the core leadership plan on suppressing human rights. Well, Deal slams 'rights' later in the speech.
But, if Deal wants to use a war metaphor, and he does, why not pick a success story like our own troops? Not proud of our troops? Doesn't want the GOP to be as brave and steadfast as our own soldiers?
Just wants to put on a show for the public while hiding the ugliness behind the brutality of police lines and prisons?
The Nathan Deal and the GOP core leadership doesn't think you have a Right to buy a house, "or a Right to go to college, or a Right to healthcare."
Nathan Deal says, "Obviously, during our 220 years of Constitutional rule, we have elected to have government provide and pay for many of these things, espcially for our poorest citizens, but it has always been based on our humanitarian concerns, not because they were mandated by the rights of citizens."
"Therefore, not everything that is desirable or advantageous is a Right ... [and] ...If we continue to expand these statutorily created Rights there will be no end to it."
Has the government been giving away homeownership? Deal didn't say, low rent housing, subsidized rent ... He said "own."
Are the benefits of Medicare and Medicaid all free or funded from a specific tax and fees paid into a trust fund? Did we start the payroll taxes for the trust funds as a way to avoid government give aways and the shame of putting our citizens on the 'dole?'
Wasn't even the Hope Scholarship in Georgia put into action by a public vote? Students must earn the money by having more than just average grades in high school and by maintaining those grades in college. And, isn't all the money for the Hope paid voluntarily into the scholarship by buying Lottery Tickets? Doesn't sound like the government forcing anyone to buy tickets to fund a scholarship. I guess Nathan Deal wants to stop this program before people get too uppity about scholarships and educating kids.
Nathan Deals is saying it's time for the GOP to adopt oppression and war like methods to win elections.
Get the GOP out of our house.
Voters aren't turning away from the Party. The Party has lost touch with America.
No matter what Nathan Deal might say in public, the private conversation of Republican to Republican outline the GOP's ideal future.
For example just read the blog maintained by the Hall County Republican Party's Chair at www.epaulstanley.com.
Mr. Stanley, a defense attorney and former prosecutor, rants like a street thug against ... rights, human rights.
How about Nathan Deal's little speech to the 9th District GOP Convention,on April 21, 2008. He praises China and wants the GOP to be like China in a keynote speech to the 9th District GOP Convention,on April 21, 2008, "We must do as the Chinese are planning to do for the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics."
That sounds pretty harmless except I can't help but worry about why Nathan Deal mentions Communist China at all in a speech directed to the core leadership of the GOP. Does the core leadership plan on suppressing human rights. Well, Deal slams 'rights' later in the speech.
But, if Deal wants to use a war metaphor, and he does, why not pick a success story like our own troops? Not proud of our troops? Doesn't want the GOP to be as brave and steadfast as our own soldiers?
Just wants to put on a show for the public while hiding the ugliness behind the brutality of police lines and prisons?
The Nathan Deal and the GOP core leadership doesn't think you have a Right to buy a house, "or a Right to go to college, or a Right to healthcare."
Nathan Deal says, "Obviously, during our 220 years of Constitutional rule, we have elected to have government provide and pay for many of these things, espcially for our poorest citizens, but it has always been based on our humanitarian concerns, not because they were mandated by the rights of citizens."
"Therefore, not everything that is desirable or advantageous is a Right ... [and] ...If we continue to expand these statutorily created Rights there will be no end to it."
Has the government been giving away homeownership? Deal didn't say, low rent housing, subsidized rent ... He said "own."
Are the benefits of Medicare and Medicaid all free or funded from a specific tax and fees paid into a trust fund? Did we start the payroll taxes for the trust funds as a way to avoid government give aways and the shame of putting our citizens on the 'dole?'
Wasn't even the Hope Scholarship in Georgia put into action by a public vote? Students must earn the money by having more than just average grades in high school and by maintaining those grades in college. And, isn't all the money for the Hope paid voluntarily into the scholarship by buying Lottery Tickets? Doesn't sound like the government forcing anyone to buy tickets to fund a scholarship. I guess Nathan Deal wants to stop this program before people get too uppity about scholarships and educating kids.
Nathan Deals is saying it's time for the GOP to adopt oppression and war like methods to win elections.
Get the GOP out of our house.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Open letter to Paul Stanley, Hall County Republican Party Chair
Paul,
You've judged the Hall County School Superintendent very clearly on your public blog. All he did wrong was miss his budget by a couple million.
Today, it's official. Bush has missed his budget by half a trillion dollars.
When are you going to fire Bush?
From your blog on the Hall County budget shortage: :People who commit malfeasance or misfeasance in public office often convince themselves they are in the right ... the only job that is good enough is a flawless job ..."
If missing your local budget by a couple million is malfeasance or misfeasance, what does a proper Republican and gatekeeper to the Pure Altar of Republicanism call it when the government is $480 billion dollars short?
Share your thoughts with us, Oh Grand Poobah?
You've judged the Hall County School Superintendent very clearly on your public blog. All he did wrong was miss his budget by a couple million.
Today, it's official. Bush has missed his budget by half a trillion dollars.
When are you going to fire Bush?
From your blog on the Hall County budget shortage: :People who commit malfeasance or misfeasance in public office often convince themselves they are in the right ... the only job that is good enough is a flawless job ..."
If missing your local budget by a couple million is malfeasance or misfeasance, what does a proper Republican and gatekeeper to the Pure Altar of Republicanism call it when the government is $480 billion dollars short?
Share your thoughts with us, Oh Grand Poobah?
Sunday, July 27, 2008
What has Obama done?
Republicans of all kinds want to know.
What has Obama done?
That's a good question and Republicans are demanding an answer.
Obama has defeated a Clinton in an election, a whole string of elections.
And, Obama has defeated the Clinton Political Machine on the national stage.
That's two things no Republican has ever done.
What has Obama done?
That's a good question and Republicans are demanding an answer.
Obama has defeated a Clinton in an election, a whole string of elections.
And, Obama has defeated the Clinton Political Machine on the national stage.
That's two things no Republican has ever done.
Carl Rogers, 26th District, Georgia House of Representatives
Happy Blue Skies, Carl Rogers.
So Carl Rogers is a good Republican, eh, Paul Stanley.
Did you have Tommy Sandoval research that for you? Maybe you don't want to buy your way into an office by out spending all your opponents? Just asking, how much does Tommy Sandoval charge for digging up dirt on the opposition? Is $12 grand a ball park figure?
This is for free and keeps us on the topic of how Republicans do not follow the rules. Call it a personality inventory. In my opinion, to be a Republican by the Hall County Standards, one has to break a few good rules.
Carl Rogers ... ever file any reports late?
Well, how about when you were a bank director? As a bank director you were required to notify the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) whenever you made an insider deal on bank stock. You didn't always do that in a timely manner.
Did you fail to inform the SEC properly that you sort of had another little conflict of interest as a State Legislator in your federal filings? Yeah, I think you did. The federal government and the bank stock holders just might want to know if your insider deals were absolutely clean or absolutely dirty. Just say, insider stock trades in the banking industry in the same sentence with Enron, mortgage foreclosures, and federal government bailouts. Do you get the point of transparency in government and business yet?
Still stonewalling like Richard Nixon, are you? Or, should I say, still stonewalling like a Hall County Republican?
How about the time you tried to vote ... and did vote ... for SB 510 ... without a legal reason to cast a ballot? Do you remember, Mr. Rogers?
You were scheduled to attend the March 16th, 2006 meeting of the Insurance committee. However, you went to the wrong meeting? You went to a meeting for Environmental Quality. How well prepared were you for the discussion on the environment on the day you should have attended the Insurance committee meeting? Did you have any notes on SB510 before voting for it? Or, did you mean to vote against it before you voted for it?
Didn't you notice anything unusual about the meeting? Tom McCall has a very distinctive voice and accent. Has he ever chaired an Insurance committee meeting when you did attend?
Maybe you meant to attend the Appropriations committee meeting and thought, gee, we always talk about the environment and money at the same time. Did the environmental discussion sound like money to you, Carl Rogers?
Maybe we should ask a very good friend of yours, a Mr. Hulsey, who operates a sludge farm in White County, the only one in the state protected by HB54. But, that's an entirely different issue than voting in the wrong room, on the wrong issue, for the wrong reason.
But, did your friendship with the owner of Hulsey Environmental move you to a little, itsy, bitsy, teeny, weeney, mistake that looks like a strong conflict of interest?
Republican voters will never know, will they?
Tommy Sandoval doesn't have a client running against you.
Dirty politics and voter turnoff, brought to you by the party under a tent.
So Carl Rogers is a good Republican, eh, Paul Stanley.
Did you have Tommy Sandoval research that for you? Maybe you don't want to buy your way into an office by out spending all your opponents? Just asking, how much does Tommy Sandoval charge for digging up dirt on the opposition? Is $12 grand a ball park figure?
This is for free and keeps us on the topic of how Republicans do not follow the rules. Call it a personality inventory. In my opinion, to be a Republican by the Hall County Standards, one has to break a few good rules.
Carl Rogers ... ever file any reports late?
Well, how about when you were a bank director? As a bank director you were required to notify the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) whenever you made an insider deal on bank stock. You didn't always do that in a timely manner.
Did you fail to inform the SEC properly that you sort of had another little conflict of interest as a State Legislator in your federal filings? Yeah, I think you did. The federal government and the bank stock holders just might want to know if your insider deals were absolutely clean or absolutely dirty. Just say, insider stock trades in the banking industry in the same sentence with Enron, mortgage foreclosures, and federal government bailouts. Do you get the point of transparency in government and business yet?
Still stonewalling like Richard Nixon, are you? Or, should I say, still stonewalling like a Hall County Republican?
How about the time you tried to vote ... and did vote ... for SB 510 ... without a legal reason to cast a ballot? Do you remember, Mr. Rogers?
You were scheduled to attend the March 16th, 2006 meeting of the Insurance committee. However, you went to the wrong meeting? You went to a meeting for Environmental Quality. How well prepared were you for the discussion on the environment on the day you should have attended the Insurance committee meeting? Did you have any notes on SB510 before voting for it? Or, did you mean to vote against it before you voted for it?
Didn't you notice anything unusual about the meeting? Tom McCall has a very distinctive voice and accent. Has he ever chaired an Insurance committee meeting when you did attend?
Maybe you meant to attend the Appropriations committee meeting and thought, gee, we always talk about the environment and money at the same time. Did the environmental discussion sound like money to you, Carl Rogers?
Maybe we should ask a very good friend of yours, a Mr. Hulsey, who operates a sludge farm in White County, the only one in the state protected by HB54. But, that's an entirely different issue than voting in the wrong room, on the wrong issue, for the wrong reason.
But, did your friendship with the owner of Hulsey Environmental move you to a little, itsy, bitsy, teeny, weeney, mistake that looks like a strong conflict of interest?
Republican voters will never know, will they?
Tommy Sandoval doesn't have a client running against you.
Dirty politics and voter turnoff, brought to you by the party under a tent.
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