{"id":11508,"date":"2018-03-16T11:11:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T16:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=11508"},"modified":"2018-03-16T11:11:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T16:11:18","slug":"chattanooga-free-press-after-vote-against-immigration-id-georgia-state-senator-faces-challenge-from-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/16\/chattanooga-free-press-after-vote-against-immigration-id-georgia-state-senator-faces-challenge-from-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Chattanooga Free Press: After vote against immigration ID, Georgia state senator faces challenge from right"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Republican state senator Chuck Payne. Photo: Senate website.<\/p><\/div>\n

Chattanooga Free Press<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

After vote against immigration ID, Georgia state senator faces challenge from right<\/p>\n

After opposing a bill to create a separate driver’s license for some immigrants, state Sen. Chuck Payne faces competition in the Republican primary.<\/p>\n

Payne, R-Dalton, voted down a bill in the Senate Public Safety Committee that would have created a new “Driver’s Safety Card” for immigrants who hold work permits but do not have lawful status. It would be an alternative to a driver’s license and only last as long as the work permit. They would also say “NO LAWFUL STATUS” and “NOT ACCEPTABLE FOR OFFICIAL PURPOSES.”<\/p>\n

With Payne’s vote, the bill died in committee, 5-4, on Feb. 21. He and state Sen. Kay Kirkpatrick voted with three Democrats to kill the legislation. The supporters were all Republicans…. Here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Chattanooga Free Press After vote against immigration ID, Georgia state senator faces challenge from right After opposing a bill to create a separate driver’s license for some immigrants, state Sen. Chuck Payne faces competition in the Republican primary. Payne, R-Dalton, voted down a bill in the Senate Public Safety Committee that would have created […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11534,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11508\/revisions\/11534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}