{"id":11739,"date":"2018-03-28T09:25:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T14:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=11739"},"modified":"2018-03-31T10:26:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T15:26:04","slug":"ajc-gets-it-wrong-completely-inaccurate-report-on-important-senate-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/28\/ajc-gets-it-wrong-completely-inaccurate-report-on-important-senate-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"AJC gets it wrong: Inaccurate report on important senate amendment *UPDATE – Galloway corrected the copy, but as usual for the AJC, there was no notation of the error or the correction"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Drivers license issued to all non-citizens in Georgia, legal status or illegal status. Photo: DDS<\/p><\/div>\n

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The AJC, in it’s “Politically Georgia”<\/a> email report (and on Jim Galloway’s blog and Twitter page) gets it wrong on an amendment offered by Senator Josh McKoon (Amendment #6<\/a>) to HB 673. The amendment said DDS could not issue drivers licenses and ID cards to illegal aliens that are REAL ID Act compliant, which is currently the only tier of credential issued.<\/p>\n

It allowed for a second tier of license\/ID Card for illegal aliens<\/a>\u00a0as per\u00a0the REAL ID Act<\/a>\u00a0that would not be acceptable for federal ID such as boarding an airliner or entering a military base. But it could still be used for driving privileges.<\/p>\n

AJC today:<\/p>\n

“State Sen. Josh McKoon, R-Columbus, a candidate for secretary of state, tried the same tactic, but didn\u2019t get the same kind of pushback.<\/p>\n

Prabhu reports that McKoon introduced and then withdrew an amendment that would have made it harder for teens to get a court waiver to avoid having to notify their parents about an abortion.<\/p>\n

And he unsuccessfully sought an amendment during the debate of the distracted driving bill that would keep illegal immigrants from getting a driver\u2019s license.<\/strong>“<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The last sentence is not accurate and will serve to further confuse lawmakers who should already understand this issue. *UPDATE: Here (below) is the copy that was inserted as a correction, but no note was made of the error or the correction. And it is still not accurate.<\/p>\n

State Sen. Josh McKoon, R-Columbus, a candidate for secretary of state, tried the same tactic, but didn\u2019t get the same kind of pushback.<\/p>\n

Prabhu reports that McKoon introduced and then withdrew an amendment that would have made it harder for teens to get a court waiver to avoid having to notify their parents about an abortion.<\/p>\n

And he unsuccessfully sought an amendment during the debate of the distracted driving bill that would have required driver\u2019s licenses given to illegal immigrants with a protected status — i.e.<\/a> DACA kids — to be distinguishable from licenses for other residents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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  The AJC, in it’s “Politically Georgia” email report (and on Jim Galloway’s blog and Twitter page) gets it wrong on an amendment offered by Senator Josh McKoon (Amendment #6) to HB 673. The amendment said DDS could not issue drivers licenses and ID cards to illegal aliens that are REAL ID Act compliant, which […]<\/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\/11739"}],"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=11739"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11799,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11739\/revisions\/11799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}