{"id":13088,"date":"2018-11-20T00:27:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=13088"},"modified":"2018-11-30T13:45:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T18:45:41","slug":"13088","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/20\/13088\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia&#8217;s &#8220;use it or lose it&#8221; voter roll law? The Democrats did it"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12641\" style=\"width: 942px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/abrams.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12641\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/abrams.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"932\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/abrams.jpg 932w, https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/abrams-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/abrams-768x524.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 932px) 100vw, 932px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12641\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Tea Party<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here is a &#8216;take-away&#8217; on the liberal media&#8217;s incomplete\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wabe.org\/6-takeaways-from-georgias-use-it-or-lose-it-voter-purge-investigation\/\">coverage<\/a> of Georgia Governor&#8217;s race: The Dems did the &#8220;use it or lose it&#8221; law and former Secretary of State Brian Kemp is only &#8216;guilty&#8217; of following that law.<\/p>\n<p>It was the 1997 Georgia Democrats who introduced, sponsored and passed the now infamous and partially reported \u201cuse it or lose it\u201d voter \u2018purge\u2019 law that the liberal media, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/the-editors\/stacey-abrams-non-concession-speech-in-georgia-was-contemptible\">loser Stacey Abrams<\/a> and the 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.letamericavote.org\/news\/blog\/2018\/georgias-use-it-or-lose-it-voter-purge-forced-more-than-850000-eligible-voters-off-the-rolls\/\">Democrats are using<\/a> to vilify Governor-Elect Brian Kemp. The exception on sponsors was Republican <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.ga.gov\/Legislation\/Archives\/19992000\/house\/gash045.htm\">Robert Irvin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was Democrat Governor Zell Miller who signed the legislation, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.ga.gov\/Legislation\/Archives\/19971998\/leg\/fulltext\/hb889.htm\">HB 889<\/a>, into law.<\/p>\n<p>It was introduced by Chatham County Democrat Rep Sonny Dixon and was cosponsored by Reps (the late) <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Lee_(Georgia_politician)\">William Lee<\/a> (D),<a href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.ga.gov\/Legislation\/Archives\/19992000\/house\/gash141.htm\"> Larry Walker<\/a> (D), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.ga.gov\/Legislation\/Archives\/19992000\/house\/gash137.htm\">Jimmy Skipper<\/a> (D), Robert Irvin (R), and Greg K. Hecht (D).<\/p>\n<p>Sonny Dixon won a Best Anchor Emmy Award for his work in broadcasting in Savannah and has a major road intersection <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sonny_Dixon\">named in his honor.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Attorney and writer Larry Walker has served on the Board of Regents and on the state\u2019s Georgia Department of Transportation Board.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Hecht went on to the state senate and was the Democrat\u2019s 2014 c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.georgiademocrat.org\/2014\/05\/meet-greg-hecht-georgia-dems-candidate-for-attorney-general\/\">andidate for Attorney General.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brian Kemp wasn\u2019t in the Georgia legislature in 1997 when the Dems passed the bill they hate so vocally now that Comrade Abrams has finally admitted defeat.<\/p>\n<p>We haven\u2019t seen this in any liberal media outlets \u2013 but will do a complete search for a credible and compelling Georgia news article that we may have missed. But, maybe they are hiding it.<\/p>\n<p>*Hat tip to real-conservative Georgia state Senator <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshMcKoon\/status\/1064867244545581056\">Josh McKoon<\/a> for the expert detective work on the Georgia General Assembly\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>dak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a &#8216;take-away&#8217; on the liberal media&#8217;s incomplete\u00a0coverage of Georgia Governor&#8217;s race: The Dems did the &#8220;use it or lose it&#8221; law and former Secretary of State Brian Kemp is only &#8216;guilty&#8217; of following that law. It was the 1997 Georgia Democrats who introduced, sponsored and passed the now infamous and partially reported \u201cuse [&hellip;]<\/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\/13088"}],"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=13088"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13105,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13088\/revisions\/13105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}