{"id":4278,"date":"2011-08-05T09:46:54","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T14:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=4278"},"modified":"2011-08-05T09:46:54","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T14:46:54","slug":"peaches-and-prunes-ga-state-rep-matt-ramsey-in-insider-advantage-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/05\/peaches-and-prunes-ga-state-rep-matt-ramsey-in-insider-advantage-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Peaches and Prunes &#8211; Ga. State Rep. Matt Ramsey in Insider Advantage Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insideradvantagegeorgia.com\/\">Insider Advantage Georgia<\/a><\/em> is a subscription Website &#8211; the below is reposted with permission.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peaches and Prunes<\/strong><br \/>\nGary Reese<br \/>\nEditor<\/p>\n<p>August 05 2011<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Peaches and Prunes is a quick review of those who were the formidable political haymakers in Georgia politics over the past week. Peaches go out to those whose words or actions brought credit to themselves. Prunes go out to those who may have misstepped. <\/p>\n<p>  &#8230;Speculation runs rampant about the White House\u2019s apparent reluctance to challenge Georgia\u2019s \u201cHouse Bill 87,\u201d the new illegal immigration enforcement law. Some say the feds are suing Alabama and not Georgia because our state, unlike our neighbor to the west, is \u201cin play\u201d for Obama\u2019s reelection and his team doesn\u2019t want to stir up Georgia voters. <\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t buy it. Georgians opposed to Obama already are motivated to vote against him. If the president has any hope of bagging Georgia\u2019s electoral votes in 2012, he must ignite passion in his own base before he can even think about wooing independent voters. That base prominently includes Latinos. So why wouldn\u2019t he steam full ahead with a high-profile suit? It\u2019s not like Georgians don\u2019t know of the Obama administration\u2019s opposition to states taking on immigration enforcement themselves. <\/p>\n<p>Likely the absence so far of legal action against Georgia owes more to State Rep. Matt Ramsey (R-Peachtree City). In piecing together HB 87, Ramsey reportedly wrote repeated revisions of the legislation. In part that was to make the bill as failsafe as possible against just the kind of federal lawsuit that is now targeting Alabama. Be you for or against more stringent immigration laws, you have to credit Ramsey\u2019s thoroughness. \u2026 A Peach. &#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insider Advantage Georgia is a subscription Website &#8211; the below is reposted with permission. Peaches and Prunes Gary Reese Editor August 05 2011 Peaches and Prunes is a quick review of those who were the formidable political haymakers in Georgia politics over the past week. Peaches go out to those whose words or actions brought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278"}],"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=4278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}