{"id":4353,"date":"2012-01-06T01:29:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T06:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=4353"},"modified":"2012-01-06T02:56:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T07:56:22","slug":"da-king-on-the-mdj-blog-repost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/06\/da-king-on-the-mdj-blog-repost\/","title":{"rendered":"D.A. King on the MDJ blog – repost: GALEO\u2019s Angry Jerry Gonzalez named one of \u201c100 Most Influential Georgians\u201d and other amazing tidbits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Repost from the Marietta Daily Journal <\/em>blog<\/p>\n

GALEO\u2019s Jerry Gonzalez named one of \u201c100 Most Influential Georgians\u201d and other amazing tidbits<\/strong><\/p>\n

by D.A. King<\/p>\n

Blogging While D.A. King<\/strong><\/p>\n

January 04, 2012 Jerry Gonzalez<\/a>, Executive Director of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO<\/a>) has been named one of \u201c100 Most Influential Georgians\u201d by Georgia Trend magazine in its January edition. Again.<\/p>\n

No, really.<\/p>\n

To get a handle on Gonzalez\u2019s \u201cinfluence\u201d and style, it should be pointed out that pro-enforcement denizens of the Georgia Capitol are forever grateful to \u201cAngry Jerry\u201d for his relentless race-baiting on the crime of illegal immigration, his well-known fuming, disrespectful rants during testimony in Gold Dome committees against Georgia\u2019s illegal immigration enforcement bills over the years and his willingness to personify the radical left on the issue in general.<\/p>\n

He served as an ideal educational example for legislators unfamiliar with the illegal alien lobby.<\/p>\n

And there is this little gem: \u201cInfluential\u201d Gonzalez was recently removed from a Rome, Georgia panel discussion on the subject of Georgia\u2019s recent illegal immigration law, HB 87, hiring legal labor and use of E-Verify because the organization he heads and members of the GALEO Board of Directors are part of a pending ACLU lawsuit <\/a>seeking to halt enforcement of parts of the law. Apparently the organizers saw a conflict.<\/p>\n

Determined to get the anti-enforcement side injected into the event, Gonzalez drove from Atlanta to the Rome event anyway and was soon ejected and removed by local police from the property for screaming at a member of the panel, Georgia state Representative Katie Dempsey. The diminutive and well-liked Dempsey was a co-sponsor of HB 87 and a staunch supporter of E-Verify.<\/p>\n

The Rome News Tribune covered the event and reported on Gonzalez\u2019s antics HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n

Part of the explanation from glossy Georgia Trend on how \u201cinfluence\u201d is defined:<\/p>\n

\u201c..Individuals on the list – some who are very much in the public eye and some who choose to work behind the scenes – are selected for the power and influence they wield. These are the people who affect the lives and livelihood of all Georgians in one way or another\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Indeed.<\/p>\n

You can read the GALEO press release on the Georgia Trend award HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n

Also notable in the same issue of the magazine: An essay from author and periodic MDJ guest columnist Phil Kent correcting some slips on HB 87 by GT editors in a previous edition (HERE<\/a>) .<\/p>\n

Just so you\u2019ll know.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read more:<\/a> The Marietta Daily Journal – GALEO\u2019s Jerry Gonzalez named one of \u201c100 Most Influential Georgians\u201d and other amazing tidbits <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Repost from the Marietta Daily Journal blog GALEO\u2019s Jerry Gonzalez named one of \u201c100 Most Influential Georgians\u201d and other amazing tidbits by D.A. King Blogging While D.A. King January 04, 2012 Jerry Gonzalez, Executive Director of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO) has been named one of \u201c100 Most Influential Georgians\u201d by Georgia […]<\/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\/4353"}],"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=4353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}