{"id":5691,"date":"2015-12-16T12:33:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T17:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=5691"},"modified":"2015-12-16T12:39:54","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T17:39:54","slug":"toward-constitutional-official-english-in-the-peach-state-ask-your-state-senators-do-they-plan-on-co-sponsoring-sr-675","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/16\/toward-constitutional-official-english-in-the-peach-state-ask-your-state-senators-do-they-plan-on-co-sponsoring-sr-675\/","title":{"rendered":"Toward constitutional official English in the Peach State – Ask your state senators: Do they plan on co-sponsoring SR 675 ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toward official English in the Peach State<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ask your state senator: Does he plan on co-sponsoring SR 675 ?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Readers should be asking their state Senators if they plan on co-sponsoring Senator Josh McKoon\u2019s legislation aimed at allowing We The People to vote on amending the state constitution to make English the official language of government in the Peach State.<\/p>\n

McKoon has filed his legislation, SR 675, to allow voters the opportunity to ratify an amendment to the state constitution making English the official language of government. Hooray Senator McKoon!<\/p>\n

A Rosetta Stone poll from last week shows what most of us already know: A huge majority of us ( 76%<\/strong> ) favor English as our constitutional official language. See the poll question here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

McKoon\u2019s press release<\/a> is pretty self-explanatory. We hope you will read it.<\/p>\n

Below, we post the proposed November, 2016 ballot question in SR 675.<\/p>\n

\u201cShall the Constitution of Georgia be amended so as to provide that English is the official language of the State of Georgia?”
\n“( ) YES
\n( ) NO
\nAll persons desiring to vote in favor of ratifying the proposed amendment shall vote “Yes.”
\nAll persons desiring to vote against ratifying the proposed amendment shall vote “No.”<\/p>\n

If such amendment shall be ratified as provided in said Paragraph of the Constitution, it shall become a part of the Constitution of this state.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What must happen before voters see this ballot question when they vote for president in November? Here\u2019s what: The Republican-controlled General Assembly must pass SR 675 by a two thirds majority in each chamber\u2013 which the Republican state Senate already has in place. Translation: The Georgia Senate has enough Republicans to pass this without any Democrat votes.<\/p>\n

On the state House side, of 180 members, currently 118 members are Republicans, 61 are Democrats and there is one Independent with one seat vacant pending a special election in District 58. By my math, the needed two-thirds majority is 120 votes to pass SR 375 in the Republican controlled House\u2026in an election year.<\/p>\n

Before the anti-English lobby crazies<\/a> get cranked up, let\u2019s make it clear that it\u2019s not \u201cEnglish only.\u201d<\/a> It\u2019s English as official<\/em>, amigos.<\/p>\n

We can still say \u201cVilla Rica\u201d \u201carrivederchi\u201d and \u201coy vey!\u201d<\/p>\n

But ratification by the voters would result in ending the loony practice of giving our written drivers license test in eleven languages.<\/p>\n

Si?<\/em><\/p>\n

dak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toward official English in the Peach State Ask your state senator: Does he plan on co-sponsoring SR 675 ? Readers should be asking their state Senators if they plan on co-sponsoring Senator Josh McKoon\u2019s legislation aimed at allowing We The People to vote on amending the state constitution to make English the official language of […]<\/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\/5691"}],"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=5691"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5701,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691\/revisions\/5701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}