{"id":6632,"date":"2016-04-08T11:01:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T16:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=6632"},"modified":"2016-04-11T16:58:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T21:58:46","slug":"d-a-king-in-the-columbus-ledger-enquirer-letter-to-the-editor-expanding-reality-under-the-gold-dome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/08\/d-a-king-in-the-columbus-ledger-enquirer-letter-to-the-editor-expanding-reality-under-the-gold-dome\/","title":{"rendered":"D.A. King in the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer: Letter to the editor expanding reality under the Gold Dome"},"content":{"rendered":"

Columbus Ledger-Enquirer<\/em><\/p>\n

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR<\/strong>
\nAPRIL 7, 2016<\/p>\n

McKoon not villain here<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite the unforgettable assertion that revenge-based abuse of power on funding legislation is merely “part of the political game<\/a>,” most Georgians reject the concept that we should blame Senator Josh McKoon for the underhanded CSU financing snub from Governor Nathan Deal and Speaker David Ralston<\/p>\n

McKoon serves as the benchmark of honest, hard-working conservatism in the state Capitol and if he is to be the focus of seemingly endless and undeserved attacks, it should also be recognized that the retaliation from Ralston\/Deal for McKoon\u2019s courage in speaking truth to power extends much further than financing CSU and the Infantry Museum.<\/p>\n

McKoon was the only legislator in the entire state willing to carry legislation (SB6) aimed at ending the Deal administration\u2019s policy of giving the same driver\u2019s license to illegal aliens issued to foreign diplomats and Mercedes-Benz executives.<\/a><\/p>\n

McKoon also sponsored legislation (SR675) that would have allowed all Georgia voters to decide on a ballot question in November asking if the state constitution should be amended to make English the official language of government in Georgia \u2014 and if we should constitutionally codify commonsense protections for non-English speakers in official actions. Pretty radical stuff, eh?<\/p>\n

Both bills passed the senate with 2\/3rds majorities and had the votes to pass the House. Republican Speaker David Ralston used his underbosses in the House committee system <\/a>to kill any chance for a floor vote because of his personal animosity for McKoon. This is not \u201cgrown-up\u201d government.<\/p>\n

The Ledger-Enquirer has used extensive quotes <\/a>from former Nathan Deal henchman Brian Robinson regarding McKoon and Deal. For many Capitol insiders \u2014 including this one \u2014 Robinson\u2019s sanctimonious remark that Deal \u201cdoes not hold grudges\u201d is viewed with a similar level of amusement that would be given an assurance from Valerie Jarrett that Obama is not a Saul Alinsky Marxist radical.<\/p>\n

D.A. KING, MARIETTA<\/p>\n

Read more here: http:\/\/www.ledger-enquirer.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/article70515797.html#storylink=cpy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Columbus Ledger-Enquirer LETTERS TO THE EDITOR APRIL 7, 2016 McKoon not villain here Despite the unforgettable assertion that revenge-based abuse of power on funding legislation is merely “part of the political game,” most Georgians reject the concept that we should blame Senator Josh McKoon for the underhanded CSU financing snub from Governor Nathan Deal and […]<\/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\/6632"}],"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=6632"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6647,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6632\/revisions\/6647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}