On Wednesday, February 22, the Georgia Senate Ethics Committee will hear SB 377, in Room 310 of the Legislative Office Building. The hearing is at 2 p.m. This is the bill to require circulators to sign (under penalty of perjury) that everyone who signed the petition showed the circulator government photo-ID before signing.
There are many barriers to petitioning that have been dreamed up over the last 120 years, but this is a new one. The Senate Ethics Committee is a very large committee. It has 13 Senators, which is almost one-fourth of the Georgia Senate. If you live anywhere near Atlanta, please try to show up and oppose this bill. Thanks to Garland Favorito for this news. The Committee only hears one other bill, a non-controversial bill that has already passed the House unanimously, so the hearing should not last long and should not be boring.
The EVIL gerrymander tyrants (i.e. the OLIGARCHY) versus the People ??? Duh.
Where is Gen. Sherman II — with another Union Army to liberate GA again from its TYRANTS ???
“Ethics Committee”?! Sounds like a misnomer to me.
Why is it that states in the South continually makes themselves look like jackasses? I’m from the South. Stop it Georgia!
Let’s make this easy. No reason for individual flesh-bearing persons to take time out of their busy day to show up. All that’s needed here is one socially conscious corporate “person” to set up a Super PAC, load it up with a lot of monney, and advocate for Georgia Senate candidates who will oppose this bill.
Whaddya think Richard – a corporate “person” from Big Oil? Big Pharma? Surely one of them will want to spend some of their free speech to promote freedom of speech for us little human persons.
So…how much money do you think this corporate “person” would contribute?
A hundred bucks?
Ten bucks?
A lottery ticket?
What if a signer has false I.D. shown to the circulator ???
Is the circulator supposed to be a cop — able to detect any such false I.D. ???