Yea right.

Former Clayton County Officer Matthew Whitton has filed an appeal of his August termination.

Chief Jeff Turner says he fired Whitton because the officer ruined his credibility when he and Rick Dyer sought media attention, saying they found the body of the legendary man-ape.

“He’s been an embarrassment. This is basically a disgrace to be in law enforcement. You must have integrity. He has none,” said Turner when he fired Whitton.

At the same time federal courts in Ohio are ordering Ohio’s Secretary of State to verify the registrations of newly registered voters in Ohio, leftwing activists in Georgia are suing Georgia’s Secretary of State, Karen Handel, to stop her verifying records.

As Maggie Thurber notes about the Ohio situation:

The ruling from U.S. District Court Judge George C. Smith called the identification breakdown “a serious problem” and ordered Brunner to immediately comply with federal requirements to match voter registration data with the information in the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles and Social Security Administration databases. The court accused Brunner of failing to provide county election administrators with “an effective way to access and review mismatches.” She immediately appealed the ruling.

Notwithstanding federal law, the ACLU, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the New York-Based Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Atlanta attorney Brian Spears have found a guy in Georgia to use as a plaintiff to enable wholescale voter fraud in Georgia.

The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Atlanta, seeks to halt the state’s attempts to verify the identities and citizenship of registered voters so close to the Nov. 4 election. Attorneys for the plaintiff, Jose Morales, also want the suit to become a class action.

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Here’s a pdf of the complaint (posted by Buzz)

From the tip line:

Tom Price is in town to do some campaigning for his election. He received a jury duty notice. Being a conservative Republican congressman, he always gets struck from the pool. After he said that he needed to be excused to campaign, neither side challenged him. He is now on a murder jury and doesn’t know how long the trial will take.

[UPDATE by Erick:] I have confirmed with parties present at jury selection that Price did not say he needed to campaign.

There this story in the AJC about the Senate debate that says it was a rowdy affair, but do we have eyewitness accounts?

Finally, Erick has something new to listen to in the mornings.

Former Macon City Council President Anita Ponder is teaming up with a radio partner for a morning talk show that’s scheduled to begin Monday morning.

It’s part of big changes at WIBB-AM, 1280 on the dial, in what Clear Channel is billing as the Macon market’s first ever “black talk” radio station.

Todd Haygood, Clear Channel’s director of urban programming, will join Ponder on the show from 6-9 a.m. They will discuss “the issues and news of the day and how they will affect the African-American community in Macon,” according to a release from Bill Clark, a Clear Channel vice president and market manager.

“The introduction of this programming is historic,” Clark said.

“The U.S. Department of Justice is questioning some 2 million requests it says were made by Georgia officials since last fall to check the Social Security numbers of newly registered voters, far more than any other state,” according to an AP report filed earlier today.

A spokesman for Karen Handel “said she is consulting with the state attorney general’s office on how to proceed,” adding that:

officials are trying to determine how the Social Security Administration arrived at the 2 million figure. That’s far more than the number of new voters who registered in Georgia during the same period, he said. Some 406,000 new voters have registered in 2008.

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Troy Windham is not only intrepid … he’s inspiring. Listen to him here as he channels House minority leader John Boehner, explaining why if you’re not man enough to make the tough choices, you shouldn’t be in Congress. This isn’t the speech you heard for Goddard in Warner Robins yesterday. Seems Boehner knew that would be a little … awkward for Rick. Then again, Rick put Boehner in a pretty awkward spot by attacking the rescue plan, which may be why Boehner backed off the “guarantee” that Rick said he had that he would be on the Armed Services Committee. Now Boehner says he’ll “try”. Ouch. You can read about THAT in Travis Fain’s blog.

Boehner’s speech did make me think that they sure must have some funny ways of doing things in Ohio, where he’s from. Who exactly eats mud sandwiches? Watch the re-enactment here.

Consider this an end of the (financial) world open thread.

I watched the first episode of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta.” I still feel icky. I’m also horrified to know most of these women live just a few miles from my house.

Is found in Concourse A at the Atlanta airport this morning. The biscuit was hard as a rock and I’m not sure the chicken was quite done. Likewise the tater tots looked like it had snowed on them there was so much salt.

Wow. Usually they’re really good.

There is conflicting information about what the NRA is going to do in this Presidential election. NRA Chief Wayne LaPierre will hold a press conference today and some speculate he’ll make an endorsement. Our own Jason Pye (who works for Barr) wrote this on the former Georgia Congressman’s website:

Given the fact that Wayne LaPierre and Chris Cox have exposed John McCain as an anti-gun sympathizer, we here at Bob Barr 2008 fully expect that the NRA will announce their support for Bob Barr tomorrow and run ads against both Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama.

However, another Georgian (currently exiled in DC) Robert Stacey McCain reports anger in the Barr camp at a possible NRA endorsement of McCain:

Sources with the campaign of Libertarian Party presidential candidate Bob Barr are livid at reports that National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre will endorse Republican John McCain today.

UPDATE: The NRA endorsed McCain.

Refreshing your recollection, we were trying to determine if Rick Goddard could get his cell phone to work in Hawkinsville.  You see, Gen. Goddard had trouble returning calls and emails for three days, during which time he was trying to figure out whether he was for or against the bailout.  We now know after polling the issue, General spine is against the bailout.

Now, the intrepid Troy Windham as gone to Warner Robins, and found the most amazing thing — the internet.  Since Gen. Goddard’s former position had something to do with logisitics, you would think finding a cell phone or the internets shouldn’t be a problem.  If anyone sees Gen. Goddard, tell him the internet is here.

Congrats Saxby, things are looking up. The King of the Kos Kids has urged them to throw their scrawny muscles behind Jim Martin. (Hat Tip: Fresh Loaf)

Kos delivers a fact filled stemwinder to the assembled “progressive” multitudes:

Chambliss defeated Vietnam hero Cleland by accusing him of being weak on national security and morphing his face into that of Osama bin Laden in a television ad.

Uh, wrongo Markos. The ad in question didn’t morph Osama into Cleland (see for yourself). Chambliss defeated Cleland because Max was an out of step liberal (not unlike Jim Martin).

Oh, and Rasmussen says Saxby leads by 7 points.

Tax revenues were up in September.

Sales tax revenue picked up in September, helping boost Georgia’s overall tax revenue for the month by 4.5 percent.

The Georgia Department of Revenue reported the state’s take from various taxes hit $1.63 billion in September and included $445.5 million in sales tax revenue (up 10.6 percent), $161.1 million in corporate income tax revenue (up 0.6 percent), $874.5 million in individual income tax revenue (up 3.9 percent) and $3.1 million in property tax revenue (down 15.2 percent).

What’s up with this?

According to [Jeremy] Tanner, last Tuesday, Chambers herself came to his residence, took pictures of his house and yard, knocked on his door, and told him “you are in serious trouble.”

….The resident said Chambers also told him that it was “a very serious offense to accuse an elected official of bribery.”

Tanner said he told Chambers to leave the property, and closed the door, after which he said that the state representative continued to knock and say,”Come on out and talk to me, Jeremy.”