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May 4, 2018 Radio Commentary

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“Blue-Tooth” Okay! Hands Free to Drive!

Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, May 4, 2018 – By Sue Ella Deadwyler

On May 2nd Governor Deal traveled to Statesboro to sign H.B. 673, The Hands-Free Georgia Act, which becomes law July 1st. Parents of the five nursing students killed in a 2015 crash on I-16 were among attendees of the ceremony at the Statesboro-Bulloch County Airport at 2 p.m. Wednesday, when Georgia became the 16th state to enact a hands-free driving law. States with similar laws reported a 16 percent decrease in traffic fatalities within two years, and further decreases beyond that.

Georgia’s current ban on texting, emailing and internet browsing while driving remains intact, but has been expanded. The new law makes it illegal for drivers of motor vehicles to hold or physically support a mobile phone or other device such as an iPad, iPod, or Kindle while driving. Also, drivers cannot write, send or read a text-message, an instant message, email or internet data or view videos while operating a motor vehicle.

Drivers of motor vehicles may communicate by phone on a hands-free basis and may touch their phone for dialing, receiving or ending a call as long as the individual is not holding or supporting the phone. Drivers may use a phone for GPS directions and voice-to-text, a speakerphone, Bluetooth, earpiece, headphone, smart watch, or other hands-free devices. Continue reading →

A Guide to the Georgia General Primary/Nonpartisan Election – May 22, 2018

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There will be three types of ballots:
a. Republican and Nonpartisan Primary Ballot.
b. Democratic and Nonpartisan Primary Ballot.
c. Nonpartisan Primary Ballot – does not contain Gubernatorial, U.S. Congress or State Legislative candidates.

Asking for a Republican or Democratic ballot does not indicate you are a card-carrying member of either party. The Republican and Democratic ballots both contain the Nonpartisan candidates. The type of ballot you select May 22nd or earlier if you advanced vote will determine the type of ballot you must use in the event of a runoff on July 24th. For example, if you use a Democratic ballot on May 22nd then you cannot use a Republican ballot to vote in the Republican runoff, if there is one. If you select a Nonpartisan ballot on May 22nd or did not vote on May 22nd then you are free to vote in the runoff and select Republican or Democratic ballot.

Click here to view Georgia Insight’s list of candidates.  It is worth the read!

April 27, 2018 Radio Commentary

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Couldn’t Get Rid of “Safe Spaces”

If the original version of S.B. 339 had passed, students could no longer have infringed upon other students’ freedom of speech. Students who continued to limit the freedom of speech of others would have been warned the first time; then suspended or expelled the second time. Since that was deleted before S.B. 339 passed, safe spaces and unconstitutional gag orders will continue. The term “gag order” is accurate, since safe space areas in colleges and universities squelch opinions the politically correct crowd finds offensive or contrary to its agenda.

S.B. 339 was cut in half. The prohibition of safe spaces was deleted and prohibition against peer-on-peer harassment in safe spaces was deleted, also. The bill’s focus became freedom of speech protection for visiting speakers and students in assembly. Therefore, S.B. 339 requires the board of regents to write a system-wide freedom-of-speech policy that protects the press and invited speakers and assures students and faculty the right to assemble spontaneously in constitutional activities that do not interfere with scheduled events, campus activities or invited speakers who might be heckled, otherwise. Meaning, the freedom of speech will be protected in assemblies but not in safe spaces. Assemblies and safe spaces are two different issues. Continue reading →

April 20, 2018 Radio Commentary

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Georgia’s NOT “Like Nazi Germany!”

Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, April 20, 2018 – By Sue Ella Deadwyler

They were discussing S.B. 452 when the Republican vice-chairman of the House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee said, “This isn’t Nazi Germany – we are not asking people to carry their papers around on them at all times.”

He’s right, this is not Nazi Germany, but he was wrong to change the word “shall” in S.B. 452 to “may,” because shall is a requirement; may is permissive, and requires nothing. After gutting shall from the bill, the vice-chairman explained it this way, “In section one we did change a ‘shall’ back to a ‘may.’ There were some concerns within the business community with international companies. A CEO or somebody might be here with a foreign driver’s license and if they were pulled over for some reason and if they didn’t have their visa on them … we want to allow for the police officer to maintain some discretion there.”

S.B. 452 is the Ensuring Necessary Deportations Act that would have allowed peace officers to investigate and learn the immigration status of criminal suspects. It, also, required sentencing courts to determine the defendant’s legal status and send the result to the Department of Homeland Security. It would have required local law enforcement to comply with federal law and cooperate with ICE by detaining, arresting and transporting the criminal. Continue reading →