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January 8, 2016 Radio Commentary

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2016 Session Convenes Next Monday

Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, January 8, 2016 – By Sue Ella Deadwyler

Next Monday our senators and representatives report to work at 10:00 o’clock to begin this year’s 40-day legislative session. Among the legislators will be eight new representatives and two new senators, who won special elections since last session.

If I were a new legislator, I would be astonished to learn that 786 bills and resolutions are still alive from last year’s session and I would be even more astonished to know how critically important some of those bills are.

For example: If I were a new representative, I might ask Representative Ron Stephens why he waited until the last week of last session to introduce two highly controversial bills. One is H.R. 807 that would change the State Constitution to authorize the building and operation of six resort casinos in Georgia. The other is his 127-page H.B. 677 that would legalize and regulate those six resort casinos. Then, I would ask him why he thinks Georgia needs an industry that charges a half-million-dollars to simply apply for a license. If the application is accepted, the license will cost the applicant $25,000,000 or $10,000,000 depending on where the casino will be located. Even if the application is turned down, the half-million-dollars won’t be refunded. Continue reading →

June 2015 Newsletter

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Step-by-Step Decay, and Nobody Stopped It

Court Decisions. During serious discussions, 1963 is often cited as the beginning of cultural decay in the U.S. However, in 1962 the U.S. Supreme Court’s Engle v. Vitale decision had already prohibited officially-sponsored prayer in public schools. The infamous 1963 case, Murray v. Curlett filed by atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair, expanded the attack on Christianity by proclaiming Bible reading to be unconstitutional in public schools. The resulting void was filled by atheistic humanism that now permeates public schools. And nobody stopped it!

National Education Association (NEA) is not a conservative influence on students. The NEA openly defies and denies family values and standards by affirming, supporting, and promoting behavior modification and situation ethics, by agitating for compulsory education from very early childhood and unrestricted sex education (now morphing into transgender, gender ID and alternate lifestyles). NEA endorses decriminalization of marijuana, secular humanism, national health insurance, teacher unions and strikes, federal control over education, population control, importation of foreign nationals, and a global society. And nobody is stopping it!

NEA openly opposes local control and local financing of public schools, parental supervision of textbooks, tuition tax credits, public initiative legislation, and favors world government over U.S. sovereignty. For the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the NEA created a Bicentennial Committee and Bicentennial Ideabook, with a Foreword that includes this statement: “…teachers are the major resource through which to effect (sic) a world community based on the principles of peace and justice.”

For the same event, the NEA fashioned its own Declaration of Interdependence in 1975, while endorsing Dr. Henry Steele Commanger’s identically named Declaration of Interdependence published by the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia. And nobody stopped it!

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Content includes topics on Decay, Worker Bees, Marijuana,  and Resettlement

March 1, 2015 Newsletter

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Marijuana: House Passes H.B. 1 Authorizing
Use of Schedule I Narcotic

Schedule I Narcotics have [a] “no currently accepted medical use in the United States, [b] a lack of accepted safety for use under medical supervision and [c] a high potential for abuse. Examples of Schedule I Narcotics: heroin, LSD, marijuana, peyote, methaqualone and 3, 4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (Ecstasy).”
– Drug Enforcement Administration, Office of Diversion Control

H.B. 1, pre-filed November 17th by Representative Allen Peake (R), was debated on February 23rd in Representative Rich Golick’s Non Civil Judiciary committee that amended it twice before voting to give it a “do pass” recommendation. The House passed it 158-2 on February 25th, and sent it to the Senate. That vote is available online as House Vote #80.

The committee refused to close a major loophole that allows card-holders to possess 20 ounces of marijuana oil with no oversight by the Drug Enforcement Administration. So, registered card-holders would not be under DEA jurisdiction for possessing or using a Schedule I drug.

A House floor amendment to H.B. 1 added sickle cell to conditions1 that qualify patients for treatment with marijuana oil. If this passes, within the Department of Public Health would be established a Low THC Oil Patient Registry for patients and caregivers deemed eligible for a card authorizing the use of low THC oil. Since federal law prohibits the prescribing of marijuana, physicians would not prescribe, but would “certify” patients for treatment. It is unclear (a) who would dispense the oil, or (b) how it would be secured, or (c) regulated.

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February 1, 2015 Newsletter

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Driver’s Licenses, Illegal Aliens & a Gray Fox

S.B. 6 Georgia Road Safety and Driver’s License Integrity Act by Senator Josh McKoon (R), pre-filed but officially introduced January 28, 2015, is an extremely important bill that would have positive effects on Georgia as follows:
(a) Federal immigration law could not be the basis for issuing driver’s licenses to illegal aliens.
(b) Eligibility for a driver’s license could not be based on approved deferred action status.
(c) Driver’s licenses or ID cards obtained by illegal aliens would not be proof of lawful status. (d) Illegal aliens could not qualify for welfare benefits under the SAVE program.
(e) Drivers caught driving without a valid license could have their vehicle impounded.
(f) On or after July 1, 2015, the Department of Driver Services would participate in Homeland Security’s Records and Information E-Verify initiative.

S.B. 6 cosignatories are the author, Senator McKoon, 29th; Crane, 28th; Gooch 51st; Heath 31st; Ginn, 47th; Ligon, Jr., 3rd; Williams, 27th; Kirk, 13th; Thompson, 14th; Harbin, 16th; and Martin, 9th. If your senator is not listed here, please ask him to cosign and support S.B. 6.

ACTION – Support. Contact Public Safety Senators Harper, Ch., 404 463-5263; Albers, 463-8055; Dugan, 656-7454; H. Jones*, 463-3942; Seay*, 656-5095; Watson, 656-7880; and M. Williams, 656-7127. (* indicate Democrat.)

S.B. 44 “Citizenship Privileges for Illegal Aliens” by Senator Orrock (D) reverses current law prohibiting in-state tuition for noncitizen students who are not legally in Georgia and have no evidence that gives them in-state classification. The following is the amendment her bill would insert twice in Code Section 20-3-66 paragraph (d) to give in-state tuition to illegals:
“Except for noncitizen students who have received a grant of deferred action for childhood arrivals from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security students shall not be classified as in-state for tuition…”[Her amendment (underlined above) raises deferred action to citizenship status for illegal aliens.]

Further, S.B. 44 reverses technical college tuition regulations in order to give noncitizens the same privileges as citizens. She would negate current policies with the following amendment: “provided, however, that such rules and regulations may extend the same consideration that is given to citizens of the U.S. to noncitizens who have received a grant of deferred action for childhood arrivals from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in determining whether such noncitizens qualify for in-state classification of tuition fees.”

ACTION – Oppose. Contact Higher Education Senators Millar, Ch. 404 463-2260; Martin, 656-3933; B. Jones, 656-0082; Beach, 463-1378; L. Jackson*, 463-5261; McKoon, 463-3931; Orrock*, 463-8054; B. Thompson, 656-0065; and M. Williams, 656-7127. (* denotes Democrat)

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