Imagine a high school student telling the United States Department of Justice [DOJ] to “Go F— Yourselves!”
It is happening. A high school graduate has issued a public statement declaring that the “DOJ has effectively directed the State of Georgia not to comply with or enforce federal law.”
WOW! I bet the Constitutional lawyers at the DOJ are shaking in fear. KNOT!
So who is this arrogant high school graduate and how did they start a fight with the DOJ?
Well, it could be our Lt. Gov., Lowell Stacy “Casey” Cagle. His highest achievement in formal education is a high school diploma. He denies it. He claims he attended Gainesville College and Georgia Southern. He has even claimed to be a graduate of both institutions. With his approval, GB&T issued a press release clearly stating “K.C.’s” qualifications for sitting at the grown up table. AKA Board of Directors. The false information has never been corrected by the Bank or K.C.
His resume’ is very inaccurate. More on that another time.
No, our Legal Scholar with the high school diploma is Karen Handel. She broke federal law by changing voter registration methods without complying with the 1964 Voting Rights Act. She’s been trying to cover her exposed backsides ever since.
As I’ve pointed out in other entries, Handel broke the law and didn’t have the legal right, per the DOJ, to usurp the county voter registration process. A process clearly spelled out in the Georgia Constitution.
If I’m wrong about the Constitutional power of counties to be the final certification of legitimate voter registration, I’m sure Karen Handel et al, can cite the Constitutional Clause to me.
In writing. Hopefully with a press release posted on the front page of the Georgia Secretary of State website. If that’s not too hard for a high school graduate to do.
October 21, 2009 at 11:13 am
Interesting how liberals put so much validation in a receipt.
October 21, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Clarify, please?
Wasn’t it the GOP who said Obama didn’t have the qualifications for President? Based on a hunch? Based on the opinions of self proclaimed ‘experts?’
So, clarify why ex-President Bush and both parties spend so much money on a high school diploma then call it nothing but a receipt.
October 21, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Does not grok.
A. I’m not nor have I ever been a member of the GOP.
B. The Republicans never attacked Obama on his level of education therefore your analogy does not hold.
October 21, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Grift,
I don’t see where I accused you of being a GOP idiot.
A. I am a registered GOP voter.
B. You haven’t clarified anything about your first post.
So, clarify why ex-President Bush and both parties spend so much money on a high school diploma then you call it nothing but a receipt.
October 21, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Wait. Am I talking to the same person?
Anyway, actually I was calling a college degree a “receipt”.
My point is that if you choose this tactic with Cagle and Handel, they will likely roll out the same old line of liberals being “elitist” and “arrogant. And this time they’d be right. Combine that with the fact that you will basically insult every voter who has bootstrapped their way to success without a “receipt” and I think you have a very stupid strategy.
October 21, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Grift,
Are you talking to the same person or a sane person? Let me put on my tin cap and read your mind.
Yes! The answer you seek was Yes.
So calling Cagle a liar for padding his resume’s insult anyone with a bootstrap story? I’ll keep my tin hat on until that thought becomes a brain fart.
Tactics? I have none. Sounds like you could lend me some that aren’t being used.
So, if a college degree is a receipt, what do you think of a Georgia High School diploma.
pssstttt … please don’t insult me or any one else with a boot strap success story by comparing them with Cagle and Handel or any other professional politician.
Thank you.
October 21, 2009 at 1:50 pm
My initial response was to Matt Parker. Maybe that wasn’t clear.
I won’t insult you with any wonderful success stories of people not having a college degrees and how they relate to the political campaigns of two people who do not have college degrees. However, I betcha a shiny nickel, the Republicans will have no reservation insulting you all the way to the ballot box.
Do I consider a high school diploma a receipt? No. I think it shows baseline competency. You might think the baseline for competency to be governor is a college degree. I disagree and I believe a large portion of the voters you need will disagree. I may be wrong. You may be right. We both may be lunatics.
And spearing a politician for padding a resume is always acceptable. But its a different story. Attempt to tie the two together and you start to give him way to slip out. Focus on the lie and nail him on it. Don’t muddy the water.
And you can borrow my tin foil hat any time.
October 21, 2009 at 1:59 pm
BTW, Matt Parker is a cardiologist with a receipt from Boston University and Georgetown University’s School of Medicine.
His high school receipt is from West Hall High School.
Is your tin hat big enough to cover his inflated head?
pssst… would you get an angioplasty from a high school drop out? Would you construct a competency exam for voters? Like, I don’t know, obtaining a photo ID, a voter’s registration card, and a birth certificate?
Isn’t that Handel’s position as well as K.C. Cagles?
Minimum legal standards to be a voter but no minimum standards for Governor…
Hope to see ya at the next Tin Hat Convention. It’s right after the Procrastination Meeting.
October 21, 2009 at 2:13 pm
The minimum legal standard for voting is citizenship and the age of 18, we get rid of poll tests many moons ago.
As for the other stuff, as much as I would love to go down a full blown tin hatted libertarian rant, not today. See I’m already ahead of you on the procrastination (which makes about as much sense as an E.E. Cummings poem)
And doctor’s is not good bait for me. I want the best doctor possible. Now if you’d asked me whether I think it should be required for a lawyer to have a J.D. to practice law…
October 21, 2009 at 2:28 pm
I know a doctor who’s also a lawyer. Sues himself and wins.
I have a libertarian rant written down. I’ll just read it again.
I didn’t think Jawga required an education to practice law …
MD
October 21, 2009 at 2:39 pm
I’m pretty sure Georgia no longer recognizes “read law”
October 21, 2009 at 3:08 pm
Seriously, you don’t think requiring a photo ID and a voter’s registration card and a a birth certificate meet the standards of a competency test?
Miss a deadline and you’re eliminated. I hear a lot of people saying we need more competent voters.
I think we need a competent SOS.
October 21, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Read law?
I’ll have to look that up. Only time I’ve ‘heard’ it was as a juror. The plaintiff’s attorney objected to the defense ‘reading law’ to the jury.
He was over ruled.
October 21, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Read law was a method where a person could apprentice with a licensed lawyer then be admitted to the bar without going to law school. My best recollection is it is no longer allowed in Georgia. Bobby Lee Cook is one of the more famous lawyers to be elevated by this method.
October 22, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Ah. I also looked that up. A couple states still allow it to be done under a judge instead of a lawyer.
Some ‘read law’ educated lawyers still practice in GA. I think. Seems like I’ve used one.
Or, that lawyer used an accelerated law school program.
Don’t think I’d fly in a plane serviced by ‘receipt’ mechanices.