The Ron Show

In the aftermath of the despicable attack by Hamas on Israel, the right wing "spin room" opted not to waste a second mourning the dead or keeping "politics at the waters edge;" instead, they coalesced on the false "$6 billion" narrative. Facts be damned. Well, now's a good time to remind them (and ourselves) that their last President likely shared Israeli intelligence with Russia - now an ally of...

Mayor Andre Dickens still doesn't have any takers, it would seem, for the Atlanta Medical Center abandoned by Wellstar a year ago, so he's looking to stop any potential development for another six months to see if something might shake out. One councilmember has an idea - an idea similar in price tag to the public safety training facility. Interesting. Bernard Simelton checks in from the Alabama N...

The University of Georgia and it's athletic association had a pretty cringey day in court and Alabama got a new Congressional map. Nationally, Republicans are blaming Democrats for issues within the Republican party. Say what?

Governor Brian Kemp and his economic team took a victory lap presser earlier today to back-slap each other for again earning the distinction of being the "number one" state for business; the problem is, what Georgia's really "number one" for is kowtowing to developers and doling out tax breaks, while key rankings for citizens languish. Stacey Abrams caught a lot of flak in 2022 for pointing that o...

It's been nearly two months since a 62-year old church deacon, John Hollman, died while in police custody at the site of a traffic accident HE called 911 about. To date, the police lapel and/or dash cam video has yet to be released, and Hollman's family wants it out. This, of course, is poor timing for pro-"public safety training facility" folks, but also quite damning if withholding the video - c...

Today marks one year since this show launched on AmericaOne Radio - and later via podcast. My first guest that day was Melita Easters from the Georgia WIN List, so she was kind enough to join me again for the full show to preview Heather Cox Richardson's appearances in Atlanta October 10th, along with Heather's new book, "Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America." We skip around a bit di...

Every time in the last three decades we've arrived at a government shutdown, Republicans have held the House. That's no coincidence. Hell, the GOP can't get along with themselves but Democrats are supposed to work with enough of 'em to keep us afloat? In my opinion, the Atlanta Regional Planning Commission abdicated their responsibility earlier this week, ⁠rubber-stamping a proposal to build a "Ba...

Without question, the winner of the second GOP debate last night was .... Joe Biden. Ron DeSantis gave his re-election campaign JUST the on-point soundbite needed, and Chris Christie gets the assist, too. In general, the squabbling and inability to have substantive policy discussion just put on display how irresponsible that party is when it comes to deciding which is more fit to lead this nation....

Vice President Kamala Harris visited Morehouse College Tuesday. Here's audio of that campus Q&A.

Why's the resignation of a rural Georgia county's elections board chairman a bigger deal than you might think? Well, it's Coffee County, and the "rot" is at least two people deep in just that one county, and yet there's no appetite at the Georgia Secretary of State's office to find out if the rot's even deeper (or in other counties). There's also no appetite for insulating the state's 2024 electio...

A back-n-forth text snit between Mayor Andre Dickens & Councilmember Keisha Sean Waites via a group text involving them and all of city council got leaked today, and for feedback, Councilmember Waites joined me. A major city mayor announced he's a Republican over the weekend. Says cities need Republicans. I agree. Hear why. Oh, and watch how easy it is for me to say a corrupt Democrat should step...

Ya know how ya feel when you're playing miniature golf and you manage to slip the ball between the two blades of the spinning windmill? Yeah, Jon Ossoff did that when he announced his support for "a" public training facility for the city of Atlanta, but not necessarily "the" proposed facility in unincorporated south Dekalb County. His presumed 2026 opponent, governor Brian "Brine" Kemp was hemming...

Dr. Jackie Echols, president of the South River Watershed Alliance, joined me today to clear up any misconceptions given by Atlanta mayor Andre Dickens (on 'Politically Georgia' last week) that the city's answered environmental concerns when it comes to "Cop City." Spoiler alert: he wasn't being honest about that. She and I discuss that and review the many environment issues surrounding constructi...

Well knock me over with a feather: Georgia is one of sixteen (almost all of them, southern) states that failed to equitably fund their HBCU land grant school(s) as they did their other(s). Well, the Department of Education (the one the right wants to abolish, of course) is awaiting word how Governor Brian Kemp will address that $603 million gulf. I've some ideas. Remember "tan suit-gate?" Oh the o...

Are we in "the upside down?" When I'm agreeing with Erick Erickson and Karl Rove on the same episode, you might think so. In this narrative I get to tie in the Lauren Boebert silliness, Trump's 'Meet The Press' disaster and mock 'fiscal conservatism' in a nice tidy two-segment arc. But I gotta get back to 'Cop City' a bit. Governor Brian Kemp appeared on a local radio show to parrot his recent twe...

Atlanta mayor Andre Dickens' appearance on the Atlanta Journal Constitution's "Politically Georgia" podcast raised eyebrows - both for what he said and for the subtle refutations from those he name-dropped. Hear as I spend some time going over about half of his Q&A with AJC reporters along with former "Political Rewind" host Bill Nigut. There's also the matter of Atlanta's police & fire chiefs co-...

Freelance journalist Becky Gaunt gave me the blow-by-blow (almost literally) from this week’s Cobb County School Board meeting. Then a little “hockey” (arena) talk before catching up with Cobb County Commissioner Jerica Richardson, who announced her bid for Congress vs Rep. Rich McCormick. Then I want to introduce you to “Politics Girl,” if you haven’t discovered her yet.

Pres. Joe Biden spoke at a Maryland community college earlier today, again taking ownership of the term "Bidenomics" and contrasting it against "MAGAnomics." You'll get the entire speech on today's show with some notes from yours truly. Then, when someone says "the quiet part out loud" they're telling you their intentions. Australian real estate mogul / billionaire Tim Gurner did a bit of that. Ta...

Governor Brian Kemp's gas tax break is both a nice "little" break at the pump and also nothing more than a political stunt. I see it for what it is, and you should, too. A federal judge lashed out at the city of Atlanta for being the cause of the all the "Cop City Vote" confusion, but c'mon ... we know this is by design. A planned development along the Atlanta Beltline at the former Amsterdam Walk...

I began today by dissecting Kevin McCarthy's mealy-mouthed presser, and Marjorie Taylor Green's many "tells" too. Then - I know I've been worrying about grassroots blowback - it's real and it's being spoken into existence. WIth local and state Democrats thumbing their noses at the Cop City Vote movement, there may be some real resentment brewing from activists towards the party that's going to nee...

Where I was & what I was doing on 9/1 1 - TWENTY TWO years ago. Time flies, but how fleeting that "united" feeling was, too, no? Meanwhile, the city of Atlanta continues to lose "the narrative" on the Cop City Vote initiative, with another eyeroll-inducing legal stunt as petitioners turn in 116,000+ signatures - about TWICE the number needed. Speaking of 9/11, we didn't discuss this much a month a...

Okay, I KNOW I should be diving into the "woulda coulda shoulda" indictments against more than THREE DOZEN people - including two former Georgia Senators and Sen. Lindsay Graham - from that infamous-now Fulton County Grand Jury, or Elon Musk sabotaging a Ukrainian military operation, but ... I had a couple of really good conversations I wanted to share going into the weekend instead. First, Sagamo...

Fulton Sheriff Pat Labat may have some explaining to do ... like why he hired his wife's now defunct companies to consult his political campaigns to the tune of $83k plus the last six years. Smacks of impropriety - no different than Jared & Ivanka making MILLIONS while dad's in office and, if guilty, Hunter while "pop" was VP. A Buckhead murder last weekend has just stuck in my craw since word bro...

For some legal perspective and internal insights from the 'Cop City Vote' vote movement, frequent guest Alex Joseph took my call today to weigh in on Chris Carr's RICO indictments. News broke today of yet another Fulton County Jail death, too, and with a looming $1.6b to $2 billion price tag for a replacement facility, the question is "would that new facility prevent these deaths? Also, what would...

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr dropped 61 RICO indictments against #CopCity activists today so I'm leading with audio from that press conference and some follow-up questions from journalists covering it. From there, pre-rage rage showing up on the right over potential (?) use of the 14th Amendment, so let's learn a little about that amendment and its historical significance and why it may wel...