The Ron Show

Georgia Republicans seem to forget we've jail overcrowding and judicial backlog problems; they're looking to make both worse by ramping UP cash bonds , because .... the cruelty is the point. The bill's author, a former (disgraced) cop, himself. Lt. Governor Burt Jones also wants to "gun up" your kid's gym teacher. Then there's the new GOP House Speaker, an anti-gay, a...

Rep. Shea Roberts ( maybe we're cousins? ) joined me today to begin by soundly criticizing the state Supreme Court's decision to affirm the six-week abortion ban prior to 'Dobbs.' She also takes Governor Kemp to task for "leading" the state to it's last place ranking on healthcare. Did ya hear Jenna Ellis' riveting "performance" earlier today? Let me let...

Things are beyond dire at Dekalb's animal shelter in Chamblee, with Lifeline Anima Project stating they'll need to ramp up euthanizing dogs at more than four times the usual clip to get its population under control - and they'd prefer not to at all, of course. TikTok's "Politics Girl" provides some clarity for us folks on the left concerned about Biden's age (myself i...

It's not been a good week for Governor Brian Kemp, relative to facts in the healthcare realm; I've 1,343 reasons to point out Kemp's failing hundreds of thousands of Georgians. The dominos from Trump's inner circle keep falling, as Fani Willis nabs another guilty plea - and cooperative witness in the process in her bid to take down the former President. President Biden's Oval O...

Former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell - she of the "kraken release" that never was - suddenly and unexpectedly rolled, taking a plea deal this morning. Hear her taking the plea - admitting guilt to six charges - and join me in speculating why. My theory? The treasure trove of recovered emails Coffee County officials appeared to try and bury under the "delete" button. So...

Hear Fani Willis tell her close friends and top donors about the crap she's having to deal with just for doing her job (in this case, prosecuting Trump's attempts to overturn Georgia's 2020 election results). Hey, speaking of prosecuting thugs, it turns out FBI data bears out an overall drop in the violent crime Republicans want you to believe is skyrocketing since Biden took office. I...

GOP dysfunction is truly funnier in that - while they flail at getting their sh*t together - they have the gall to blame Democrats for that, too. Georgia's racking up a helluva reserve , and while I'm pretty sure a future Senate candidate will just punt it back to us in some minor tax tweak, I've some tangible, meaningful suggestions that would better lives for hundreds of thousands, i...

Herschel's holding onto some serious campaign cash , and some Georgia GOPers are sweating his future Senate aspirations, but ... Uhm, there's another Clarence Thomas "conflict of interest" situation flying under the radar. Boop. Boop. New IN-CITY "Cop City" polling should give the mayor and Atlanta Police Foundation the sweats. Palestinian v Hamas conflation & &quot...

Dan Vicuna with Common Cause joined me today to dive into the C.H.A.R.G.E. batch of report cards for each state's redistricting efforts , and - surprise - Georgia got a D . IN fact, 18 of the 20 failing states are GOP-controlled. I'm also joined today by Chris Dowd with Athens Politics Nerd to get a better understanding as to why Deborah Gonzalez, Athens-Clarke district attorney - is the t...

Georgia's only openly Jewish General Assembly representative, ⁠Esther Panitch⁠ , was certainly emotional over the weekend, on the heels of Hamas' deadly and often grisly terror attack on Israel. She admitted yesterday one of her tweets, targeting "The Squad," was "beneath" her and her office. I'm pleased she came to this realization. BREAKING NEWS that the ⁠ U.S. an...

Mayor Andre Dickens' recent appearance on a non-commercial radio station podcast warrants a little scrutiny ,and I have a little to give. :) Of course the public safety training facility is the topic he and the three hosts focus on, but he did make some news in the wake of the Johnny Hollman death & subsequent firing of the APD officer involved , so there's that. I was joined by Rev. J...

The officer who showed up to handle a fender bender, but wound up tasing Johnny Hollman shortly before Hollman died is now out of a job . That whole situation is somehow rationale for a $90 million police campus, according to Atlanta's mayor . Kinda not digging the use of a civilian casualty by one's own police officer for that. I'm also noticing a note of sympathy for the plight of th...

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 intellig...

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 A...

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? Oh, also, what's up with Donald Trump's latest Nazi-esque "poisoning blood" rhetoric?

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...

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 withhol...

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." Whil...

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...

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 f...

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. The mayor took umbrage with a statement she gave last week via the Saporta Report. Or maybe it was Capital B . Or both? A major city mayor announced he's a Republican over the week...

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...

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 is...