The Ron Show

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?...

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...

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, such as Stacey Abrams and Reverend Senator Raphael Warnock . Hear as I spend some time going over about half of his Q&A with AJC reporters along with former "Politica...

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 / bi...

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...

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...

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...

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. Fi...

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...

For some legal perspective and internal insights from the 'Cop City Vote' vote movement, frequent guest, former state & federal prosecutor Alex Joseph, took my call today to weigh in on Chris Carr's RICO indictments. Her volunteering with the referendum initiative allowed me to ask if these indictment are having an intimidatory effect on volunteers. News broke today of yet another...

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...

Took Labor Day off (sort of) and opted to share some prior conversations today, with newly-minted American citizen (and my close friend) Ludwig, my friend & co-founder/president of American Haircuts (and SAG-AFTRA actor) David Alexander, Alabama NAACP s state chapter chair Bernard Simelton and inclusive baptist minister Grant Myerholtz.

Covid's rearing its nefarious head again , so I figured I'd ask: what are you going to do when a new booster rolls out later this month? Are you prone to wearing a mask in close quarters? CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta has some "common sense" advice on how we handle it, if we feel symptoms. The antivax folks got me to thinking about that scene in "Avenue 5" where a big cont...

Governor Brian Kemp spent more time dousing the hardly-flickering embers of Sen. Colton Moore's efforts to have Fulton DA Fani WIllis removed and/or "defunded" than he did talking hurricane aftermath at a press conference pretty much called for news about the state's post-Idalia efforts. Hear what he had to say (and what I had to say about what he had to say). I'd called on R...

Rudy G got popped in federal court today , and will have to shell out (a minimum) of $13k to Ruby Freeman & Shaye Moss - the twu Fulton County elections workers he targeted with false accusations of wrongdoing on election night, November 2020. Hear how the judge dressed him and his attorney down. Oh but there IS evidence of voter fraud in Alabama . Guess which side is guilty? There's a bre...

Yesterday's judicial surprise - former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows showing up to testify for HOURS in an effort to get his trial moved to federal court - is perhaps a bit of a dogwhistle, I think. Never mind that defendants of color have spent many a decade - for more than a century, really - not enjoying the benefit of a jury that's more to their hue. There's also the curious wa...

Trump's trial date set - an OBVIOUS ploy to derail his presidential campaign, right? I mean, whose fault is that, anyway? It's what former North Carolina governor called "the power of Trump" that freezes the GOP and other presidential hopefuls from DOING something about it - and his even BEING a viable candidate anymore. Then there's Vivek's nonsensical 'Meet the Pres...

Call it "afterglow," if you wish. Now that Donald Trump's been printed & photographed and paid his bond ( with the aid of a bail bondsman? ), today's show was going to be lighter and more airy, but first let's revisit Donald's tarmac tirade and Laura Ingraham's hilarious hyperbole last night. My returning guest today was Susan Greenhagl from "Free Speech for...

Pretty explosive story from the Cobb County Courier exposing how recent county school board book bans didn't stem from parent/guardian complaints at all, but from "Libs of TikTok." Journalist Becky Gaunt joins me to share details from her story and how the facts all came together for it. I'm also joined by Andrew Lawrence, deputy director for rapid response at Media Matters for A...

My first guest today is BRAND-NEW American citizen Ludwig, my good friend from the Dominican Republic. Hear his experience - and how his pathway to citizenship lends him to having empathy for asylum-seekers today. Donnell Suggs from the Atlanta Voice joins me to give me bits from the circus scene outside the Fulton County Jail as Sydney Powell, Jenna Ellis and Rudy Giuliani all get booked & po...

When right wing (white nationalist) efforts to demonize major cities with "crime" tropes - as Donald Trump has to Atlanta and district attorney Fani Willis - their falsities need to be called out. Freelance journalist George Chidi - of the Atlanta Objective on Substack - joins me to do just that. We also talk - at length - about the city's fumbling the P.R. pooch when it comes to &qu...

Atlanta's Democratic party-membered civic leadership is going with 'signature matching' - the same technique the state party sued the state to stop using - to verify the 104,000+ signatures the 'Cop City Vote' organizers collected. The lack of self-awareness with the mayor & council here is stunning. From Erick Erickson's "The Gathering," let's eavesdrop i...

Independent tribunal, be damned! A GOP majority Cobb County Board of Education needs to pander to its base, so elementary school teacher Katie Rinderle simply *had* to lose her job to please the (not so) "silent (not at all) majority." Plenty to say about that, as did the Southern Poverty Law Center. Speaking of the minority party still running roughshod over the idea of "democracy&...

Today we learn some in the "basket of deplorables" are publishing Fulton grand juror names, addresses and social media accounts to give rise to intimidation by the far right. Deplorable. As is Marjorie Taylor Green for her latest screed on OANN - we have the audio. Other than that, I'm back on the "hear people out" mantra - even Erick Erickson (a bit, before he goes hyper-p...