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Captured at Park in Marietta, GA, USA settings: Camera: ILCE-9, focal length: 50mm, SS: 1/320, Aperture: f/2, ISO: 200, Flash: off by Kevin Lowery
State Rep. Matthew Wilson officially launched a historic run for Georgia insurance commissioner today. A win in November 2022 would make him the first openly LGBTQ statewide official in Georgia history.
“I’m excited to bring that representation to the statewide ticket this cycle, and I’m particularly excited to bring that representation to the insurance commissioner race,” he told Project Q Atlanta in an exclusive interview.
If he wins, Wilson would also be the first LGBTQ person in the South elected to a constitutional office, he added.
Teachers rally in Raleigh for better pay in 2018.
Local money paid teachers on top of state teacher salaries artificially inflate North Carolina’s average salary for educators, according to the N.C. Association of Educators (NCAE).
“It is telling that if the local supplements were removed from the calculation, teacher pay in our state would be near the bottom of the national rankings,” said NCAE President Tamika Walker Kelly.
Tamika Walker Kelly
Walker Kelly’s remark comes on the heels of the National Education Association’s annual average teaching salary rankings. North Carolina ranked 33rd nationally in teacher pay with an average teacher salary of $54,150 for the 2019-20 school year.
Rep. Julia Howard
In case you missed it, the editorial pages of multiple major news outlets across the state are decrying North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore’s recent remarkable decision to strip his fellow Republican lawmaker Rep. Julia Howard of her position as co-chair of the powerful House Finance Committee.
As you’ve probably heard by now, Moore took the extremely unusual action in response to Howard’s opposition to a controversial proposal that would bestow tax breaks on people who received federal Paycheck Protection Program loans in response to the COVID-19 recession. Among other things, Howard has expressed concern that several lawmakers stand to benefit directly from the bill. The battle was mostly fought out in secret in the House Republican caucus, but later came at least partially to light in public.
Let s elect our elections chief
Published 8:15 a.m. today
North Carolina’s state elections board changed its composition nearly a half-dozen times from December 2016 - January 2019. It went from five members to eight to nine to zero (for nine months) to nine and finally back to five.
Over 24 months, battles between the General Assembly, the governor, and the courts whipsawed the board’s structure and leadership. The makeup of the panel empowered to implement election laws; determine voter and candidate eligibility; investigate campaign finance irregularities; convene hearings challenging voting or residency concerns; and hand out fines and issue criminal referrals was jumbled almost as often as some people get haircuts.
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