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The U.S. House of Representatives voted recently to remove newly elected Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia from congressional committees for endorsing violence against Democratic politicians, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and for spreading harmful and hateful disinformation, from the QAnon conspiracy theory that portrays Democrats as cannibalistic pedophiles, to the lie that school shootings have been staged, to various anti-Semitic tropes.
One of the last straws before the House acted was video that recently came to light showing Greene in Washington, D.C., on two separate occasions stalking and harassing gun-regulation advocate David Hogg, a survivor of the 2018 school massacre in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead.
The majority leader of the Georgia Senate unveiled plans Wednesday for major changes to the state's election laws that would strengthen state oversight of election officials and add more identification requirements to absentee ballot voting, including elimination of no-excuse absentee voting with certain exceptions.
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Newton County state senator to lead Georgia Legislative Black Caucus Tonya Anderson, a Democrat from Lithonia, was elected to the Georgia Senate in 2012. - photo by Special Photo
A state senator representing Newton County has been elected chairwoman of the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus.
District 43 State Sen. Tonya Anderson, D-Lithonia, will lead the new executive board of the 65-member Caucus after her election for the 2021-22 term of the Georgia General Assembly on Monday, Jan. 4. It is a truly an honor to have been elected as chairwoman of the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus,” said Anderson, whose district includes west and northwest Newton County.