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just before crossing from webster into sumter county , georgia, the signs on the georgia highway 27 points towards the archery at home of jimmy carter, and then the road eases into the plains where it becomes church street. the business district not much more than a block long, near the railroad tracks. the street from the seaboard coast line railroad depot that served as the campaign headquarters for carter's improbable run for the presidency of 1976 and now has a museum commemorating that campaign. plains, georgia is no longer the habit of excitement that it was in the summer of 1976, when legions of journalists and thousands of tourists descended to learn more of the democratic nominee for president. then, lillian carter at the train station and billy carter threw back a few beers and entertained visitors with quips like, i have a mother who joined the peace corps and went to india when she was 68. i have a sister that races motorcycles and another that is a holy roller preacher. i have a brother that says he wants to be president of the united states. then pausing for a dramatic effect

in randolph county in georgia, randolph county is 61% african-american. whites lived there as well. when they are closing seven of the nine polling stations, whites are going to feel that. so, it doesn't mean that whites don't get hurt. and so, whites need to be hollering. they need to start shouting because all of the rigmarole it put an extrahat id burden on you that wasn't because of thely lie of voter fraud. that is what we have to understand. is that the threshold that whites are willing to endure to have this democracy come under siege has to be breached. we have to fight together to make sure that the 15th since 1972. first of all, be careful what you wish for. has helped to ensure that minority communities have representation. second of all, sorry, south florida. we have had voter fraud. we have had individuals who are not american citizens attempt to vote. we have had individuals try to cases, even try to vote more than once. having an identification card to prove that you are voting in the areunity, and that you where you are supposed to be in regards to voting is a the pa

is as hard core -- for folks who don't know, forsythe is one of the most conservative counties in the state of georgia. conservative state, conservative county. reeva jennings has been building the republican party up there for as long as anyone can remember. . lost her in an untimely way but while everybody loves you on your way out the door, senator, you might remember a tough primary season or two where folks might come to you and say, johnny, why aren't you more angry about this? why aren't you doing this? why aren't you -- as republican primary seasons are, we tend to eat our own. and reeva jennings, the first time i met her, was fielding one of those questions. somebody came up and said, we've got to get somebody to challenge that johnny isakson in the next primary. he's soft for a republican. you know reeva. she doesn't have any soft innocence her. she went right to your steel backbone, she went right after it. she took to that whole crowd of republicans saying, you can poor-mouth anybody you want to in this town, but you cannot poor-mouth johnny isakson because he's done more for the republica

instance, have, for assault on rural counties, closing down the polling in those-- whites live counties as well. georgia,ph county in randolph county, 61% african-american. whites live there as well. when they are closing seven of the nine polling stations, whites are going to feel that. so it does not mean that whites don't get hurt. so whites need to be hollering. they need to be shouting. because all of that rigmarole that it took to get that i.d. put an extra burden on you that was not necessary, simply because of the lie of voter fraud. that is what we have to understand, is that the areshold that whites willing to endure to have this democracy come under siege has to be breached. we have to fight together to make sure that the 15th amendment is viable, that the parties are responsive to the needs of american citizens, and that is not what we have right now. is ao a little hollering good thing, because it makes it really clear if something unjust is happening in this system. we would not be as far along as we are if folks had not been hollering all along. host: we have a few minutes left here with

our state university is one of four georgia regional universities and we have a mission to serve a 41 county service area primarily in south georgia. in 2017, leadership started talking about how they could have an impact on the reoccurring challenges that all of these communities face. in the business community help there. government, and the retainment that was the result that they created a center for regional impact. and i am working with that organization in 2018. the mission of the center and trying to work with all 41 counties to identify opportunities and challenges that they might have, and i go back to that and try to identify resources to help them out. i could be interned, graduate assistants, class projects, research, professors working on projects that really just depends with the natives. and it covers all. we are focused on 41 service area. it's a very diverse area. many of you y would probably consider everyone rural the largest county in our region news hundred and 15000 and we have counties as well as 3500. so what works in one county is not going to work in the other even

county government. and they came up with a result was they created the center for southeastal georgia impact and i startedworking with that organization in 2018. the mission of the center is try to work with all 41 counties to identify opportunities and challenges they might have and go back to the state to identify resources to help them out that could be interns, graduating assistance, research, professors working on projects. it just depends what the need is and covers all sets of our colleges. we're focused on our 41-county area and it's very diverse. meaning you would probably consider everybody rural but the largest is loudon 115,000 and counties as small as 1, 500. our goal is the communities know what they need best so we're trying to find out what they need and go back and try to find resources to help them out. one thing that helped me out i guess in the transition is i had a 25-year back unroud in economic development and i had a successful career in georgia and spent the last 20 years in a different county. when i left we had 96 projects under construction and 3.1% unemployment rate which is p

wow, you can see the officer rolling on the ground after he's clipped by the train in polk county, georgiaficer was hurt but will recover. a teacher caught drunk behind the wheel with student in the backseat. corey malone hitting back, he blew a breathalyzer more than 3 times a limit. officials say the sign violated a city ordinance and he plans to fight. >> i just believe in ticking for what's right and i try to follow through with that and we want to be able to continue on with what we are doing. >> he says he won't pay the 118-dollar fine unless the court says he has to. a look at your headlines, back to you. >> that will get people fired. >> yeah. steve: 20 minutes now before the top of the hour, janice dean at times square where it's a nice day today. >> let's talk about this first, though, we could have tornadoes across the south, severe weather including large hail damaging winds and we will see tornado watches and warnings throughout the day today, on top of that the threat for ice over parts of the midwest and the great lakes so travel is going to be difficult if not impossible fo

but many of our counties in rural georgia projecting opulation losses and job losses and from an economic development standpoint, that's death knell. so the census posed a tremendous opportunity for us to get involved. a tremendous challenge for our 41 counties. i mention my career in the county and one thing that tied into what we're doing with the census enwhy was there we had a pilot program with the after oft georgia called archways and wed a employee that served, we would identity big projects and go back to athens and bring resources back to us and one of our projects was the 2010 census. so we really in 2009 had a complete count committee before we knew was one. we had a great team in place. we had 30 to 40 people. we had representatives or trusted voices representing every different demographic of the community and as a result, we had an 8.19% in the 2010 census which is pretty strong for a rural community. our parlayed the information and used that in every request for proposal we sent out for a new industry, retail, commercial,

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county, i know the community will be resilient and persevere. thank you. i yield my time. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from georgia, mr. carter, for five minutes. mr. speaker, i rise today to remember the life of georgia state representative jay powell who passed away in late november at the age of 67. at the time of his passing, representative powell has served in the georgia general assembly for 10 years and had dedicated his time in public service to helping the rural areas of our state. his colleagues remember him as a straightforward talker and remember that if he said he was going to do something, he did it. a testament to his honest character, during his tenure he rose to one of the most powerful members of the assembly as the chairman of the rules committee. there he played a large part in the-n deciding which bills came up for a vote. one of his most important priorities included introducing a bill that would require small fees collected by the state, like police fines, to be spent exactly where taxpayers are told they would be spent. representative powell was going to be deeply missed in georgia and throughou

talk about stacking the deck but georgia's governor is not alone my friends according to the guardian while the numbers are scant even going back to 2008 statement county government spent a total of 5300000000. defense systems a year that's just 2.5 percent of the roughly $200.00 billions spent on criminal justice by states and local governments every year so i asked the panel as we kick things off in the 2nd half have we turned our backs on yet another one of our most important constitutional rights by shortchanging and underfunding our public defender system michael i think that's a bad omen to do such. because by cutting the. funding you're actually going to be increasing the workload as a consequence and people are not going to be able to afford lawyers so you would be denied your due process as a consequence and i think that really needs to be thought out more carefully before they do that they can always get get funding from other resources but the inherent right of defense defending yourself is really essential and we need to stick to the constitution absolutely i would agree and we also have to point to the fact that the united states has the l

location in the state or in the county or jurisdiction so that all members eligible to vote have adequate opportunity to vote? secretary raffensperger: in the state of georgia, we have put out to our election officials, police expect 5 million people to come out and vote. expect numbers. i am an engineer, so i start running numbers. if you have this many people in precinct and look at how many people can move through the line, you better make sure you have enough machines to handle that. you may need to redeploy people in your county. we decreased in our purchase by 10%. every county will have enough machines. it is the county officials who have to make sure they are deployed. we need to plan so we have uniformed line flow. i guess i am good at that because i am an engineer. we are trying to help the election officials administer as best we can. matthew: a great way for us to highlight the work in polling place lines. we got the report last year. we have some work on that as well. thank you for being on the panel. i'm going to call the second panel. [applause] >> this is an exciting day. there is the tire and he -- the tyranny of the time. i am charles stua

georgia such a welcoming place pass through to during their time at sea. work.p the good r. speaker, i rise today to recognize betty who is retiring after 41 years serving as ware county board of elections. past four the decades, ms. gillis has done an exceptional job ensuring are both robust and fair. looking back on her time, she enjoyed every as minute of it and she's come to think of her colleagues as family. in her retirement, ms. gillis is planning to spend more time with family. however, it will simply be impossible to replace a public excitedas dedicated and about her role as ms. gillis. thank you for your service to the first congressional district of georgia, ms. gillis. congratulations on a retirement well deserved. . mr. speaker, i rise today to remember the life of mrs. claire frazier who passed away on december 23, 2019, at the age of 58, after a battle with cancer. she dedicated her life to serving her alma mater, young harris college. a member of the board of trustees for over a decade, she served on a number of different committees that impacted daily campus life, including committees on academic affairs, development, and student affairs. she also created t

location in the state or in the county, in the jurisdiction, so that all members who are eligible to vote have adequate opportunity to vote. >> well, in the state of georgia, we've already put out to our election officials, please expect 5 million people to come out and vote this fall, and plan accordingly. expect big numbers. but you also have to really just run quick numbers. i'm an engineer, i start running numbers. if you have this many people in a precinct and look at how people can move through the line and what you're expecting, you better make sure you have enough machines to handle that. you may need to redeploy people in your county. we increased our purchase by 10% in our county. now it's the county election officials' job to make sure they're deployed. you don't need 20 machines here where you have 100 voters. you need to plan for uniform line flow. it's something i guess i'm good at because i'm an engineer and we're trying to help the county election officials administer as best they can. thanks for your question. >> a grateful way for us to highlight the bbc work. we put out our report in 2018 election last year. we have work on that as well

georgia, something i think we do a good job with. we have sustainable force, we have prescribed burns. in fact i'm having a prescribed burn in my property that i own in camden county next to -- near cumberland island, sheffield island, being done next week, as a matter of fact, a precautionary measure to make sure we don't have problems later on. of course we're doing this in conjunction with dnr, department of natural resources, in georgia, making sure that the wind conditions are right, the weather conditions are right. but now is the time to do that. i want to ask you, dr. collins, the growth of communities, particularly in areas that before we didn't have communities, combined with the lack of forest management, how has that contributed to the rise of some of the severe fires that we've seen in our country, particularly out west? >> dr. davis mentioned this as well. it is an issue. there are many issues. one is that some of the people moving into those communities aren't totally familiar with the ecology of the forest. the fact that they're prone to burn, they're adapted to burn. they don't understand there's a role that we need to play there in terms of manag