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Lee Leslie: CCGA Event Series: The Georgia Transparency Project
How Transparent is our state legislature? Join us at the People TV studios for an in-depth discussion of the Georgia Transparency Project – which increases transparency above and beyond what legislators self-report.

Monica Smith: Not to be missed--"Mitt Romney, American Parasite" His years at Bain represent everything you hate about capitalism
James Sanderson had encountered a rare moment of industrial harmony.
It was the early 1990s, and the 750 men and women at Georgetown Steel were pumping out wire rods at peak performance. They had an abiding trust in management's ability to run a smart company. That allegiance was rewarded with fat profit-sharing checks. In the basement-wage economy of Georgetown, South Carolina, Sanderson and his co-workers were blue-collar aristocracy. "We were doing very good," says Sanderson, president of Steelworkers Local 7898. "The plant was making money, and we had good profit-sharing checks, and everything was going well."
What he didn't know was that it was about to end. Hundreds of miles to the north, in Boston, a future presidential candidate was sizing up Georgetown's books.
http://www.villagevoice.com/2012-04-18/news/Mitt-Romney-american-parasite/

David Evans: "If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing." --Kingsley Amis, born in London, 16 April, 1922.

Lee Leslie: The House passed Paul Ryan's budget today (228-191). From Daily Kos: Just a few reminders about the Ryan budget, and what the House Republicans put down as their political marker for 2012, their vision for a Republican-ruled America: It would give the wealthy a humongous tax break, the lowest tax rate since the Hoover administration; it would gut nutritional assistance, cutting it by 17 percent over the next decade; it would cut Medicare benefits and begin the process of killing the program; it would kill millions of jobs; it turns Medicaid into a block grant and deeply cuts federal spending for it, and for SCHIP, the children's health program; and it breaks the already agreed upon Budget Control Act of 2011, threatening, once again, a government shutdown. This is also the budget endorsed by Mitt Romney.

Lee Leslie: Check out the new website dedicated to SC judge who helped end legal Southern segregation: http://WatiesWaring.org/