Death to Buckhead

It's worth noting as we enter the third year of the covid pandemic that it was two years ago yesterday that the World Health Organization first announced the official name for the disease that was causing the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak: covid-19. The new name for the disease was an abbreviated version of coronavirus disease 2019.

In very much unrelated news, the Republican-controlled Georgia state legislature did the right thing for once and shut down any referenda or legislation to allow secession of the Buckhead community from the City of Atlanta.  In a blow to the cityhood movement, Georgia House Speaker David Ralston agreed yesterday to give new Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens time to curb violent crime before considering legislation to split the city.  Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, the president of the Georgia state Senate, previously announced his opposition to the measure.  With both chambers opposed to the idea, the cityhood movement is officially dead until at least 2023. 

It was always my contention that the movement was just a charade to increase Republican turnout in the 2022 general election by whipping the base up into a frenzy.  Georgia Republicans are now going to have to rely on the nationwide false controversies being pushed by the GOP, like the supposed teaching of critical race theory in school.