Sunday, January 8, 2012
Politics Wild Hog Supper is the usual good-old-boy schmooze-fest
Posted by Scott Henry @ScottTheHenry on Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 9:13 PM
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Oh, well, let's hope the state budget issues will distract the Atlanta-haters from their customary city-bashing. At any rate, the supper saw everyone in good spirits and making nice. Neutered Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, R-Gainesville, glad-handed his way across the room, greeting people with his familiar goofy grin. Gov. Nathan Deal briefly took the stage to greet returning pols and welcome newcomers. State Attorney Gen. Sam Olens could scarcely get 10 feet without some well-wisher introducing himself. Congressman Phil Gingrey, R-Marietta, was present, as was Labor Commissioner Mark Butler; Common Cause director William Perry; and Miss Cobb County Stephanie Burkholder. It was a little sad to see former Agriculture Commissioner Tommy Irvin, who'd presided over the evening for most of the past half-century, standing by himself, wearing orthopedic shoes in place of his trademark cowboy boots.
As usual, the food served would kill you in a week if you ate it every day: the eponymous wild hog BBQ, trays piled high with pork rinds, Brunswick stew, potato salad, corn on the cob with rivers of butter and
fried chicken for those trying to eat light, washed down with sweet tea and followed by peach cobbler and peach ice cream.
The crowd had pretty much thinned out by 7 p.m. After all, everyone needed to get an early start on reversing any social and political progress Georgia might have seen since last they met.
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What happened to the threat by Occupiers or others to make a statement at the event?
http://clatl.com/freshloaf/archives/2011/1…
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QM, they were too busy hassling the minimum wage workers at Atlantic Station to confront those with actual power.
Oh, yeah. Guess the Occupiers bailed.
And Miss Cobb was there for the pork, of course.
Yeah. We missed a shot there. We'll try not to happen again. Occupy Atlanta is going through a bit of a reboot right now, for the obvious reasons. Stay tuned.
That is ... "try not to LET THAT happen again ..." Alas, the joy of 6 a.m. posting ...
If by outpost, you mean are we "occupying" a house on Glen Iris, the answer is yes. Yes! The owners of 404 Glen Iris are facing an unjust foreclosure. Occupy Atlanta has staked out the property. We have a rotating presence there, with the intent of making eviction enforcement as public and difficult as possible. Hopefully, the media attention will bring the bank to the negotiating table with a reasonable solution, as happened with a home we Occupied on behalf of a disabled military veteran in Riverdale.
Eloise Pittman bought her home on Glen Iris Dr in 1953. Eloise, a 62-year-old retired school system employee on a modest fixed income, heard her church needed help and was approved for a $312,000 loan. This loan would have cost her a million dollars to repay. (The property is currently assessed at about $154,000.) As a senior living on a fixed income she never should have been offered this loan in the first place. We believe this loan was a classic act of predatory lending.
I covered growth and development in Gwinnett County for the AJC for a few years. In my time there and at other publications, I've written a bit about predatory lending and mortgage fraud. This is one of the most egregious and obvious cases of predatory lending I've ever heard about. I would encourage Attorney General Sam Olens to investigate this as a criminal matter.
Eloise Pittman died Nov. 29. Her family is now left with a mountain of debt, and are trying to save a home that’s been in their family for about 50 years. They are facing imminent eviction, and are struggling to make ends meet financially. The bills are stacking up as they try to save the home, and they are having a hard time being able to cover the cost of their mother's burial.
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