Ga. Senate punishes females, the poor, poor females

Georgia’s senators went after women and poors like they stole something

Hol-y merde, but our state Senate sure did a number on women and poors yesterday during the Crossover Day scrum, the deadline for bills to pass one of the chambers of the Legislature if they hope to become law.

Now, we realize this is an election year, but the GOP-controlled Senate spent the better part of 12 hours hammering away at one right-wing wedge issue after another, from guns to abortion and contraceptives to welfare mothers.

How much damage was done? Consider these bills that got passed by the upper chamber Wednesday like so many septic gallstones:

SB 312, to require welfare recipients to participate in “personal growth activities,” such as classes or counseling. Coming from some of the members of the Legislature, this really took some chutzpah

SB 460, to allow companies with religious affiliations to deny birth-control coverage to their female employees

SB 493, to specifically allow kids between 18-21 to pack heat if they’ve taken a firearms course — because not enough people carry guns in Georgia already