Georgia Political Showdown: The Battle Over Girls Sports and the Georgia State Budget

This seg­ment delves into the ongo­ing polit­i­cal dra­ma in Geor­gia sur­round­ing the pro­tec­tion of girls’ sports and the state’s bud­get. Burt Jones and Jon Burns are at odds, with Jon Burns attempt­ing to steal the spot­light by intro­duc­ing the Riley Gaines Act, under­cut­ting Burt Jones’ orig­i­nal SB1 bill. Burns is accused of polit­i­cal maneu­ver­ing to weak­en Jones’ influ­ence, with Front­line and House mem­bers prais­ing Burns’ actions. Mean­while, the Geor­gia leg­is­la­ture is push­ing for­ward a $40.5 bil­lion midyear state bud­get that increas­es spend­ing while offer­ing only a small frac­tion back to tax­pay­ers. A call for clos­er scruti­ny of this bud­get, ques­tion­ing whether law­mak­ers are tru­ly con­ser­v­a­tive. Addi­tion­al­ly, it high­lights the con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing Colton Moore’s arrest orders for Kei­th Williams, which raised issues about author­i­ty inside the Capi­tol and the juris­dic­tion of Capi­tol Police.

• Burt Jones and Jon Burns were at the White House for the sign­ing of the exec­u­tive order to pro­tect girls sports. Burt Jones was the first to present the bill to pro­tect girls sports SB1. Riley Gaines and Front­line want­ed their name on the bill. Greg Dolezal is car­ry­ing the bill for Lt Gov­er­nor Burt Jones. It is ready to go and ready for a vote. Then the whole Colton Moore thing hap­pened. Look­ing at the dates. Jon Burns ups up a bill called the Riley Gaines Act on Feb 4th to pull the car­pet out from under Burt to invite the house mem­bers and Front­line to announce the House has a Riley Gaines Act. then have Front­line come to the podi­um to pat Jon Burns on the back and thank him. This morn­ing we have the vote going on in the Sen­ate for Girls Sports. We have anoth­er chris­t­ian orga­ni­za­tion Geor­gia Faith and Free­dom Coali­tion. SB1 will be the first on the block to be vot­ed on today. Jon Burns is putting the knife in Burt Jones back and twist­ing it. Who in Geor­gia keeps putting Jon Burns name on the White House guest list when he should be kicked out of the Speak­er of the House in Geor­gia. For years we have been ask­ing for our law­mak­ers to pro­tect our girls but why now? But you can’t talk to them about elec­tions. The gov­er­nor will sign the House bill and con­tin­ue to stab Burt in the back. 
• The bud­get… House pan­el approves $40.5 bil­lion midyear state bud­get. The GA fis­cal year clos­es July 1st. The new bills go in on July 1. What they do in every leg­isla­tive ses­sion they pass a bill for the next year. But the first thing they do is amend the last bud­get. They can­not out­spend antic­i­pat­ed tax rev­enue. The July bud­get is an antic­i­pat­ed bud­get. Then the mid year is a bud­get adjust­ment, this year it was increased 4.4 bil­lion with 2.7 bil­lion from sur­plus. They are increas­ing spend­ing with your mon­ey and give you just a frac­tion back. They will talk about tort reform and cut­ting your tax­es and send­ing back your hard earned mon­ey. We need a team to study this bud­get because they are not con­ser­v­a­tives. The bud­get is increas­ing. 
• The truth of Colton Moore send­ing out arrest orders for Kei­th Williams. It hap­pened inside the Capi­tol, no law enforce­ment does not have author­i­ty inside the Capi­tol, only the Capi­tol Police. The Geor­gia Build­ing Author­i­ty owns the build­ing and the Capi­tol Police had juris­dic­tion to the five-mile radius around Capi­tol Square. Where the charges that were pressed on Colton Moore were pressed by Capi­tol Police.