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		<title>Ga. Dem chair Berlon gets State Bar reprimand</title>
		<link>http://atlantaunfiltered.com/2013/05/20/ga-dem-chair-berlon-gets-state-bar-reprimand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Walls</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 20, 2013 -- The Georgia Supreme Court today signed off on a reprimand for state Democratic Party chair Mike Berlon for his inaction in a 2005 child-custody case. A special master found that Berlon failed to file a change of custody petition requested by a client, who only found out when he appeared in court. "This has been going on for a long, long time and it's nice to get it resolved," Berlon said.]]></description>
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		<title>May 5-18, 2013</title>
		<link>http://atlantaunfiltered.com/2013/05/20/may-5-18-2013/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 13:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Walls</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watchdog News will look a little different from here on out, as much of what The Atlanta Journal-Constitution publishes in that arena is now behind a paywall (although they don&#8217;t like to call it that). We&#8217;ll try to post links to other news outlets&#8217; coverage rather than link you to a paywall. School resource officers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rep. Brooks indicted for alleged $1M embezzlement</title>
		<link>http://atlantaunfiltered.com/2013/05/16/rep-brooks-indicted-for-alleged-1m-embezzlement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 20:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Walls</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Georgia Association of Black Elected Officials]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Tyrone Brooks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tyrone Brooks, a Georgia state legislator for 33 years, has been indicted for allegedly misappropriating nearly $1 million from two organizations that he falsely represented as charities, authorities said today. A federal grand jury charged that he used the money to pay for personal expenses, including home repairs, furniture, lawn service, life insurance, entertainment, utilities, food and clothing, dry cleaning, electronic equipment and jewelry.]]></description>
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		<title>Surprise veto sidetracks charity tax break</title>
		<link>http://atlantaunfiltered.com/2013/05/14/surprise-veto-sidetracks-charity-tax-break/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 00:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Walls</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[special reports]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[community food banks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gov. Nathan Deal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulfstream Aerospace Corp.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indigent health care]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[May 14, 2013 -- Gov. Nathan Deal last week unexpectedly vetoed a bill that would have given $9 million in sales tax breaks to charitable medical clinics, federally qualified health centers, food banks and other charities. The measure, which breezed through the House and Senate, would have benefited many safety-net providers that expect to carry an extra patient load once the federal Affordable Care Act begins phasing out hospital subsidies for indigent care next year.

Deal's veto message noted that a 2010 tax reform panel recommended that all non-government and non-business exemptions be allowed to expire so the Legislature could decide whether they should be renewed. He did not apply that principle, however, when he signed a bill last month extending an estimated $18 million tax break to Gulfstream Aerospace Corp., a Savannah-based manufacturer of luxury jets.]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-Rep. Jerguson faces contempt order, $640K default judgment</title>
		<link>http://atlantaunfiltered.com/2013/05/14/ex-rep-jerguson-faces-contempt-order-640k-default-judgment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 15:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Walls</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[defaulted loans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sean Jerguson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[May 14, 2013 -- A federal judge has held former Rep. Sean Jerguson in contempt of court and entered a $640,000 default judgment against him and his partners in a Cedartown mobile home park. U.S. District Judge Marvin Shoob ruled Thursday that Jerguson and Sapphire Pointe LLC were in "flagrant disregard" of the court's February order compelling them to produce information and documents sought by an Arkansas bank seeking to collect on a loan.]]></description>
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		<title>Rep. Eddie Lumsden</title>
		<link>http://atlantaunfiltered.com/2013/05/14/rep-eddie-lumsden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 13:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Walls</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[transparency project]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Floyd County Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia General Assembly]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Barbara Massey Reece]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Eddie Lumsden]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lumsden is one of many freshmen lawmakers who rely heavily on other Republican legislators as campaign donors. He raised $36,300, or 60 percent of his entire 2012 campaign account, from other House Republicans.

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		<title>Rep. Kevin Tanner: Gave up state contract</title>
		<link>http://atlantaunfiltered.com/2013/05/13/rep-kevin-tanner-gave-up-state-contract/</link>
		<comments>http://atlantaunfiltered.com/2013/05/13/rep-kevin-tanner-gave-up-state-contract/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 18:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Walls</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[transparency project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[campaign finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dawson County Ga.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dawsonville Ga.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Denise Deal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial disclosure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Citizens Bank of Georgia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Kevin Tanner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Southern Magnolia Capital LLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tru-Vision Security Consultants]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tru-Vision Security Consultants, Tanner's private security business, gave up its six-figure contract with Lanier Technical College in January 2013 on the day he took the oath of office to serve as a state legislator.

Tanner said he did his research and found Tru-Vision could have continued doing business with the college if it won a new contract through a competitive sealed-bid process. "However," he wrote in a Jan. 14 letter to a university official, "I feel it best that I turn this work over to another company to avoid any appearance of impropriety."]]></description>
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		<title>Rep. Tom Dickson</title>
		<link>http://atlantaunfiltered.com/2013/05/10/rep-tom-dickson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 01:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Walls</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[transparency project]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Georgia Beer Wholesalers Association]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dickson, who retired in 2003 as Whitfield County school superintendent, has stayed busy since then as a part-time legislator and as chairman of Georgia United Credit Union, which has become one of Georgia's largest, quadrupling in size in the last decade.

Georgia United converted from a federal- to a state-chartered institution in 2010. Soon thereafter, it merged with six other credit unions, including the State Employees Credit Union, making potential members of all employees of state government, state universities and Georgia's 159 county governments. ]]></description>
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		<title>Rep. Howard Maxwell</title>
		<link>http://atlantaunfiltered.com/2013/05/07/rep-howard-maxwell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 18:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Walls</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When he wasn't riding his Harley, Maxwell, an Allstate insurance agent, has chaired the House Audits, Retirement and Regulated Industries committees. His service since 2005 on the Insurance Committee, though, has attracted the lion's share of his political donations. Roughly half of the $200,000 raised over the years by his campaign committee has come from insurance and health-care interests.

Collectively, Maxwell's fellow board members at Georgia Heritage Bank top his donor list from other interests. A 2009 federal cease and desist order accused the Dallas, Ga.-based community bank of employing risky lending practices under lax board supervision.]]></description>
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		<title>April 29 &#8211; May 5, 2013</title>
		<link>http://atlantaunfiltered.com/2013/05/05/april-29-may-5-2013/</link>
		<comments>http://atlantaunfiltered.com/2013/05/05/april-29-may-5-2013/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 14:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Walls</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Incentives sometimes don&#8217;t deliver promised jobs for Ga. State never appoved $280K in renovations at college president&#8217;s house Does this mayor own a town? Atlanta&#8217;s water needs cited in plan to pump water from another aquifer into Flint River Profs say Young Harris College muzzled hazing scandal African-American residents sue Rochelle, Ga., over decades of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rep. Christian Coomer</title>
		<link>http://atlantaunfiltered.com/2013/05/02/rep-christian-coomer/</link>
		<comments>http://atlantaunfiltered.com/2013/05/02/rep-christian-coomer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 17:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Walls</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Christian Coomer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Coomer's most generous campaign donors include fellow legislators and a number of local businesses in his district. Since he ran for the House, though, proponents of free-standing surgery centers, including the Harbin Clinic in Rome, Cartersville surgeon Dr. John Perry, Resurgens P.C. and the Georgia Society of Ambulatory Surgery Centers, have given nearly $11,000, the largest bloc of campaign money that Coomer has collected from a single interest.

The Georgia Industrial Loan Association, represented by former Rep. Charlie Watts, treated Coomer to an $1,148, three-day weekend at The Shores Resort &#038; Spa in Daytona Beach, Fla., for its 2012 annual convention.]]></description>
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		<title>Rep. Rick Jasperse</title>
		<link>http://atlantaunfiltered.com/2013/05/02/rep-rick-jasperse-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 16:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Walls</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jasperse, a retired extension agent, has been a frugal campaigner, spending about $41,000 since 2010 to win three elections AND pay some of his legislative office expenses.]]></description>
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