Kemp taps former Cobb candidate to Georgia utility regulator
By JEFF AMYJuly 21, 2021 GMT
ATLANTA (AP) Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is naming businessman Fitz Johnson to fill a vacancy on the state Public Service Commission.
Kemp on Wednesday announced he would tap Johnson, a Republican who ran unsuccessfully for the Cobb County Commission last year, to fill a vacancy on the commission created when Kemp on Tuesday named commissioner Chuck Eaton to fill a superior court vacancy in Fulton County.
The commission regulates private, for-profit utilities including Georgia Power Co. and Atlanta Gas Light Co., meaning its decisions affect the pocketbooks of millions of Georgians.
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July 16, 2021
Esther Schrader
Their jobs at the trampoline park earned Constance and Jermaine Summers just enough to get by.
Working for $12 an hour, the couple could squeeze out enough money to continue renting their tiny mobile home in an Atlanta suburb, along with monthly payments on the eight-year-old car they drove with care. Their children, ages 12 and 13, had friends and space to play in the mobile home community where they lived. When tips came their way, the couple could buy the occasional treat for their kids.
But since last March, the family has lost almost everything.
As the pandemic raged, the trampoline park went dark and they were laid off. At first, they got unemployment benefits. Then, with no explanation, their unemployment payments stopped coming. The family was evicted. Because the one-bedroom efficiency apartment they moved into does not accept pets, they had to give their beloved family dog to a local fire station.
Earlier by Paul Kersey:
There are certain moments that stay with you forever. A group of us were in an upscale restaurant in Atlanta on July 15 2011 when one of the women got the text. Writing exactly ten years later, I still can see the tears streaming down her face as she read out the news that a girl she knew from high school and college had been murdered earlier in the day. “Brittney Watts was the most caring person I ever knew,” she said, sobbing uncontrollably, her blue eyes reddening with the tears. It was a moment made all the more depressing a few years later, when it emerged Nkosi Thandiwe had targeted Brittney Watts and two other white girls solely because he was black and they were white. Brittney was an early victim of the anti-white pedagogy that has now metastasized into Critical Race Theory. Why wasn’t her death enough to stop this happening?
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