What Chris Matthews Learned in Washington
“This Country,” a new memoir from the host of “Hardball,” speaks volumes about the state of political punditry.
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Former
MSNBC host Chris Matthews has made a career out of a certain image of American
politics. It’s a nostalgic vision of the heyday of bare-knuckled ward bosses in
and around city halls and orotund lords of patronage on Capitol Hill, of brash
Irish-American presidents and speakers of the house lofting insults at one
another in the press before adjourning for fraternal meals and drinks long into
the D.C. evening. It’s a brand of political combat as glorified stag-bonding, at
Butch Miller of Gainesville, who has been Senate president pro tem since 2018, said on Tuesday he will seek the GOP nomination for lieutenant governor.
The most powerful Republican in Georgia’s state Senate will seek the presiding role of lieutenant governor in 2022.
Butch Miller of Gainesville, who has been Senate president pro tem since 2018, said on Tuesday he will seek the GOP nomination for the statewide post.
“I want to protect the conservative policies and conservative values that are clearly working for Georgia,” Miller said in a phone interview with The Associated Press.
As president pro tem, Miller is the elected leader of the Senate Republican majority and is in some ways more powerful than current Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan. The 64-year-old Miller had said he would not challenge Duncan if the incumbent sought a second term. But Duncan announced this month that he’ll leave office after this term to lead GOP 2.0, a group intended to remake the Republican party in the post-Trump era.
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