by Laura Baigert | Nov 18, 2021 | Battleground States, Georgia, The South
During the November 3, 2020 presidential election, Georgia law was broken in DeKalb County and, as such, the results should never have been certified, according to the chair of the Republican Party there. Marci McCarthy, head of the DeKalb County GOP since...
by Laura Baigert | Nov 16, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
The state’s revenues for October of $1.4 billion exceeded budgeted estimates for the month by $256.2 million, Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration Commissioner Butch Eley announced Friday. This October’s revenues exceeded last October’s by $238.9...
by Laura Baigert | Nov 15, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
HARTSVILLE, Tennessee – The Let’s Go Brandon Freedom Rally and Mask Burning, held at Trey Park in Hartsville Saturday with a very diverse group of a couple hundred people in attendance, featured godfather of conservative rap Bryson Gray. Gray is a Christian...
by Laura Baigert | Nov 11, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
THOMPSON’S STATION, Tennessee — The kick-off fundraising event for the Stand for Tennessee Political Action Committee (PAC), held Tuesday evening at the historic Homestead Manor in Thompson’s Station, featured constitutional conservative political office...
by Laura Baigert | Nov 7, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
The Sumner County Board of Commissioners is using redistricting required every 10 years following completion of the U.S. census in 2020 to potentially make significant and unprecedented changes to the county commission districts. Sumner County currently has 12...
by Laura Baigert | Nov 1, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
The legislation that emerged in Saturday’s early morning hours from the three days of the 112th Tennessee General Assembly’s Third Extraordinary Session provided a number of safeguards against COVID-19 mandates, but some legislators say concessions to...
by Laura Baigert | Oct 29, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
NASHVILLE, Tennessee – While more than 80 bills in total were filed in each chamber, it was a bill filed by Lt. Governor and Speaker of the Senate Randy McNally (R-Oak Ridge) and Speaker of the House Cameron Sexton (R-Crossville) that was amended to become an...
by Laura Baigert | Oct 28, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
The two chambers of the Tennessee General Assembly met Wednesday in floor session for less than an hour to organize for the Third Extraordinary Session of the 112th General Assembly, which will focus on COVID-related issues. Special Session III was called on...
by Laura Baigert | Oct 14, 2021 | Battleground States, Georgia, The South
In a revealing look at the November 2020 election, “Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech and the Democrats Seized Our Elections” number one best-selling author Mollie Hemingway’s new book released Tuesday explains how Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger...
by Laura Baigert | Oct 13, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
NASHVILLE, Tennessee – While citizens spoke about issues related to election integrity before the State Election Commission at its regularly scheduled meeting Monday at the William R. Snodgrass Tower, commission members were defensive and dismissive of the...
by Laura Baigert | Oct 10, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee (BSBCT) is pushing Critical Race Theory on its employees, even though the company serves a state that largely disagrees with these values. This is according to a long-term employee of BCBST, who provided information to The...
by Laura Baigert | Oct 9, 2021 | News
LEBANON, Tennessee – First-term and firebrand congresswoman from Georgia’s 14th District was the featured speaker at the Wilson County Republican Party Trump Day Dinner held Thursday at the Farm Bureau Exposition Center on Baddour Parkway in Lebanon with nearly...
by Laura Baigert | Oct 7, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee (BCBST), which received nearly $1 billion in vendor payments from the state of Tennessee during fiscal year 2021 related to state employee healthcare benefits and is one of the Managed Care Organizations handling the state’s...
by Laura Baigert | Oct 6, 2021 | Georgia, News, The South
In a case of what she says could be for no other purpose than vote stealing, a DeKalb County voter had her address changed and an absentee ballot requested for the November 3, 2020, presidential election, telling her story to The Georgia Star News exclusively...
by Laura Baigert | Oct 4, 2021 | Battleground States, Georgia, National, The South
Eleven months after the November 3, 2020 election, a review of transfer forms provided to The Georgia Star News in response to an open records request reveals that the Secretary of State’s office in Georgia is missing chain of custody documents for 6,995...
by Laura Baigert | Oct 4, 2021 | Battleground States, Georgia, National, The South
Eleven months after the November 3, 2020 election, a review of transfer forms provided to The Georgia Star News in response to an open records request reveals that the Secretary of State’s office in Georgia is missing chain of custody documents for 6,995...
by Laura Baigert | Sep 29, 2021 | Battleground States, Georgia, News, The South
A comparison of chain of custody documents for absentee ballots deposited into drop boxes during the November 2020 election made available separately by Georgia Public Broadcasting News (GPB News) and the Georgia secretary of state revealed that GPB News...
by Laura Baigert | Sep 25, 2021 | Battleground States, Georgia, News, The South
While DeKalb County officials have refused to indicate whether the extended leave of absence of Elections Director Erica Hamilton is job related, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said during a CNN interview that the leave was an outcome of an...
by Laura Baigert | Sep 23, 2021 | Georgia, News, The South
When the heads of the DeKalb County Board of Registration and Elections announced that effective September 9, 2021, Erica Hamilton was on an extended leave of absence from her role as director of DeKalb County Registration and Elections, noticeably missing from...
by Laura Baigert | Sep 19, 2021 | News
COLUMBIA, Tennessee – Confederate Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest was “put to rest for eternity” Saturday by the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) at the National Confederate Headquarters and Museum at Historic Elm Springs in Columbia, Tennessee. The general...
by Laura Baigert | Sep 13, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
LEBANON, Tennessee – The younger son of 45th President of the United States, Eric Trump, told The Tennessee Star in an exclusive interview after a 9/11 commemoration event in Lebanon, Tennessee on Saturday, that he is not concerned about elections in safe red...
