April 7, 2025 by Michael Gordon

The last day of the 2025 Georgia General Assembly legislative session (also known as Sine Die), started out like any other. An unusually large number of grassroots activists showed up to encourage their majority party legislators to “do the right thing” to pass what they considered to be good legislation (i.e. bills which give us less government, more transparency and accountability, and lower taxes), and to fix or reject what they considered to be bad legislation (i.e. any bills which give us more inflation/taxation and regulation, with less personal freedom).

We The People vs Georgia General Assembly

If the presidential election of 2024 demonstrated anything, it is that in spite of mockingbird media claims to the contrary, the majority of electors in most states of the union overwhelmingly disapprove of the extreme leftward direction in which our country has been consistently moving for many years, and that the majority of We the People emphatically want a return to the sweet-spot center of constitutionally limited government with real government transparency and accountability, sane foreign policy, and with lower taxes.

This movement of being fed-up with the unsustainable status-quo extreme-left policies applies in Georgia as much as anywhere in the entire USA. And Georgia is supposedly a RED state. However the Georgia General Assembly has done little if anything this year legislatively to reduce government regulation of education or healthcare, to secure our elections or our borders (i.e. remove illegals), to protect our natural rights, to reduce the size or scope of state government, or to lower our taxes. On the contrary, in Georgia, we are still moving in the wrong (left) direction.

Clues That Something was Afoot

Sine Die usually continues right up to midnight on day 40 (or later if the clocks are magically stopped) to enable the General Assembly to complete the People’s legislative business. But this year, the legislative work came to a grinding halt well-before the clock struck twelve.

The first clue that something was afoot was during the mid-afternoon when it became obvious to many present that there was a great deal of time and energy being spent on picture taking and speeches for appreciation, recognition, and memorial measures, and for legislation establishing cornbread as the state bread and Brunswick Stew as the state stew. Having attended the past several Sine Dies, it seemed to me that a kind of stalling tactic was taking place.

What was the meaning of Governor’s Message?

Finally, around 7:30 pm the governor showed up to speak to the entire House chamber. I happened to be one of those sitting in the gallery above all these public servants at the time, able to witness the grand performance.

On the surface, this speech seemed to be simply for the purpose of expressing his gratitude for the passage of a tort reform bill which the governor obviously wanted. He even mentioned that the passage of this bill saved the legislators the trouble of having a special session called just to deal with the issue of tort reform. Most everyone laughed. But was this really just a joke, or was it the governor’s way of bragging that he would have punished the Assembly if they did not comply with his wishes? After all, representative Vance Smith lost his full-time job when he voted against the governor on this tort reform bill.

This got me thinking about what might be the real reason the governor made his show-stopping appearance to the House chamber at that moment during Sine Die.

Stopping the People’s Business before the Day was Over

Soon after the governor left the House chamber, the House gutted a very good election bill (HB-397). Apparently in response to this, the Senate adjourned early as an act of protest against this insult.

Since no changes to this bill could be considered now that the Senate adjourned, this effectively forced the House to either pass the bill as the Senate had proposed or put the House gutted bill on hold until next year when the Senate could respond. Mass confusion ensued and the House eventually adjourned. The final result was that nothing more could be done on Sine Die since the People’s business was stopped cold!

Who Do They Work For?

Was this the intention of our “republican” governor? It was well known that the governor did not want major election reform including such changes as hand-marked paper ballots, counted manually in the precinct on election day. Is it just a coincidence that the chaos erupted soon after the governor’s visit? Who does the General Assembly work for anyway… the governor or the People?

Regardless of the stated intentions of the governor and leadership of both chambers, the result was clear – the People lost out to special interests once again!

Sine Die 2025 could have reflected the national movement of reform back to the political center. Instead it demonstrated the opposite – more government regulation (e.g. HB-268), continued failure to ensure honest and transparent elections (e.g. failure to pass HB-397, SB-175, SB-214, SB-303), more government spending (e.g. HB-67, HB-68), and more corporate welfare (e.g. SB-144).

Grassroots Republican Reflection

The best that could happen as a result of the failed leadership demonstrated on Sine Die is that the grassroots republicans finally realize that the RINO republicans in our executive and legislative branches are more dangerous than democrats because at least with democrats we know what we are fighting against. With RINOs, too many of us remain complacent while they take us down the same left-wing road to disaster as the democrats. Because RINOs move us left slower, we do not realize we are being boiled alive until we are too weak to jump out of the boiling pot.

Sine Die 2025 demonstrated clearly the only way we can redirect away from our current trajectory toward disaster is first by admitting that our state is run by RINOs who consistently sell out the People to special interests. Only then will we be able to take a meaningful stand against the pathetic RINO leadership that keeps selling us out, replacing them with better republican servants who will restore constitutionally limited government, finally providing us with meaningful government transparency and accountability and lower taxes.

The Hope for Reform

I wish I could say this is not just a republican concern, but the democrats are already so far left of center that they cannot help us return to sanity. In the meantime, our only hope is to reform the republican party in Georgia to remove the RINOs from their current position of dominance. Only then can we hope to elect strong-willed true republican leaders who are committed to restoring limited government and eliminating the government sponsored corporate welfare system (i.e. fascism) that is threatening our republican state and nation.

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