Jimmy Carter recently offers an apology to the Jewish community and all of a sudden the race for David Adelman’s District 42 Georgia Senate seat is news on The Atlantic’s website…

Jimmy Carter wants the Jewish community to know that he understands Israel’s travails, and that this new understanding is not connected in any way to his grandson’s quest to represent a partially-Jewish district in Atlanta in the Georgia state legislature.

In a recent interview with JTA, the elder Carter said…

“Jason has a district, the number of Jewish voters in it is only 2 percent,” he said, chuckling.

District 42 Candidate Jason Carter responded to his grandfather’s apology with the following statement to JTA…

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As just announced on Twitter, the Decatur Book Festival is hosting a free preview screening of the film-adaption of “The Lovely Bones” at North DeKalb’s AMC theater on January 7th at 7pm.

If you’d like to snag yourself some free tickets, email Daren@verb.org.

Jill Chambers arguments against MARTA seem to rely on the assumption that NO ONE is paying attention.

“Every year they say they’re going over a cliff and there’s going to be a crisis, and yet MARTA’s running just fine,” Chambers said. “You can almost cut and paste the press release from the year before.”

I guess she’s forgotten about MARTA’s $25 million federal stimulus bailout this past year.  Perhaps we should just let the fed continue to pick-up MARTA’s tab from here on out.

Please.

Can we just drop the guise that there’s an actual debate going on here about how to best manage MARTA and get down to brass tacks?  If the MARTA acronym makes your stomach turn and you wish it would just hurry up and die already then let’s have THAT debate.

Why does the AJC continue to quote Chambers without challenging these baseless statements?  In an effort to write an “objective” piece they seem to abandon common sense.

h/t: Terminal Station