Patricia Murphy

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Just another day in the Ga. State House…🧸

The GOP’s “Battle of the Titans” vs. the Democrats’ “Great Race for Second Place”…@Bluestein and I are breaking down the latest from the wild Georgia governor’s race in today’s @politicallyga podcast. Listen here—> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pol…

Democrat Shawn Harris walks “the tightest tightrope” to flip Marjorie Taylor Green’s deep red Georgia district. ajc.com/politics/2026/…

With oil topping $110/ per barrel today, the Ga. House votes overwhelmingly to suspend the state gas tax for 60 days. Now on to the Senate. The tax is 33 cents a gallon, and 37 cents for diesel.

WARNER: Where is the authority for you to involve yourself in a domestic law enforcement activity in Georgia? TULSI GABBARD: I did not participate in a law enforcement activity WARNER: You were on the scene. Are the photos false? GABBARD: I was in Fulton County at the request of the president to observe the FBI's activities

Sam Nunn spent decades in the Senate during tumultuous times. I talked to him @ Iran, Congress and the nuclear threat. “It was a legitimate reason (to go to war)…Was war the best way, the only way? I don’t think so. I think diplomacy was still possible.” ajc.com/politics/2026/…

Delta CEO warns airfares are going up because of fuel prices. "“Everything was going great in the first couple months of the year, then a war breaks out." ajc.com/business/2026/…

Delta CEO Ed Bastian slams Congress for letting TSA funding lapse. ““It’s inexcusable that our security agents, front-line workers central to what we do, are not being paid. It’s ridiculous to see them used as political chips. We’re outraged.” ajc.com/news/2026/03/l…

GOP Senate hopeful Derek Dooley is the pod today. He said he supports the president, but he also didn’t sound like another “yes” man. Listen here—> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pol…

Playing the game- Rick Jackson attended a donor dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago hours after Trump lattacked Iran. Trump asked him to introduce himself to the group and explain why he’s running. “Mr. President, I’m going to be your favorite governor.” axios.com/2026/03/17/geo…

@NoahShachtman @samstein Congrats Noah!

Got a new gig ...

@RocketJonah @GeorgiaTech Lower floor of the library. They’ll even help you if your notebook gets stuck coming down (!!).

@MurphyAJC @GeorgiaTech I go here and have never seen this - what floor is it on?

Signs that you’re on a campus with serious students— the vending machine at the @GeorgiaTech library doesn’t sell candy, it sells notebooks and glue sticks. (I got a notebook!)

Well when you put it that way….

With their feud hotter than ever, how did Burt Jones end up in Rick Jackson’s latest campaign ad saying, “Thank you, Rick, for all you do for Georgia”? All the details in the @ajc politics newsletter—> ajc.com/politics/2026/…

On March 15, 1964, Sen. Richard Russell of Georgia took his pro-filibuster message to the New York Times Sunday Magazine - as the Senate was debating a major civil rights bill. "It is not an abuse of freedom of debate in the Senate to speak at length," wrote Russell.

In today’s @ajc politics newsletter: What the numbers say about the race to replace Greene ajc.com/politics/2026/…

Rick Jackson mailers already hammering Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms in the governor’s race in West Cobb. This campaign is already at a 10.

One last column on MTG. —> ajc.com/politics/2026/…

Harris, Fuller headed to runoff in race to replace Greene ajc.com/politics/2026/…