August 16, 2022
Carter calls for attorney general’s impeachment
Rep. Earl “Buddy” Carter dropped a bombshell in his weekly newsletter, saying that the Merrick Garland-authorized search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate for allegedly mishandled and classified U.S. government documents was a “political stunt.”
Wade Herring, a Savannah lawyer who is running to unseat Carter in in November, described Carter’s call for Garland’s impeachment as “hypocrisy” and “toadyism”— the latter presumably referring to the congressman’s widely-known loyalty to the former president. In a statement Herring implored Carter to retract what he called his “false statements” about the Mar-a-Lago search.
Writes Craig Nelson: Carter’s robust endorsement of transparency and the rule of law six years ago, in the case of Hillary Clinton’s emails, was notably absent in his weekend demand for Garland’s ouster.
Also missing in his tilting-at-the-windmills call for Garland’s impeachment was much deference to two traditional Republican planks — law-and-order and aggressive defense of U.S. national security — both of which unauthorized disclosure of America’s secrets could imperil.
Warnock, Ossoff, Carter support health care staffing plan
In a victory for bipartisanship to address shared problems, Rep. Buddy Carter and Senators Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff joined last week to urge the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to bring more physicians, nurses, and emergency medical personnel to communities across Georgia.
“Hospitals have faced enormous stress due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including exacerbated workforce shortages,” Carter, Warnock, and Ossoff said in a letter to CMS administrator, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure. “According to data regularly reported by the Department of Health and Human Services, Georgia has consistently been in the top 10 states for critical staffing shortages.”
Under the program known as GA-STRONG (Georgia: Strengthening the Reinvestment of a Necessary Workforce), $746 million for teaching hospitals would be provided to create and expand statewide approaches to develop, stabilize and diversify the workforce at all levels of care.
Along with improving the staffing crisis, these additional funds would allow hospitals across the state to invest in programs that improve care in high priority areas, including maternal health and chronic disease management.
Ten other members of Georgia’s congressional delegation joined Carter, Warnock, and Ossoff in signing the letter.
‘A permanent reminder’
The Georgia Historical Society, together with the Tybee Human Rights Organization and the City of Tybee Island, Tuesday will dedicate a new Civil Rights Trail historical marker to honor those who carried out the Savannah Beach wade-ins in the 1960s.
On Aug. 17, 1960, 11 African American students were arrested on Tybee Island at Georgia’s first wade-in protesting the Whites-only public beaches. An extension of the Savannah Movement, the Savannah Beach wade-ins were planned and organized by the local NAACP Youth Council, under the leadership of W. W. Law.
The wade-ins were carried out until Savannah Beach and the city’s other public places were integrated by October 1963, eight months before the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
“This marker is a permanent reminder of the struggle by brave African-American students who protested inequality to achieve equality for all,” said Allen Lewis, vice president of the Tybee Island Historical Society.
The dedication will take place at 10 a.m., at the Walter Parker Pier and Pavilion on Tybee Island. For more information, please contact Keith Strigaro, director of communications at the Georgia Historical Society, at 912-651-2125 ext. 153 or kstrigaro@georgiahistory.com.
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