It’s fitting I guess that I stumbled into this story through the hatedoor of occupy democrats
Saw a lot of shoving by the doorkeepers but none by Senator Moore.
He was transported to and locked up in the Fulton County Jail.
This is his statement after he was released.
…On X on Wednesday, Moore said that he would defy the ban to attend the Georgia General Assembly’s joint session and Gov. Brian Kemp’s State of the State Address.
“I will NEVER back down,” Moore wrote. “I will ALWAYS speak the truth and represent the people of Northwest Georgia as their trusted America First Senator.”
The senator called Burns a “tyrant” and said that the ban was censorship of his voice as an elected official.
Moore had previously been kicked out of the Senate Republican caucus after attacking fellow Republicans for not taking up a special session in 2023 to impeach Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis over the county’s indictment of President-elect Donald Trump…
UPDATE 01/17/24
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia‘s House speaker said Friday that he’s lifting his ban on a state senator entering the House chamber, a day after Sen. Colton Moore was arrested after he tried to enter for Gov. Brian Kemp’s state of the state speech.
The decision came after state Senate and Republican Party leaders lined up to support Moore, a Republican who has criticized members of his own party for being insufficiently pure or insufficiently supportive of Donald Trump.
The arrest is one of several examples of state officials trying to restrain lawmakers or onlookers as legislative sessions begin in 2025. With many taking pictures and video, it quickly became the flashiest…
…Burns, a Republican from Newington, said Friday in a statement that Moore’s desire to “cause a disturbance and gain notoriety in the press broke longstanding rules and precedents of decorum that each member of the General Assembly has a responsibility to uphold.” But he said he’d admit Moore for joint sessions without an apology because Ralston wouldn’t have wanted the legislature’s work to be hindered.
“For this reason, the Ralston family has expressed to their family here in the House that they desire for our chamber to resume business as normal — with all members of the General Assembly present — for any future joint sessions with or without the apology they and the House deserve,” Burns said.