Senate culture war legislation shut down by House in final hours of 2024 session

The hosts talk to WABE’s Sam Gringlas about the issues that won final approval, and those that went down in flames as the 2024 session came to an end in the early hours of Friday morning. 

Then, Andrew Morse, president and publisher of the AJC joins the podcast to discuss why he’d led the charge to save Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp from mining companies setting up operations nearby. And the panel discusses the failure of the legislature to act on a bill that would have provided a temporary halt on mining near the swamp. 

And, it’s Friday, so the hosts take questions from the “Politically Georgia” listener mailbag and give their picks for who’s up and who’s down this week. 

LINK TO TOPICS 

Key measures fail in final hours of session 

Here's why the session went into the early morning hours 

Sine die: a tale of two chambers 

Andrew Morse: Swamp must be protected 

Lawmakers fail to pass Okefenokee protection bill 

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Executive Producer- Shane Backler 

Producer- Natalie Mendenhall 

Engineer- Matt McWilliams 

Editor- Devan Kortan 

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