Civil Rights Era leader and Georgia Representative John Lewis has dropped his support of Hillary Clinton in favor of Barack Obama. Lewis, who represents Georgia's  5th district (most of Atlanta proper) said, in a statement:

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OK. I'm joining The Wild Hunt, that phantasmically mad pursuit for what the candidates really stand for. I join the Raging Host of political pun-twits and common-taters who, after twenty Democratic debates still aren't quite sure what the real differences between Barack and Hillary are.

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I've been waiting, hopefully, for the voices of our "Black leadership" to come out strongly against this brutal killing.

Nothing. This from The Root:

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Hat tip to The Bilerico Project for snagging this great post from Senator Obama. Here's a snippet:

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This from NPR

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OK...I am not really one who will rock the boat a lot
(maybe I do when you ask people who know me ...) but from what
I have seen in the last few days really opened my eyes.

Being in Real Estate I am very interested what is happening with
Indianans Taxes and with the assessment system and I was in the
fortunate situating to be able to talk to Cheryl Musgrave

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I am reading the cliff notes of this bill and I am thinking if any of those Legislators ever had a rental unit themselves....….I bet not.

It will make it a Class B infraction if a landlord fails to:
(1) Properly install a smoke detector at the time a tenant
moves in; or
(2) Repair an inoperative hard wired smoke detector within