Residents in Candler Park and Cabbagetown found Ku Klux Klan recruiting flyers tucked under their windshields and posted around the neighborhoods over the weekend, according to WSB. The flyers listed a North Carolina phone number, and a KKK grand wizard returned the Channel 2 reporter’s phone call and said it was part of a”national flyer drive” to recruit new members.
Leave your guns at home when you come out to vote in the primary run-off election on July 22. According to a report in the AJC, only law enforcement and certified security officers are allowed to have a gun within 150 feet of a polling place. The new “guns everywhere” bill that went into effect on July 1 did not change that part of Georgia law.
LGBT rights group Georgia Equality is allying on State Attorney General Sam Olens not to defend the ban on same-sex marriage, according to a report in Creative Loafing. With state bans on marriage equality falling to the wayside, Georgia Equality officials urged Olens to not get involved in a pricey defense and join the other 19 states that now allow it.