Wednesday, April 3, 2013
The Georgia Attorney General is an East Cobb resident.
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Wednesday, April 3
Georgia Attorney General and former Cobb Commission Chairman Sam Olens is the guest speaker at the Cobb Republican Party's monthly breakfast meeting on Saturday. The breakfast begins at 8:15 a.m., with the program to follow at 8:45 a.m. Admission is $3 per person, which includes coffee, and a full country breakfast is $7 more per person. The event takes place the Cobb GOP office at 799 Roswell Street in Marietta. For more information, please contact Cobb GOP chairman Joe Dendy at 770-820-6545.
Monday, October 22, 2012
Cobb school superintendent Michael Hinojosa and State Rep. Ed Setzler will appear at a PTSA-sponsored event next Monday.
Lassiter High School will be the venue next week for a public forum on HR 1162, a proposed charter school amendment to the Georgia Constitution that appears on the Nov. 6 general election ballot. The Lassiter PTSA and the Mountain View Elementary School PTA are sponsoring the forum, which begins next Monday, Oct. 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the Lassiter Theater. Lassiter is located at 2601 Shallowford Road in Northeast Cobb. State Rep. Ed Setzler (R-North Cobb), the head of the Cobb legislative delegation, will speak in favor of the amendment. It would allow the Georgia Department of Education to create a committee to approve charter school applications without the authorization of local school boards. Michael Hinojosa, the Cobb County School …
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Watch the Georgia Attorney General's remarks on Wednesday in Tampa.
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens had to share his one shining moment on the Republican National Convention stage Wednesday night. Along with his Florida counterpart, Pam Bondi, Olens criticized the Obama Administration's health care law as an example of government overreach, a prominent convention theme in Tampa and in the GOP campaign. They were among the Republican state attorneys general who filed suit against "Obamacare," which was ultimately upheld in a 5-4 vote by the Supreme Court. Olens, an East Cobb resident and former Cobb Commission Chairman, has been an early supporter of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who gives his acceptance speech tonight. Some of the reaction to the speech: Jim Galloway, AJC: "All in …
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
The former Cobb Commission Chairman speaks tonight at the Republican National Convention.
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Sam Olens appears to be ready for his moment in the national spotlight, after fine-tuning his remarks last night and rehearsing them on stage this morning. His moment will be far less than 15 minutes. And he won't have the podium to himself. But the former Cobb Commission Chairman and current Georgia Attorney General welcomes the opportunity to address delegates at the Republican National Convention in Tampa tonight. Around 8 p.m., Olens and Florida attorney general Pam Bondi will speak about federal government overreach, and what they claim is the expansion of government under President Obama. Olens was an early supporter of GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who will deliver his acceptance speech Thursday. Olens' fellow East …
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
The former Cobb Commission Chairman, now Georgia's Attorney General, was an early supporter of Republican nominee-in-waiting Mitt Romney.
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Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Sam Olens' national political profile has gotten a major boost. The former Cobb Commission Chairman, serving his first term as Georgia's Attorney General, has been chosen for a speaking role at the Republican National Convention later this month. The Atlanta Business Chronicle reported that the day and time of Olens' speech has not been announced. Olens was an early supporter of Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who will be formalized as the GOP presidential nominee at the convention in Tampa Aug. 27-30. In the summer of 2011, Olens and Romney appeared together in Smyrna on a campaign stop. Jim Galloway of the AJC speculates that Olens may speak on health care, since he led Georgia's legal challenge against President Obama's…
Friday, December 9, 2011
The Cobb County Board of Education approved a memorandum promising to comply with state laws on records and meetings without admitting past violations.
A Georgia senior assistant attorney general focused on the Cobb County Board of Education’s future rather than past “serious accusations” during a training session Thursday on open records and public meetings. Stefan Ritter said the allegations of open meetings violations weren’t bad enough to warrant more than the training and a memorandum of understanding to ensure compliance with state laws. “We did not think this was as egregious as some of the violations we’ve seen” elsewhere, Ritter told Patch. “Nonetheless, we look at this in a forward way. Our goal is not so much to punish people, but to seek compliance to the law.” The memorandum of understanding says that if no evidence of new open records or open meetings violations comes up in …
Thursday, September 1, 2011
A sampling of Cobb-area headlines for Thursday, Sept. 1.
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Thursday, September 1, 2011
For more about today's featured headlines, click the links below Olens Addresses East Cobb Civic Association Northeast Cobb Subdivision Plan Approved Bobby Cox Roots for the Underdogs
Former East Cobb Civic Assocation president and ex-Cobb commission chairman updated the status of state legal matters as Georgia's new attorney general Wednesday.
For Sam Olens, it was a speaking appearance very close to home. For old friends and supporters who helped him launch his public career, Wednesday's visit to the East Cobb Civic Association by Georgia's attorney general was a chance to catch up. Olens, a former ECCA president, updated members at the East Cobb Library of the status of major Georgia legislation, including immigration and health care reform, as well as water rights and other issues. "It's great coming home," said Olens, who left his post as Cobb commission chairman last summer to run for statewide office. He said he couldn't talk much about the upcoming Atlanta regional TSPLOST referendum, but neither could he resist discussing issues near and dear to the consensus-style …
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
The former Cobb commission chairman is the featured guest at Wednesday's East Cobb Civic Association meeting.
Former Cobb commission chairman Sam Olens is returning to his political roots Wednesday. Olens, an East Cobb resident who was elected Georgia's Attorney General last November, will be the featured speaker at the East Cobb Civic Association's monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the East Cobb Library, 4880 Lower Roswell Road. Olens also is a former president of the influential ECCA, which also was the springboard to electoral office for current East Cobb commissioner Bob Ott. Gingrey to hold Cobb town hall meeting U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey will conduct the second of two town hall meetings this week in Kennesaw on Thursday. The meeting takes place from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m at the Ben Robertson Community Center in Kennesaw. Gingrey, a …
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Sweeney's communications related to school calendar issue among those prompting letter from attorney general.
The Cobb County Board of Education is due to discuss a parent’s complaint that sparked a letter to the board from state Attorney General Sam Olens during tonight’s school board meeting at 7 at the Central Office at 514 Glover Street, Marietta. Parent Tricia Knor sent a complaint to Olens’ office June 27 about emails board Chairwoman Alison Bartlett of Post 7, Vice Chairman Scott Sweeney of Post 6, and members Kathleen Angelucci of Post 4 and Tim Stultz of Post 2 sent to one another using their private accounts. The email conversations discuss changing the school calendar back to the traditional calendar, board member seating arrangements, other board members and district personnel decisions, among other things. Knor’s complaint and the …
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11:51 pm on Saturday, July 21, 2012
So much for campaign promises of open government and listening to constituents! Thank you for bringing this to our attention! more ›