Morgan County

I'm your host, Trey Bailey, and today we are joined in the studio by a candidate for the Georgia Senate seat representing District 42.

District 42 is all of Morgan County, most of Newton County, half of Walton County, including Social Circle and Loganville, portions of Henry County, like Ola all the way up to McDonough, encompassing what has a population of over 200,000 people.

Now, our guest today probably needs no introduction since he's been senior pastor of the largest church in our community for nearly 30 years.

Welcome to the Town Square Podcast, Reverend Dr.

I don't think we are, it's a part of the social contract, right? I think it's important that these things be seen as sacred trust.

I think it's an extreme view.

We've been on a listing tour, Trey, and we were out in Morgan County.

Morgan County is a top 10 school system in the state.

A young woman of about 16 leaving her mother's household in 1811 has a small number of plausible destinations and marriage is the most common.

The other end of the bracket is for March 1816, when the Morgan County Court of Ordinary appointed John Dawson, guardian of the person and property of Samuel C. Cessna, orphan of Samuel Cessna deceased.

Dawson was the third man to hold that role after the Roystons in 1808 and Benjamin Baldwin in 1814.

Guardianship of a minor's person and estate was not a job handed to strangers.

So, you know, I found this over and over again that many times, whether it's just because the county clerk didn't keep good records or something happened in the county, sometimes you just have a dearth of records for a couple of years.

And so it seems like this gap of record keeping across 1812 and 1813 is very likely when the marriage could have taken place if it took place in Greene County.

But then the other place that they could have married was Morgan County because the family migrated to the next door Morgan County sometime in those, you know, between 1810 and 1820.

And in Morgan County, the marriage is survive only in book A, which is 1808 to 1850.

They knew that they were going to face some kind of backlash, but I don't think they had any idea that it was going to be so widespread.

This is the current drinking water in Morgan County, Georgia.

The only difference between between the clean water and this was that data center.

One of the characteristics of fascism is the merging of the private sector and the state.

Yeah.

You go way down to the southern part of the county, that's a long distance in Oregon.

Same way here, where I live in New Bern, trying to go down the Rocky Plain, long ways.

But we can meet somewhere in the middle.

Yes.

Well, today we're joined in the studio by a candidate for U.S. Congress in District 10, which encompasses, now get this, it's like half of Newton County, but all of Jasper County, all of Morgan County, all of Walton County.

It's got Athens-Clarke County.

Good God.

By the way, I, I saw my friend Tyler Hooks last night.

He's the sheriff of Morgan County, Georgia.

Uh, Tyler Hooks, the sheriff of Morgan County, Georgia, should be everyone's hero.

I, I want you all to remember his name, Sheriff Hooks.

Sheriff Hooks has got his county sheriff's patrol to actively patrol the interstate to give tickets to people who drive slow in the left lane.

When people think about the impact AI data centers could potentially have on a community, they may recall a viral video in May where, as we just heard from Julia Tilton pointing to this one individual, U.S. Representative from New York, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, held up mason jars filled with a nasty-looking brown water.

I would say it kind of looked like doo-doo water, but you wouldn't pour into a house plant, never mind drink, In the video, AOC is confronting a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator about drinking water contamination in Morgan County, Georgia.

These mason jars certainly got people's attention.

And I don't know.

Did you drink this water, Grant, down there in Morgan County, Georgia? Have you ever been to Morgan County,

Georgia? Yeah, I know Morgan County well.

No, I did not drink the water.

I mean, what AOC was pointing out there— There's layers to that jar.