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.

 

Collin Kelley is the executive editor of Atlanta Intown, Georgia Voice, and the Rough Draft newsletter. He has been a journalist for nearly four decades and is also an award-winning poet and novelist.