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Here’s a head-scratcher for you: What happens when the leadership of a political party becomes so extreme, so out of touch with its voters, that it alienates many of its own activists and elected officials? And what happens when some of those officials set up a parallel infrastructure that lets them circumvent the party for campaign essentials such as fund-raising and voter turnout? At what point does this party become mostly a bastion of wingnuts, spiraling into chaos and irrelevance?

The prospects of a federal government divided between Democrats and Republicans who are barely on speaking terms has special interest and industry groups turning to state governments to make progress on policy and legislative fights over the next two years.

WHILE MANY pundits, both local and national, have been fixated on the rematch between Gov. Brian Kemp and Stacey Abrams or the undercard match of Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker, Georgia business leaders and political observers are about to turn the page and focus on the 2023 session of the Georgia General Assembly. Come January, over 50 new legislators will be welcomed to the historic seat of state government and the issues they will face are plentiful