{"id":141342,"date":"2025-01-17T03:50:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T03:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=141342"},"modified":"2025-01-17T03:50:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T03:50:59","slug":"incendiary-ga-senator-arrested-after-violating-ban-from-legislative-floor-in-place-until-he-apologizes-for-insulting-deceased-lawmaker-during-memorial-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=141342","title":{"rendered":"Incendiary GA Senator Arrested After Violating Ban from Legislative Floor in Place Until He Apologizes for Insulting Deceased Lawmaker During Memorial Service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/georgia-senator-arrested-after-defy-ban-entering-house-117761689\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC News<\/a>: A Georgia state senator who was previously banned from the state House chamber was arrested Thursday when he tried to enter the chamber for the governor&#8217;s state of the state speech and got into a shoving match with House employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">State Sen. Colton Moore, a Republican from Trenton, is among the chamber&#8217;s most right-wing members. He signaled Wednesday that he would seek a showdown when he called House Speaker Jon Burns, a fellow Republican, a \u201ctyrant\u201d on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The arrest is one of several examples of state officials trying to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tennessee-house-ban-hecklers-aa220e8c8c95f57d5f14e6536f28d196\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">restrain lawmakers or onlookers<\/a>&nbsp;as legislative sessions begin in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/colton-moore-david-ralston-republican-lawmaker-banned-a2e27d1e17a76b26cd899da86306b839\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Burns banned Moore<\/a>\u00a0from the House chamber last year after Moore denounced late House Speaker David Ralston on a day when Ralston was being honored and his relatives were watching. In a speech, Moore called Ralston \u201cone of the most corrupt Georgia leaders we&#8217;ll ever see\u201d over\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/general-news-e5b771cd0ab64ceaa15da11d0b45ed0a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allegations that Ralston improperly delayed court cases<\/a>\u00a0he handled as a lawyer. Burns called Moore\u2019s remarks \u201cvile\u201d when he announced the ban, saying it would remain until Moore apologized.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News: A Georgia state senator who was previously banned from the state House chamber was arrested Thursday when he tried to enter the chamber for the governor&#8217;s state of the state speech and got into a shoving match with House employees. State Sen. Colton Moore, a Republican from Trenton, is among the chamber&#8217;s most&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141343,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141342\/revisions\/141343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}