Dear Atlanta media folks,
Ya’ll need to lay off Republican Governor candidate John Oxendine. The continuous spinning of corruption conspiracies is just out of control. The Ox has served brilliantly as our State’s Insurance Commissioner and has
championed policies aimed at protecting the interests of Georgia consumers and promoting a competitive market place.
The Ox deserves to be the Republican nominee for Governor.
In May 2009, when the AJC wrote about how he used his office as the State Insurance Commissioner to pimp money from those he regulated and the donations were illegal because they came from 2 insurance company executives who set up fake PACS was not very helpful with making sure the Ox wins the Republican nomination.
Everyone thought the Ox would fold up his tent, but instead he responded to the AJC’s frivolous attacks by saying:
Oxendine told the AJC that he wasn’t sure who gave him the PAC money, but said it was from business people, mostly in Alabama.
“It’s not like an oversight or I didn’t know what the law was,” he said. “We received it from completely different sources, and they are not common.”
Oxendine added later, “I don’t want you to think we had the intent of doing anything inappropriate.”
That my AJC friends is true Republican leadership – Oxendine was victimized by shady campaign contributors. He had zero knowledge that all the money came from the same address.
In September 2009, Jay Bookman’s calling Oxendine “delusional” for wanting to build a tunnel through Atlanta’s neighborhoods also didn’t help the situation. C’mon those are strong Oxendine voters who live in the proposed tunnel’s path – voters in Virginia-Highland, Candler Park, Inman Park and East Atlanta neighborhoods. Why does the AJC think that Oxendine will hurt his own supporters? No way! Oxendine is proposing the tunnel idea “because no one’s really had the vision.” until he came along. Under Ox’s astute vision my home in East Atlanta will be bulldozed so Atlantans can reduce 5 minutes off their morning commute. And what is wrong with that? I can see the halo of light around Ox’s head as the transportation gods smile upon him.
In October 2009, WXIA broke the story about Ox’s daddy “retiring” from his position as a Gwinnett County judge. Something about his daddy not realizing that he couldn’t be the lawyer on a land deal for well connected folks who were selling land to Gwinnett County. Yeah somehow the Ox’s daddy didn’t remember that he couldn’t practice law on the side while he was a sitting Judge. Hmmm…who knew about that crazy and outdated stipulation?
A few days later, WXIA continued their pile on and the Ox’s daddy was forced to resign his board seat on a nonprofit because of another quid pro quo deal gone bad. Oh what’s that saying…the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Right before Christmas 2009 when the Ox was ready to spend some quality time with his family, the pesky reporters over at WSB squealed about the Ox taking lavish trips with a campaign contributor who just happened to also ask Ox’s state office to help with him a personal matter. C’mon WSB why ya’ll gotta be all up in Ox’s trips and stuff? I mean the Ox’s staff did say that he returned the travel expense money back to his State office although they lost the paperwork to show proof. But hey we can trust the Ox’s staff because they are following the orders and actions of the Ox himself.
As soon as the new year began, the AJC is back again reporting on the Ox and the “accidental” shooting that occurred while he was hunting with his boys. Geesh AJC it was just a hunting trip set up by the Dick Cheney travel agency.
Seriously, did the AJC really need to get all mighty and force the DNR to actually investigate the incident? That was so not necessary. Once again the AJC just had to make the link that the Ox was actually hunting on land owned by the insurance company guy that he swore he didn’t really have a relationship with. Coincidences people…move along…nothing shady happened.
And now the AJC is reporting that Oxendine is strong arming a fellow Republican politician. Seriously AJC, the Ox wasn’t putting any pressure on Congressman Westmoreland, he was just offering some friendly advice “just in case” the media got wind that Westmoreland was being investigated about a failed Georgia bank. That doesn’t sound like strong arming to me. Can we really trust a GPB reporter who says the Ox gave him the tip about the Westmoreland investigation? C’mon with the trusting of GPB, for pete’s sake GPB has to beg to the public to fund their programming and are held accountable by the people.
As the Ox says “If anyone is trying to Monday make politics out of this, it’s not me, it’s the congressman”. Yeah, it’s the Congressman who is the trouble maker, I mean that dude doesn’t even know the Ten Commandments and the AJC and GPB are taking his word about the conversations.
So I’m asking the Atlanta media to please lay off of John Oxendine. Stop insinuating that he’s not ethical or is pandering to the crazy right wing of his Party. As the Ox said in his most recent email to supporters:
In case you think we are getting ahead of ourselves, Rasmussen finds that “Oxendine holds a wide lead in the 2010 Republican Primary.”
The people of Georgia need John Oxendine to become the Republican nominee for Governor. Viva Oxedine.
And when this happens, we Democrats, will gladly trounce his ass in November. Democrats need Oxendine to win the Republican nomination because he is the poster child for poor leadership and questionable ethics which embody the Georgia Republican party.
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