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Rumors, Moving, Shaking and Fun

O hai guise! Things will never be the same around here.

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Spoke with a top Democratic elected official the other day about the races that currently have gaping holes where Democrats need to be…

Let’s go to the big one… Michael Thurmond is “looking at the Senate last I heard” my source said. So who would replace Thurmond at LC? Darryl Hicks apparently. That would set up the first race between two African Americans for a statewide office in Georgia. Did we have someone running to replace Melvin Everson? A quick Google search finds only Republicans running.

Terry Coleman needs to make up his damn mind. Not a direct quote but the sentiment was there. Lots of Democrats are getting antsy over Coleman’s indecision. Most notably J.B. Powell who will run if Coleman doesn’t. I had heard rumors about Coleman switching parties but apparently that was the first my source had heard of that. Not sure if Powell has a replacement in mind for his seat.

No news about any of the PSC seats but somehow I doubt we’ll contest any of those and if we do, I have more doubts that we’ll have strong challengers.

I know nothing about any candidates for either of our special elections.

The venerable John Lewis also has two challengers, one is an independent, the other a Republican.

We’ve only got three weeks now for moves to be made.

What do YOU know?

EDIT: One thing I forgot to add is I know Tim Golden wanted to run for Lite Gov (although this was back when it was an open seat). Anyone know if he’s changed his mind?

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21 responses to “Rumors, Moving, Shaking and Fun”

  1. Jules Avatar
    Jules

    Poor Tommy Irvin. The man is the longest serving elected official in the country, and is tied with Castro for longest in the world.. Seriously we can’t find ANYONE to run in this seat..

    Paging Rand Knight.. oops can’t believe I typed that.

  2. Keith Avatar
    Keith

    I spoke with Terry Coleman when he appeared with Roy Barnes up in Taylor County back in Feb & he st this point in time says he will “NOT” run for Ag Commissioner.

    J.B. Powell (D-Blythe) is rumored to be looking at running for Ag if Coleman doens’t run for AG. Coleman will not switch parties, so let’s put that rumor to rest.

    I’ll keep an eye on DuBose Porter for Ag Commissioner. He may or may not qualify to run for governor & the legislative session is hurting porter’s hcnaces for governor.

    Darryl Hicks would run for Labor if Thurmond does jump to a higher office. Hicks, himself told me at the same event up in Taylor County along with Roy Barnes says he will jump to Labor if Thurmond does run for Senate or congress.

    It makes sense if Carl Camon would run for State School Superintendent since his background is in education, or State Rep. 176 seat down replacing Jay Shaw. Jason Shaw, who is Jay’s son will run as a independent & then in 2010 switch to the republican party, so that race, as well as the State School Superintendent makes sense for camon right now.

    As for Mike Thurmond, he should stay at Labor Commisisoner. If not then he should aim for Paul Broun’s seat. He’ll beat Broun head to head. Broun is a arch-conservative, outside the mainstream republican that can be had depending who is the candidate up there.

  3. J.M. Prince Avatar
    J.M. Prince

    Thanks Tim, Nothing I’ve not told all of ’em time & time again, but I work with the materials that I’m sent too. JMP

  4. TimC Avatar
    TimC

    JM, running for state house is not to be taken lightly, it’s a huge time committment, Many of the trainings offered by groups are on the weekends, so candidates will have to make the effort to go to where the trainings are. Most are in Atlanta, but not all.

    The House Caucus is working on trainings around the state for qualified candidates after May1, the extra extra long session is making it difficult to get planning done.

  5. J.M. Prince Avatar
    J.M. Prince

    Dixie Carter, TN born actress, dead @ 70.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/10/dixie-carter-dead-actress_n_533100.html

    JMP

  6. J.M. Prince Avatar
    J.M. Prince

    Tim, That’s Jerry Nally going for HD12 from our sliver of it here in Bartow Co.. So how might ‘newer candidates’ get trained up outside of webinars? My guys are constantly MIA on those due to work requirements. And yes, as I tell everyone we need more amenable retired millionaires running, but they seem to be mostly Rethugs. Thanks, JMP

  7. Chris Huttman Avatar
    Chris Huttman

    sndeak, curse you and your county that reports absentee and early voting by precinct, giving you such precision!

    only slightly kidding with my gwinnett jealousy, next year will be awesome when every county does it this way.

    props to gwinnett, one county where they always have a candidate in every winnable seat and even those that aren’t winnable. now if only henry (hd 109) and douglas (hd 67) get their act together this year, that’s two more potential pickups in quickly trending districts.

  8. TimC Avatar
    TimC

    102 has been tough, 103 – alan will be a great candidate, we have a very decent shot of picking that seat up along with Melvin Everson’s seat (Steffini Bethea). Yay Gwinnett!

    We did manage to field a candidate for the special election in HD 12, yeah i know it’s a strong GOP seat, but it’s also a special election and Jerry Neal is going to run tough with a lot of family support.

    I could go on and on, but i’ve literaly spent dozens of hours over the past 45 days making phone calls into the known or suspected Open seats in the State House this year. It is NOT easy finding potential candidates, getting them to trainings, and then getting a campaign ramped up. But we are trying, and by we I mean Rep. Benfield, Don Weigel (ED at the State House Caucus) and Rep. Dukes, and moi.

    I’m on most of the major Democratic group email lists for campaign trainings, but if you see something that I might have missed, please feel free to forward me training opportunities, i’d greatly appreciate it as we can promote to our new recruits.

    Onward and Upward…

  9. J.M. Prince Avatar
    J.M. Prince

    Ed, Is that an old flip top can opener for your avatar? In any case with short of a week’s notice we got up our usual kamikaze squad to run for Tom Graves vacated HD12 in that Special Election for Bartow, Gordon (mainly) & Pickens; he’s Jerry Nally of Rydal Ga. [ PO Box 25, Ga. 30171]. We may well have another candidate to try and take out Sen. Bill Heath in SD 31 too. But over all not a particularly friendly year as everyone’s broke or near to it. JMP

  10. Daniel Fullerton Avatar
    Daniel Fullerton

    Welcome, Ed. Will you be liveblogging the YDG Convention this year?

  11. Daniel Fullerton Avatar
    Daniel Fullerton

    Welcome, Ed. Will you be liveblogging the YDG Convention this year?

  12. sndeak Avatar
    sndeak

    Some Gwinnett Updates..

    Of course we may end up with more candidates that we have never heard of during qualifying.

    HD 103 – Allan Burns IS running again. yea! He got 45.6% against Casas last time. If this is an open seat, we have a great chance of picking it up.

    HD 106 – Yes, Steffini Bethea is running. Tough race but we can take this open seat too. Still wonder if Melvin gets cold feet and falls back into this race.

    BOC District 2- Rob Byars running in an open seat

    BOC District 4 – Mark Williams. Obama got 49.7% in this district. Our best shot at getting a BOE seat.

    Congressional District 7 – Just waiting for the official announcement from Doug Heckman. I’m about 90% sure he is running again.

    Still looking for some strong candidates for SD 9 and HD 102.

  13. JerryT Avatar
    JerryT

    OK, it doesn’t suck. Welcome Ed!

  14. JerryT Avatar
    JerryT

    I thought Hicks was going for SoS? Whatever he does, he better start raising money for it.

    Otherwise, this post sucks.

  15. CatherineAtlanta Avatar
    CatherineAtlanta

    Welcome to BfD, Ed! So glad you’ve joined the fray.

  16. innerredneckexposed Avatar
    innerredneckexposed

    Steffini Bethea is running for Everson’s seat.

    The soon-to-be-cluster that is the Fulton Commission race needs a separate post.

  17. Mel Avatar
    Mel

    There will be one and maybe two seats open on the Fulton County Commission in 2010. Rumor is that at least one of our intown State Reps might jump over to fill Nancy Boxill’s shoes. I’ve been hearing for months that Tom Lowe will also retire this year, but he hasn’t announced.

  18. Jules Avatar
    Jules

    Is the question about Terry Coleman that he can’t decide to run, or that he can’t decide to run as a “D”?

    Also, where do these characters think they’re going to get the time and money to run if they wait till qualifying to decide? Seriously, a statewide race in 2 1/2 months? Seems a bit of climb to me.

  19. innerredneckexposed Avatar
    innerredneckexposed

    Or can he…

  20. innerredneckexposed Avatar
    innerredneckexposed

    Dammit. The Thunder can’t hide behind The Thunder’s suckpuppets anymore.

  21. Ed Avatar
    Ed

    WTF is this sh*t? And who the hell is this tool?

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