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Category: DPG

  • For those keeping score…

    * I am helping Chuck Pardue Chuck Pardue turned in his required signatures today in order to be placed on the ballot as an Independent for State Senate District 23. Chuck needed 3961 to get on the ballot and turned in over 6700. Now we wait until the signatures are verified which we are told could…

  • What Senate Race?

    I just watched the gubernatorial debates. Not that the two hours were anything other than completely rivioting, but I’m stuck on the responses of the Democrats to the question about which Republican office-holder they most admired, Both Baker and Poythress pick Sen. Johnny Isakson. Maybe they both missed the bulletin that their colleague, Mike Thurmond,…

  • Put Up Or Shut Up, and I Mean Put Up An Organizer

    The Democratic Party of Georgia is already cranking up for their 2010 Coordinated Campaign to increase Democratic Turnout on November 2, 2010. You probably already saw the video from the DPG talking about the campaign, but there’s more than that. DPG is hiring organizers that will be placed across the state to lead teams of…

  • 2012 Anyone?

    Yes, the primary is days away, and soon after we’ll all be focused on the November races. But, today, Georgia’s WIN List is looking ahead to 2012, training women who live in trending districts where no candidate is running this cycle as well as training women who are running this cycle. We all know that…

  • Democratic Party of Georgia’s Call Center

    In last night’s WXIA broadcast, they did a segment on the Gubernatorial Race and featured Eric Gray, Communications Director for the DPG, and also show pictures from the call center where DPG Staff & Volunteers make calls for hours a day trying to identify and strengthen our VoteBuilder numbers and accuracy. Hats off to these…

  • HCR vote blowback?

    Bad votes = less money from his colleagues. Only 5 members have given: That is in stark contrast to Barrow’s support at this time in the 2006 and 2008 cycles. In 2006, 53 Democratic lawmakers had contributed to his war chest. In 2008, the figure was 22. Barrow will still cruise, but the trend line…