Category: Campaigns+Elections
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Write-On Carol Porter!
Twitter was aflutter yesterday with 140 character responses to Carol Porter’s written submission to the AJC regarding abortion. The real question we as Georgians need to ask is, “Do we want to truly decrease abortions or just turn out the vote on it?” To run under the banner “pro-life” and to legislate in a way…
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Let me try and put this as delicately as I can
When you have limited personal style, do not let your staff talk you into an event requiring an exceptional amount of, well something you severely lack. Case in point, this past weekend Sen. Blanche Lincoln was the guest of honor at a “Hats off for Lincoln” event sponsored by her campaign. Here is how CNN…
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Boob of the Week
This week’s award goes to Austin Scott, currently running against Jim Marshall. Now Scott is a candidate I would otherwise like, but he made such an idiotic statement about why he was running for congress instead of for Governor, I couldn’t let it pass. In the words of Jim Galloway, Scott claims “his family can…
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Our friend Scott Holcomb makes the following announcement…
SCOTT HOLCOMB QUALIFIES AS THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR GEORGIA HOUSE DISTRICT 82 ATLANTA, GA — May 19, 2009. Today, Scott Holcomb qualified as the Democratic candidate for Georgia House District 82. No Republican has qualified for the seat left vacant by the resignation of the current officeholder. Holcomb, an attorney and instructor at Georgia Tech’s…
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Not-Quite-Super Tuesday Election Thread
So glad Arlen Specter is gone. I’ve said he always seems like someone who was beat up everyday at school, finally got some power, but was still afraid of a bully. Democrats hold Murtha’s seat. Best Democrat and GOP candidate (for us) in Kentucky win. Bland Lincoln seems all but dead in Arkansas. We didn’t…