Bob Barr's PAC's 5% Problem

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Monday May 19, 2008 · 8:27 AM PDT

2008/05/19 · 08:27

Bob Barr's PAC, The Bob Barr Leadership Fund, is showing how Republicans and former Republicans really lead. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, BBLF has actually donated less than 5% of the 4.3 million dollars it has received in donations since 2003.

$125,000 went to federal campaigns and $81,875 state and local campaigns. The other $4,093,125 went to fund raising efforts.

"It costs money to raise money," Barr said.

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Tuesday May 13, 2008 · 6:04 AM PDT

2008/05/13 · 06:04

Cobb bar protested as racist for Obama T-shirts - from the AJC.

Marietta tavern owner Mike Norman says the T-shirts he's peddling, featuring cartoon chimp Curious George peeling a banana, with "Obama in '08" scrolled underneath, are "cute." But to a coalition of critics, the shirts are an insulting exploitation of racial stereotypes from generations past.

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Norman said those offended are "hunting for a reason to be mad" and insisted he is "not a racist."

Photo of shirt.

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Saturday February 02, 2008 · 12:27 PM PST

2008/02/02 · 12:27

Got a phone call minutes ago from Gallup! They were asking about my quality of life and presidential questions. I got on their list a while back answering a poll about the local newspaper and have been waiting years for a presidential poll! Finally!

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Tuesday January 29, 2008 · 7:17 AM PST

2008/01/29 · 07:17

My company has a table at the Jefferson Jackson Dinner at the World Congress Center. They held them until the last moment and nobody can go. Who would like a ticket or two? I have a number of pairs. Clinton and Edwards will be speaking. Max Cleland and John Lewis will be honored. Can you dress nice and behave respectably? Email me at gttim where the mail is hot!

Bridge Players Being Dixie Chicked!

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Wednesday November 14, 2007 · 6:41 AM PST

2007/11/14 · 06:41

From the NYTimes:

In the genteel world of bridge, disputes are usually handled quietly and rarely involve issues of national policy. But in a fight reminiscent of the brouhaha over an anti-Bush statement by Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks in 2003, a team of women who represented the United States at the world bridge championships in Shanghai last month is facing sanctions, including a yearlong ban from competition, for a spur-of-the-moment protest.

At issue is a crudely lettered sign, scribbled on the back of a menu, that was held up at an awards dinner and read, "We did not vote for Bush."

By e-mail, angry bridge players have accused the women of "treason" and "sedition."

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Tuesday September 11, 2007 · 9:28 AM PDT

2007/09/11 · 09:28

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution printed an opinion piece by Jeff Emmanuel of Redstate.com. It was about how we should support Bush's surge because it is working. His evidence:

In April and May of this year, and again from the beginning of August through the present, I have been embedded in some of the most kinetic combat zones in Iraq, observing Gen. David Petraeus' strategy from the ground level in several different locations. I have seen clear evidence of the strategy's effects on the situation there

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Friday November 10, 2006 · 9:59 AM PST

2006/11/10 · 09:59

I'll call him many other things.

WASHINGTON - Sen. Joe Lieberman, who won re-election as an independent, has a message for his Senate colleagues in the next Congress: Call me a Democrat.
The three-term Connecticut lawmaker defied party leaders when he launched his independent bid after losing to Democrat Ned Lamont in the August primary. During the campaign, he vowed to be an "independent-minded Democrat" if he were re-elected. In Tuesday's election, Lieberman won strong GOP support and given the closely divided Senate, Republicans are expected to court him.
So will he count as a Democrat or an independent who caucuses with the majority Democrats? In an e-mail message late Thursday, Lieberman spokesman Dan Gerstein said the senator will begin his new term as a Democrat.

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Tuesday October 17, 2006 · 6:04 AM PDT

2006/10/17 · 06:04

I went to my local ATM this morning to deposit s check I have had sitting around the house. I never have to deposit a paycheck in person, so I rarely deposit any checks.

I get to this new fangled ATM that has suddenly appeared at my bank. IT is bright red. I look all over for envelopes, and they have none. I am getting pissed off thinking, "They have new freaking ATM machines, but they can't send a guy out to re-supply the envelopes? Then I see a big sing saying "No Envelope Needed!"

Wow!
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UPDATED: Having Fun With Wingnuts: Foley and the AJC

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Tuesday October 10, 2006 · 8:53 AM PDT

2006/10/10 · 08:53

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a question on one of it blogs:

"Would you let your child be a page?"

Of course I had to answer.... Read More

Dead People Can Legally Vote In Georgia!

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Thursday September 21, 2006 · 6:42 AM PDT

2006/09/21 · 06:42

Georgia's new photo ID voting law that is supposed to protect our ballot boxes? Well, it also changed the law so that dead people can legally vote by absentee ballot. And at no time does the dead person ever need to show an ID!

Jay Bookman of the AJC explains:

And yes, HB 244 allows dead people to vote. Under previous law, if someone voted via absentee ballot but died before Election Day, that vote wouldn't be counted. But no longer. HB 244 struck that language, so that today, the votes of dead Georgians still count.

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Friday September 15, 2006 · 5:59 AM PDT

2006/09/15 · 05:59

Dan Ponder Jr., a Democrat-turned-Republican state lawmaker who Cathy Cox asked to lead her bid to be the Democratic nominee for Governor has endorse Republican incumbent Sonny Perdue in the general election over the Democratic nominee, current Lt. Governor Mark Taylor.

First, I was rather shocked that Cathy Cox asked a Republican to lead her failed bid to be the Democratic nominee. Okay, maybe I was not that surprised. After all she is the Secretary of State that brought the Diebold voting machine into Georgia and remained adamantly opposed to any type of paper trail, until late in her campaign.
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Sarandon down on Hillary

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Friday March 17, 2006 · 8:17 AM PST

2006/03/17 · 08:17

Susan Sarandon is having some of the same feelings I am concerning Hillary. From NY Post:

March 17, 2006 -- SUSAN Sarandon doesn't think Sen. Hillary Clinton belongs in the White House. "I find Hillary to be a great disappointment," the lefty actress tells More magazine. "She's lost her progressive following because of her caution and centrist approach. It bothered me when she voted for the war. There were brave people who didn't. She's not worse than other politicians, but I hoped she would be better. What America is looking for is authentic people who want to go into public service because they strongly believe in something, not people who are [just] trying to get elected."

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