Received this e-mail today from State Senator Jason Carter's (D. GA) gubernatorial campaign:
We wanted to share with you Gov. Deal's guide on how to dig yourself out of millions of dollars of debt and get rich quick.
Step 1: Get elected governor of Georgia.
Step 2: Use your official staff to negotiate a land sale deal with a big out-of-state corporation.
Step 3: Sell your floundering company to that big business for $3 million.
Step 4: Ignore the fact that this corporation is a huge tax cheat that owes Georgia taxpayers $74 million.
Step 5: Celebrate when they donate money to help your reelection campaign.
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By the way, very happy to see this man on the campaign trail for Carter:
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Fellow Democrats David Poythress and Max Cleland gave Jason Carter a little help Thursday in criticizing Nathan Deal.
Surrounded by historic military planes, the men attacked Deal over his appointments to the Georgia National Guard for basing them on cronyism instead of credentials. Poythress, a former head of the state guard, said the appointments hurt the state’s relations with Pentagon officials, which could result in shortchanging the state on missions and equipment and possibly harm Georgia’s chances in avoiding future closures of military bases.
“You do not politicize the military,” said Poythress, a two-time unsuccessful candidate for governor himself. “This governor, right out of the box, appointed political cronies to the top leadership position in the National Guard. They are not qualified professionally or by experience or otherwise, and that is reflected in the quality of their leadership.
“I will tell you the leadership -- not the men and women of the guard -- the leadership is a laughingstock nationally in the professional military community.”
One of Deal’s first appointments was Jim Butterworth to become the guard’s adjutant general. Butterworth was an airline pilot and state senator from Deal’s home of Gainesville, serving as Deal’s Senate floor leader.
He had served in the Air Force and Georgia Air National Guard, but had only attained the rank of captain. As a result, the U.S. Department of Defense doesn’t recognize the jump in rank granted by the Georgia guard to become major general.
“When they go to the Pentagon, and they go to meetings with other general officers, they have to wear a coat and tie,” Poythress said. “They don’t belong there, and everybody knows they don’t belong there.”
Cleland, who lost both legs and an arm while serving in Vietnam, agreed.
“We need to put our best foot forward, not only for potential base closures that may come down the pike from Washington, but we need to put our best forward because of our people,” said Cleland, who Carter’s grandfather, former President Jimmy Carter, appointed secretary of Veterans Affairs. - Florida Times-Union, 10/16/14
By the way, Deal is getting hit on this:
http://politics.blog.ajc.com/...
Plenty of people have already grilled Gov. Nathan Deal over his “water kills the Ebola virus” comment during a recent campaign stop. On Wednesday, his Libertarian opponent Andrew Hunt joined the fray with some choice words of his own.
“How can we have such an idiot running our state?” Hunt told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “This is a very serious issue and we can’t have our leaders misquoting information to the general population.”
When pressed on how Deal should address the Ebola problem, Hunt said officials should check sewage water to make sure it wasn’t contaminated while two sick patients were treated at Emory University Hospital in August. (A third arrived last night.)
Hunt also said the state should consider health screenings at airport terminals, before doubling down on his previous words.
“[Deal] is not intelligent enough to make statements in this area. He doesn’t have the background or sense to make statements in this area,” Hunt said. “People who aren’t able to speak properly or get proper advice should just not say anything.” - Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 10/16/14
Speaking of idiots:
http://politics.blog.ajc.com/...
Gov. Nathan Deal and Republican Senate hopeful David Perdue just announced an nine-day “Victory Tour” starting next week, and firebrand Texas Sen. Ted Cruz — a possible presidential contender — is slated to join them.
The Cruz event will be Oct. 25 at a farm in Bloomingdale, outside Savannah. In other 2016 news, Peach Pundit reported that Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., will appear with Perdue on Oct. 24 in McDonough. And we’re still waiting for a date for Hillary Clinton’s visit to Georgia to help Democrat Michelle Nunn. - Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 10/16/14
But hey, idiots need to stick together:
http://www.msnbc.com/...
In the latter half of September, eight polls were released publicly on Georgia’s U.S. Senate race, and each one showed Republican David Perdue in the lead. Over the last week, however, three statewide polls have come out in Georgia, and Perdue suddenly isn’t leading in any of them.
Roll Call reported yesterday that the National Republican Senatorial Committee confirmed the party is “looking at a tougher race in Georgia,” where the contest between Perdue and Michelle Nunn (D) “has tightened up.”
It’s not lost on officials in either party that Republicans may come up short in their bid to control the U.S. Senate because of Georgia, Kansas, and South Dakota, even if voters in Colorado and Iowa go with surprisingly right-wing candidates.
There are competing explanations for developments in Georgia, but the most obvious is Perdue’s outsourcing problem – the conservative Republican has boasted, more than once, about his controversial private-sector background, which includes significant job losses through outsourcing, on top of factory closings, consolidations, and reduced work hours at U.S. facilities. - MSNBC, 10/17/14
Turns out Jack Kingston would've been a stronger candidate than Perdue:
http://politics.blog.ajc.com/...
In a post at Roll Call’s “At the Races,” Rob Collins, top staffer at the National Republican Senatorial Committee, admits that the race in Georgia has tightened up. Without using his name, Collins hints that Republican David Perdue may still be hurting from his July runoff with U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston, whose strength was on the Georgia coast:
“Candidly, we view that strategy in South Dakota and Georgia as similar to things we’ve done in the past where we’re kind of getting to the end of the campaign, and we’re a little anxious, start believing rumors and looking at polls differently and say, ‘Well, why don’t we put some money in here and maybe we’ll shift the dynamic,’” Collins said.
A problem for Perdue, Collins said, has been name identification. Perdue had a crowded Republican primary, followed by a runoff, and only began campaigning for the general election at the end of July. Georgia is an expensive state to advertise, and Perdue is now just “introducing himself to a broader audience.”
In particular, Collins said, Perdue needs to make an effort to improve his name recognition in the Savannah area, near the Florida border. - Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 10/16/14
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