Former Senator Sam Nunn (D. GA) (L), Michelle Nunn (D. GA) (R)
This guy is getting desperate:
http://politics.blog.ajc.com/...
Then we have the new attack line from David Perdue, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, unveiled at a stump speech in Blue Ridge. We’ve usually heard him try to separate Michelle Nunn from her popular, moderate father. But after a discussion of the wrongs of President Barack Obama, Perdue went for Sam:
“We’re being sold the same bill of goods by my opponent. She’s trying to say ‘Oh no, I’m going to go to Washington and work together with the other side like my daddy did.’
“I want the Panama Canal back, y’all. You know, I remember. I remember in 2008 when Sam Nunn stood up and gave on TV – and it’s on YouTube right now, you can see it. Go look at what Sam Nunn said about our commander in chief. He said Barack Obama will open up a new day for America. He’ll protect our military. He’ll be good to our veterans.”
For the millennials out there, in 1978, Sam Nunn voted to give the Panama Canal back to Panama — backing then-President Jimmy Carter — in a move that was later seen as highly damaging to his presidential hopes. - Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 10/28/14
Perdue feels that going after Nunn's father, who is still loved and respected in Georgia, will help peel away votes because Nunn's father still knows how to get voters riled up:
http://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/...
“Vote, vote, vote vote,” said former senator Sam Nunn, who was in Rome Monday to boost the candidacy of his daughter, Democrat Michelle Nunn.
Republican David Perdue brought his own message to town.
“I don’t think in my lifetime I’ve ever seen a more critical time that everybody who is concerned about the direction of our country get out the vote,” he said.
The men spoke just hours apart, at their respective party’s headquarters on Broad Street.
Nunn said dysfunction in Washington is one of the biggest problems in America today.
“Michelle has said her top priority is to help solve the problems for Americans and to work with whoever is president,” he said.
The former senator recalled that he had to work with three different presidents during his first term in office: Republicans Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford and Democrat Jimmy Carter. He said his daughter would be independent-minded.
“The key to this is, will there be others on both sides of the aisle who are in that category,” Nunn said. - Rome News-Tribune, 10/28/14
It's also a sign that Perdue needs to attack Nunn's family because he can't run on his business record anymore:
http://www.nytimes.com/...
A self-proclaimed Mr. Fix-It from the private sector, Mr. Perdue has found that his credentials as a senior executive at Reebok, Sara Lee, Haggar Clothing, Pillowtex and Dollar General have worked against him in the closing days of his race against Michelle Nunn, a Democrat.
Ms. Nunn has been able to point to the outsourcing of jobs on Mr. Perdue’s watch, in much the same way that President Obama did against Mitt Romney in 2012, and the race has emerged as one of the nation’s closest, and one of few where Democrats have an opportunity to pick up a seat.
Diane Barnette, who spent 26 years working at the Sara Lee apparel plant here, had never heard Mr. Perdue’s name when he was in charge of building the company’s presence in Asia. But she believes she saw his handiwork.
She worked her way up from sewing machine operator to plant manager, watching as jobs moved overseas and until the plant finally closed in 1995. Her introduction to Mr. Perdue came more recently, in a campaign advertisement attacking him as the man responsible for her career’s demise. She would never vote for him, said Ms. Barnette, 69, who finished her working days at a car dealership earning a fraction of her previous salary. But she does not hold him personally responsible.
“They were just caught up in the hurry of everybody going offshore, including him, and they weren’t thinking about the people getting hurt,” she said.
Now it is Mr. Perdue who may be feeling the pain. - New York Times, 10/27/14
And of course this is hurting Perdue:
http://www.motherjones.com/...
In a Sunday night debate between Perdue and Nunn, the moderator suggested that ads about Perdue's time as the CEO of Dollar General, a discount chain, had damaged the GOPer's campaign. Shortly after Perdue stepped down as Dollar General's CEO, hundreds of female managers sued the company for pay discrimination that allegedly took place during Perdue's tenure. Nunn's campaign and EMILY's List have both aired millions of dollars' worth of negative ads describing the class-action lawsuit. The moderator urged Perdue: "Talk to those women in particular."
Here's how Perdue responded: "If you look at Dollar General as an example, there was no wrongdoing there," he said. "That lawsuit, or that claim, or that complaint was settled five years after I had left…And it was less than 2,000 people. We had upwards of 70,000 employees in that company."
An annual report Dollar General submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission puts the actual number of female managers in that class action at 2,100. As Mother Jones reported in May, the women had been paid less than their male peers between the dates of November 30, 2004 and November 30, 2007—almost exactly the dates that Perdue was CEO (from April 2003 to summer 2007.) The class action began in late 2007, and Dollar General settled the lawsuit for $18.75 million without admitting to discrimination. - Mother Jones, 10/27/14
Nunn is determined to reach the 50% mark on Election Day and she's not only relying on her father to help out with getting out the vote:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Michelle Nunn's difficult political balancing act as she seeks Georgia's open U.S. Senate seat was on full display at a rally Monday alongside civil rights icon John Lewis.
Calling Nunn a "smart, gifted" force who would help "move Georgia into the 21st century," the Atlanta congressman roused several hundred black voters in the Democratic stronghold of south DeKalb County.
"Now, look, almost 50 years ago, I gave a little blood on that bridge in Selma, Alabama," Lewis boomed, recalling Bloody Sunday in 1965. "I almost died for the right to vote. Some of my friends died. We're still alive, so you have to go out there and vote like you never voted before."
The crowd roared with the kind of enthusiasm Nunn needs for black voters to wield enough influence on Nov. 4. Yet even with a strong minority turnout, she needs a decent slice of the white vote — perhaps as much as a third — to defeat Republican David Perdue. - Huffington Post, 10/27/14
Lets win this this on Election Day. Click here to donate and get involved with Nunn's campaign so we can get voters to the polls:
http://www.michellenunn.com/