GA: Cathy Cox campaign manager resigns

Georgia Democratic Sec. of State and gubernatorial candidate Cathy Cox has just lost her campaign manager Morton Brilliant over a wikipedia entry he posted that attacked her Dem. primary opponent Mark Taylor with personal information regarding his son.

According to the article (here), she says she had previously laid down the law to keep personal attacks on candidate family members out of her campaign. Too bad she can't control her own staff. I wonder what effect this will have on her campaign.

Brilliant's resignation plunges the Cox campaign into uncertainty with less than three months to go before Georgia's July 18 primary.

The Cox campaign has struggled to find its footing recently.

An attempt to show that Taylor's first television advertisement exaggerated his role in creating the HOPE scholarship fell flat. One of the state lawmakers the Cox campaign enlisted to undercut Taylor's camp ended up supporting him.

And the Wikipedia flap overshadowed what had been billed as a major policy address by Cox at the YMCA in Atlanta on Wednesday.

Taylor officially launched his campaign two weeks ago and has already visited several cities and towns around the state.