Few more musings from our last pre-election meeting


We had five brave souls attend the Oconee County Democratic Committee meeting last night at the Oconee County Courthouse. Judge David Sweat continued a strong tradition of candidates attending our gatherings, and I think we have had at least one candidate at every meeting since I took over the helm a couple years back. The main gist of the evening was listening to ideas about the Oconee County Christmas parade 11 am Saturday, December 2, 2006 in Watkinsville. We will have the Belgian horses again, so if anyone wants to help out, we will greatly appreciate it. The Blue hat society will be meeting this Saturday and Saturday, Nov. 18th to finalize plans for the float. Essentially we are going after a birthday party cake theme for the float, which is really the back of the horse carriage. Anyone with any extra white sheets they are throwing away, we will be glad to use them. Also any and all large cardboard tubes, like the kind you see inside a wrapping paper roll, are going to be used as "candles." We are hoping to have the newly elected members of the general assembly as our guests, but that is getting ahead of ourselves.

Fred Johnson tells me I look a little crazy in my photo in the Oconee Leader newspaper. If there are any photographers out there willing to click my pic for free, I would greatly appreciate it. Fred is a former wrestler from Duke and he took Kate McDaniel to the mat over her insistence that John Kerry is some kind of war traitor because of his joke at the expense of President Bush. John Boehner does not get slammed over his comments about the war being the fault of the generals and not that of the President. The President makes mistakes all the time when he speaks and no one is calling for his head on a platter, probably because we have become conditioned to expect his reprehensible rhetorical skills to splatter all over the highway.

I hope next election cycle when the WinSouth.org and Clarke County Democrats decide to host an event at the same time we have a meeting, we can communicate better in advance to combine forces instead of compete against each other. I wish Lt. Gov. Taylor would have arrived a little earlier, but I am glad he came to Athens again.

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