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Packed house at Oconee County Library - Collins compares very well against Hice's hostility and ineptitude
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Who is the more non-establishment Republican candidate for Congress in the 10th District of Georgia? Who wants to close more departments in government? Who is going to settle the debt all by themselves quicker?
The answer to these and other absurd questions were given lip service, but with no real substance last night at the Oconee County GOP forum at the Oconee County Library on Experiment Station Road in Watkinsville last night.
Among those in attendance were former two-time 10th district Congressional candidate Stephen Simpson of Milledgeville, who is endorsing Collins after getting 36% less in this primary than the last time he took on Paul Broun in 2012.
These and many more questions were refereed very well by political professional and blogger Todd Rehm Wednesday evening at the Library on Experiment Station Road. There were very few empty chairs and people on the walls and in the halls.
Candidate Jody Hice struck me as being a pompous little brat out there berating Mike Collins at every opportunity, including taking on Collins' former Congressman father (Mac Collins, who was standing and getting his blood pressure raised by Hice's character assassination) rather foolishly. The Collins' ire was evident after that Hice stumble. Several people in the audience were visibly shaken and got up and left when things started getting ugly.
Hice, for a Sunday preacher, has no tact or semblance of polite political behavior toward his own party. Mac Collins was in attendance at the debate and wanted to respond to Reverend Hice's petty picking on the father of the candidate.
I will say this: Ken Dious is going to make mincemeat out of them in any debate with the Democratic candidate. After a short lifetime with Paul Broun at our Congressional seat, I do not think we can afford to keep being the laughing stock of America again. There were at least a half dozen Democratic supporters of Dious doing their level best opposition research, including some folks from Greene County. Among the local folks I saw in the Nedra Johnson of Bishop and Pat Adams of down by the Elder Mill Covered Bridge.
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