Oconee County, GA Politics

I have never enjoyed receiving robo-calls. I did get former Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond and the newly single and former Lieutenant Governor nominee Carol Porter to record some for me in my State Legislature campaign. I doubt whether Barbara Bush is going to convince many Democratic voters in Oconee County to crossover and vote for Mitt, but I think that would do the worst for Newt Gingrich. I strongly encourage all voters to go to the polls tomorrow to support whomever they want in the Georgia Presidential Primary and remind you that you can choose a Democratic ballot and support Presidenti Barack Obama if the choices on the Republic side have no appeal. One side of me would think that Newt winning Georgia will prolong the Republican nomination process a few more weeks. Mitt won five in a row counting Washington. I am fairly certain he will have more delegates Wednesday morning. Oh yes, there is a Ron Paul rally at the Georgia Theatre 5:00 pm this Monday afternoon and there are...

I just received a generic robo call from a college girl complaining that the cuts to the HOPE scholarship will prevent her parents from getting the tuition break they deserve. No accreditation to the call, but the number 404-239-9920 in an unpublished landline in Cobb County. The vote is Tuesday to prevent a large section of Georgia parents from qualifying for full HOPE Scholarship eligibility. The call did mention something about Zell Miller's scholarship

Politics is a mean and nasty game. Generally those who are being called the worst names are the ones who are in the lead.  Got home from work today to hear a couple of robo-calls on the answering machine. One was from former Senator Mack Mattingly touting Eric Johnson for Governor.  The other was really reprehensible not in so much that it attacks Hank Huckaby for admitting that there may indeed be a need to raise taxes, it is that no one claims authorship of the recorded message or they extremely amateurish website the phone call directs you to, should you be that silly (like me) to go and check it out. The robo-call itself reeks of desperation and grasping at straws. It shrieks of panic and hysteria and someone in last place, and the only clue as to its authorship is one poorly written sentence that sounds like it came from someone who flunked out of Gainesville State English 098-R. The clue left though credits one candidate at the expense of the other, and they try to gi...