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Best letter on the election of man not all that far from Tifton

Thanks to my Cordele friend Lori Mcbrayer Jobe and her Facebook friends for alerting me of the letter writer in the Tifton Gazette from a few days before the election. Their less than impressive website does not let one copy the entire letter in one fell swoop so I pasted them together for maximum impact. This is a fairly lengthy read by most posts on this blog but please give it a chance. One of Lori's friends said this should have been a full page ad in every newspaper in Georgia from the Democratic Party with this letter and their might have been a different outcome. The letter writer's name is Dick Marti, and the pagination of the original leaves a little to be desired: The Georgia Senate runoff between incumbent Saxby Chambliss (R) and challenger Jim Martin (D) is well under way, with the vote scheduled for Dec. 2. A lot has been made of the magic number of 60 Democratic seats in the new Senate. Preventing the Democrats from reaching that number gives Republicans some leve...