So who is behind Hanklikestaxes.com?
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 give some slight nod to Kirk Shook for writing to the Georgia Right to Life foundation and then claims that Huckaby copied Shook's response to get the increasingly unimportant endorsement of the extremist group wanting to make reproductive rights illegal for women.
It is entirely possible that candidate and teacher Shook knew nothing of the robo-call nor the poorly done website that could not even load properly, but it is incumbent upon every candidate to make sure we all play by the same rules and to make sure others do not make claims or smear mud in your name. Anonymous flyers and other muckraking folly are standard operating procedures out of the Karl Rove-Lee Atwater playbook.
The Republican right is eating or at least attempting to eat the Republican center. The Republican center has sent out several expensive postcard attempting to prove that they are more conservative than anyone else. There is no Republican Left left anymore since Nelson Rockefeller was Gerald Ford's Vice President in 1975.
Vote Tuesday in the primary and do not let anonymous calls and websites sway your viewpoint.
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 give some slight nod to Kirk Shook for writing to the Georgia Right to Life foundation and then claims that Huckaby copied Shook's response to get the increasingly unimportant endorsement of the extremist group wanting to make reproductive rights illegal for women.
It is entirely possible that candidate and teacher Shook knew nothing of the robo-call nor the poorly done website that could not even load properly, but it is incumbent upon every candidate to make sure we all play by the same rules and to make sure others do not make claims or smear mud in your name. Anonymous flyers and other muckraking folly are standard operating procedures out of the Karl Rove-Lee Atwater playbook.
The Republican right is eating or at least attempting to eat the Republican center. The Republican center has sent out several expensive postcard attempting to prove that they are more conservative than anyone else. There is no Republican Left left anymore since Nelson Rockefeller was Gerald Ford's Vice President in 1975.
Vote Tuesday in the primary and do not let anonymous calls and websites sway your viewpoint.
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