Cindy Manning is a friend of mine. One of those I knew before and outside of current political circles. She’s a now former candidate for District Attorney in the Griffin Judicial Circuit. That was a 3 person race and she missed the runoff. I supported her, because 1) that’s what friends do, and 2) I
Dear Republicans: it looks like things are about to get very bad thanks to Mr. Trump. In his most recent Crystal Ball, Larry Sabato says there is very little reason for the GOP to be sanguine about the Donald in November–even in Georgia. Hillary Clinton still has 347 Electoral College votes, the same as in Sabato’s
It started with a tweet from Johnny Kauffman, political reporter for WABE news: In Ga. 80% of statehouse races will be uncontested in November. https://t.co/kPwRaFQZii #gapol — Johnny Kauffman (@JohnnyIK) June 20, 2016 That began a bit of friendly banter between several of us who regularly hang out at #gapol, wondering, first of all, whether
Drew Ferguson’s congressional campaign today announced that the former West Point Mayor has secured the endorsements of seven of the 3rd Congressional District’s Sheriffs. They include: Mike Jolley – Harris County James Woodruff – Troup County John Darr – Muscogee County Ross Henry – Heard County Keith McBrayer – Henry County Mike Yeager – Coweta
The AJC’s Tamar Hallerman is reporting that Paul Broun is the Vice-President choice of Georgia Constitution Party. Of course there are a few hurdles to overcome like #1 getting Broun to accept. Favorito said Broun did not run or campaign for the position, nor did he attend the party’s convention: “He knows us and we
Jim Barksdale seems hellbent on proving his fortunes can’t buy him a single gram of campaign competence, reportedly telling Hall County Democrats America is to blame for radical Islam and the Orlando massacre. The GAGOP was oh-so-helpful distributing a statement with Barksdale’s quote, where he said “we are the ones that are in the wrong.”
A Drew Ferguson campaign release states that Ferguson has garnered the support of all five of the former candidates in the GA-3 GOP congressional primary held on May 24. Ferguson garnered 26.77% of the votes in the seven man race and will face State Sen. Mike Crane (26.93%) in the July 26, 2016 primary runoff.
Last night, Charlie Harper and I were on 11Alive discussing Presidential Politics. He remarked that everyone has a crazy uncle who says racist things, but nobody in the family wants him to have the nuclear codes. That about sums up the problem Republicans in Georgia face. You share some DNA with an irresponsible bigot, so
This week’s Courier Herald column: Republicans pride themselves of being the party of free markets. In politics, there are two primary measures of whether or not the markets are working. The monetary measure is fundraising for party activities. The market measure that ultimately matters is at the ballot box. Georgia Republicans have been maxing out
Former Texas Governor Rick Perry was the keynote speaker at the Georgia Republican Party’s Victory Dinner Friday night, giving an address about American’s principles and its possible future that in the end, brought the crowd of over 700 people to its feet. Perry, who was one of the first to drop out of the presidential
