Karen Handel enters governor’s race
March 27, 2009 at 12:37 pm by Thomas Wheatley in NewsGeorgia Secretary of State Karen Handel makes it official:
Handel announced she’d filed the paperwork to begin raising money for the race. Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine and Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, two other Republicans, started raising money for the 2010 governor?s race last year.
“Our next governor will face many difficult challenges,” Handel said. “I look forward to meeting those challenges with exciting new ideas and a vision that will put us on the path to growth and prosperity.”
March 27th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Shouldn’t a college degree be one of the requirements for governor? Not that a degree makes you any smarter than anyone else, but I mean really??? We may be the first state to have a non-college degree governor if Cagle or Handel gets elected.
March 27th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
We would miss being the first state to elect a Governor who didn’t even attend college, much less graduate, by about 233 years. Notably, Virginia had a governor who was not a college graduate. His name was Patrick Henry.
March 27th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Not having a college degree now is almost the 60’s/70’s equivalent of not graduating highschool. Things were a little different 233 years ago. I think sometimes your urge to make a point sometimes clouds your better judgement.
March 27th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Hard to take seriously anything posted by someone who hides behind the partial name “DaleC.”
March 27th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
You may be right about that Dale, but I think you understand that sets the bar real low. I love Atlanta and Georgia, but electing a governor, IN 2008, without a degree takes us to unchartered waters. Look where electing a C student as our President got us.
March 27th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
@S. DeKalb Voter,
Whether candidates even mention the fact that Handel and Cagle lack college degrees — which, frankly, I don’t think matters in the slightest — is the cause of much speculation. A lot of folks say if an opponent were to even bring up the issue it’d backfire and cast them as an “elitist.”
March 27th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
@ TW, I agree. Politically, you can’t mention the issue without hurting your own campaign. However, this Republican, anti-intellectual, Joe six-pack, movement sickens me.
March 27th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
I agree with Thomas that the lack of a degree matters very little. But I would definitely bring it up if I were running against him, at least in the cities.
March 27th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
I’m probably confusing earning a college degree with intelligence. Clearly, there are very intelligent people out there that lack college degrees. Handel just doesn’t strike me as the brightest person. I want bright people running the govt. I don’t mind having a few nuts on the city council, but Gov is a completely different thing.
March 27th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
College Educated people caused the current economic depression, bank system socialization and the ongoing mess in Iraq. I rest my college dropout case…
March 28th, 2009 at 1:55 am
A lot of folks say if an opponent were to even bring up the issue…most voters would say yes, you’re right, if you want to be governor or a state with over 8 million people, you damn sure better have a college degree.
March 28th, 2009 at 8:29 am
Forget whether Cagle and Handel have degrees and let’s focus on their records. Like, what are they going to do about Georgia’s abysmal public schools? For example, how does Cagle’s claim to be concerned about public education square with his decision to push legislation that takes away from the Atlanta Public Schools the resposnibility to decide how to use its school tax dollars? Is Cagle fooling anyone? Certainly not me!
April 2nd, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Edgewood Adam – No judgement involved to point out a factual error. My only point was that we are nowhere close to the comment of S Dekalb Voter. Anything else is your own filter.
Yes, things are different from 233 years ago. I think that most of our Congressmen and President couldn’t hav been elected dogcatcher back then.
That said, I understand where S Dekalb is coming from.
April 2nd, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Joe Piehl – I am well known with a long history of comments on these blogs. How do I know that you are Joe Piehl?
April 2nd, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Yeah, Joe… how do we know?
April 2nd, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Joe Piehl is me.
April 2nd, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Joe Piehl – next time try a substantive response rather than a ridiculous “anonymity” post.
June 3rd, 2009 at 6:52 pm
AZ currently has a Governor who never graduated from college. She went to a technical school and recieved a “certificate” as a radiological technician.
Of course, AZ is also #50 for per-pupil education spending now and generally a really lousy place to live. So I guess nobody should be surprised that their governor is an uneducated babbling idiot.
June 3rd, 2009 at 7:48 pm
As opposed to most states which have Governors that are educated babbling idiots
June 3rd, 2009 at 8:34 pm
I think you mean “Governors [w]hat are educated babbling idiots.”
July 20th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Connecticut’s popular Governor, Jodi Rell, does not have a college degree.