Gary Horlacher to run for Secretary of State
April 28, 2009 at 5:01 pm by Scott Henry in News
Political junkies will recall Horlacher as a former press secretary to then-Gov. Roy Barnes. Horlacher, a partner with the Atlanta law office of Adorno & Yoss, is a longtime Democratic operative who usually moves behind the scenes. He considered running for Secretary of State four years ago, but passed.
He’ll hold a formal announcement on Wednesday, but in a press release he’s already taking aim at the legacy of the current SoS, Karen Handel:
It will be my top priority to immediately eliminate the partisan shenanigans that have crept into this office over the last few years.
Horlacher’s campaign platform seems to rest partly on a renewed call for a voting-machine “paper trail” to reassure voters that Georgia elections are on the up-and-up. By contrast, he says, Handel spent her time in office “resurrecting firewalls to make it more difficult for some to register to vote, using flawed techniques to try and purge selected voters lists, and even trying to inappropriately prevent a qualified candidate (from the other party) from seeking public office.”
Sad, but true, as we reported last October. (We also used the word “shenanigans.” Interesting.)
Horlacher has the connections and the political savvy to run a statewide campaign, but will that be enough to overcome low name recognition?
April 28th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Connections and the political savvy to run a statewide campaign are great, but how about knowing the basics about the job you aspire to?
This guys has demonstrated out of the gate that he knows nothing about voting equipment and is just trying to appeal to folks with tin foil hats.
The federal certification of a voting system takes years, there is currently no viable system on the market that provides a paper trail and replacing the system would cost $30-50 million dollars.
Tell me where in our current budget shortfalls is he going to find these tens of millions to replace the statewide system?
Ready fire aim……duh