Here’s the second of two Democratic Party of Georgia mailers that allege mayoral candidate Mary Norwood is actually a Republican. Jim Galloway’s got photos of the other. SpaceyG also provided a link to one.
Click to enlarge. More photos, including Norwood’s TV commercial response, are after the jump.
Or the latest Harry Potter novel. We’ll never know for sure, now will we?
A kind man then offers to take the petitions from Isakson and shred them. Nah, just kidding, he was just being a helpful gent.
On Wednesday night, the Democratic Party of Georgia will host a rally and outdoor viewing of President Barack Obama’s address to Congress about health care reform. The event starts at 6:45 p.m. and will be held at The Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site in Atlanta. For more information, visit the DPG’s Web site.
If Republicans are staging a similar event against the proposed reform, please shoot us a line or leave details in the comments.
GENRE: Like a Zagat or Places To See guidebook for unabashed liberals
REASONS TO HAVE THIS BOOK: Ever fretted over finding the best summer camp for your leftist children? Looking for a worker-owned, unionized strip bar? Want to eat at Studs Turkel’s favorite restaurant? The Nation Guide has you covered.
GEORGIA: Not exactly the most prominent location in the book, but we’re not off the map, either.
MANUEL’S TAVERN: Atlanta’s most revered liberal hangout is given a short but loving bio. The Nation’s version omits that Manuel’s son (and the bar’s current owner) Brian Maloof, is rumored to have some Republican leanings.
DID YOU KNOW? Eugene Debs, famed union organizer, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and founder of the IWW, lived in Atlanta from April 1919 until the end 1921. While in Atlanta, Debs ran for president and received over six percent of the popular vote, the highest ever for a Socialist Party candidate. Want to visit his old house? It’s the United States Penitentiary on McDonough Boulevard. (more…)
From the state Democratic Party:
ATLANTA – Democratic Party of Georgia Chair Jane Kidd released the following statement on the passing of former Attorney General Griffin Bell. Bell, who served as Attorney General under President Jimmy Carter, was a native of Americus and passed away today in Atlanta.
“Today, our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of Griffin Bell, and although we are saddened by the loss of a great statesman, we honor his memory and the contributions he made throughout a career of public service. I feel a deep personal loss today, because of Judge Bell’s close relationship with my family, but his true legacy transcends personal relationships. As Chief of Staff to former Governor Ernest Vandiver, he was a principal architect of the plan to desegregate schools in Georgia. As a federal judge, he worked to implement the Civil Rights Act, and as Attorney General in the Carter Administration, he fought to improve the credibility and professionalism of the US Department of Justice. These are just a few of the extraordinary accomplishments of an extraordinary Georgian.
“He leaves us with a legacy of devotion to a greater good and commitment to the citizens not only of his country but of the world.”
Georgia’s Democratic state legislators may be the only members of their party who failed to hitch a even a short little ride on Obama’s coattails.
The Republican edge in the state House of Representatives looks to drop from 34 seats to a 33 or 32 seat margin. Whoopie.
No incumbent state senators lost and Republicans look set to hold onto their 34-22 margin. (more…)
A couple weeks back, the AJC’s esteemed Jim Galloway ran a blog item that had Georgia politicos buzzing. In it, he quoted Senate Majority Leader Eric Johnson, R-Savannah, attacking the state’s new early voting program as a vehicle for voter fraud. Johnson called early voting “a mistake” and explained that it gave cheaters extra time “to go out there and pick up homeless people, and carry them to the polls, and register cats.”
Sen. Eric Johnson
Putting aside for a moment the fact that homeless people have as much legal right to vote as anyone else, Johnson’s statements were jaw-droppingly ironic because early voting in Georgia was a Republican initiative that party strategists believed would give the GOP an advantage at the polls. Statistics have shown that absentee voting is more popular among Republicans than Democrats. Therefore, the reasoning went, if absentee voting were extended to a month and folks no longer had to give an excuse to get an absentee ballot, then early voting could serve as an effective, state-subsidized get-out-the-vote effort for the GOP.
But it doesn’t seem to be working out that way. (more…)
The Jan. 30 Georgia Democrats’ Jefferson-Jackson Dinner at the World Congress Center was, well, predictable. Congressman John Lewis was honored, and brought along U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee.
And former Sen. Max Cleland was honored. With a pointed quip at Republicans — especially Saxby Chambliss, the military evader who hoisted war hero Cleland’s picture up alongside Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden to win the Senate seat – Cleland noted that “not all enemies of democracy are from foreign countries.â€
But if there was a surprise, it was the average age of the crowd. In past years youth attended, but in relatively small numbers. Not so this year, where the average age plunged a decade or so.
One group of college women – calling themselves “Hillary’s Green Team†– labored for their candidate. They’ve been helped along by City Councilmember Kwanza Hall. “Our goal is to reach out to young women,†said Erin O’Neil, 26, (no surprise) from Boston. She’s now a grad student at Georgia State. Despite all of the excitement, she was a little perplexed at the paradigm shift from Massachusetts to Georgia.
“People who run here as Democrats could run in Boston as Republicans,†she said.
