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Matt Towery of InsiderAdvantage is convinced that operatives with the Obama presidential campaign helped scuttle Vernon Jones’ Senate bid by sending out mailers that focused on Jones’ boasts that he voted twice for George W. Bush. The rumor has been picked up by Political Insider, Peach Pundit and other local blogs.

A certain Kenneth Walker, a Jones strategist, claims that he knows “for a fact…that there was a meeting in Sen. Harry Reid’s office with David Axelrod from Obama’s campaign, and there was an agreement Obama’s campaign would help Jim Martin with the direct mail linking Vernon and George Bush.”

That’s strange. We thought Vernon and Barrack were supposed to be tight.

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Jim Powell’s appeal has been scheduled for Monday, Aug. 4 at 3 p.m. in Fulton County Superior Court.

The Public Service Commission candidate was thrown off the July 15 primary ballot in an eleventh-hour disqualification Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel, who overruled a decision by an administrative law judge that deemed he met residency requirements. A Fulton County Superior Court judge granted him a stay and he managed to pull in 85 percent of the votes in his race against Bob Indech. (Click here to view CL’s rundown of the events.)

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Candidates in last night’s primary who were endorsed by Georgia Conservation Voters won big last night. Here’s a win/loss rundown of the group:

List of 2008 Primary Endorsements:

Public Service Commission
District 4: Pam Davidson (R) – LOSS
District 4: Jim Powell (D) – WIN

Senate
District 2: Lester Jackson (D) - WIN
District 3: Jeff Chapman (R) - WIN
District 12: Freddie Powell Sims (D) - WIN
District 36: Nan Orrock (D) - WIN
District 46: Bill Cowsert (R) – WIN, will face challenger in November

House
District 10: Rick Austin (R) – WIN
District 44: Sheila Jones (D) – WIN, will face challenger in November
District 59: Margaret Kaiser (D) – WIN
District 66: Virgil Fludd (D) – WIN
District 98: Bobby Reese (R) – WIN
District 177: Mark Hatfield (R) – WIN, will face challenger in November

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Registered voters can perform the act (of voting, that is) this week at select locations within their counties in advance of the July 15 primary.

Locations and hours are limited though. Find out where to vote early by clicking here and clicking on the second Adobe document. You can only vote early this week, because the Monday before the July 15 primary isn’t an advance voting day.

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