Greek god announces 2010 gubernatorial bid
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008And like all immortals, he’s a Democrat!
David Poythress, brother of Prometheus, descended yesterday from his gymnasium high atop Mt. Olympus, cousin of Stone Mountain, to announce he’s running for governor in 2010.
In reality, it was at the Peace Officers Association of Georgia meeting at Jekyll Island, and according to his bio, Poythress is a Macon native. A mythical land in its own right, yes, but Greece it is not.
This won’t be the first time the former commander of the Georgia National Guard takes a stab at the state’s top job. He ran an unsuccessful bid in 1998 while he was commissioner of the state Department of Labor.
Just how successful of a run this could be depends, first, on who else jumps into the still-26-months-away race, and second, if a Democrat really has any chance of winning a gubernatorial election in Georgia. Aside from Atlanta, that island of blue in the red sea that is the rest of the state, a Democrat may have a hard time convincing voters to check his name. According to this report from the AJC, Poythress thinks he has a chance to win over moderate Republicans and independents. WMAZ in Macon reports Poythress highlighted transportation, commuter rail and trauma care as the key issues he’ll stress.
The only other candidate who’s officially tossed his name into the mix is state insurance commissioner John Oxendine. Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle and state House Minority Leader DuBose Porter, D-Dublin, have also been mentioned as possible candidates.
Poythress has a long list of superlatives attached to his name. We’ve pasted them from his state Dept. of Defense website bio after the jump.
(Photo courtesy of the state DOD)
