They met at Fort Valley State University and did a little Q&A session with about 150 people. And during that session, and the milling about afterward, former Gov. Roy Barnes just dominated the place.
He walks around like a man who's already got the nomination. People want to talk to him, and he's damn glad to see them and remembers how he helped them out the last time they saw each other, you know, when he was governor.
I'll give you an example from the Q&A session. While all the candidates were promising (LIBERAL!) government solutions to most of the state's ills, someone stood up and said he couldn't get any state contracts, and he wants minority participation requirements enforced.
All the candidates agreed that was important. But Barnes just said you have a guy in your office who does that, and his guy was Irwin Mitchell (I'm unsure of the spelling). He said you'd be surprised how quickly department heads take care of something if they know the governor's interested in it.
"I would not sign a bond issue unless there was a minority participant," he said in closing.
I don't know how another Democratic candidate competes with answers like that.
Clockwise: Atty. Gen. Thurbert Baker, former Gov. Roy Barnes, House Minority Leader DuBose Porter. Duh.
I asked Rep. Porter that very question: "People know that ... when the Democrats lost the majority, that I stayed and rebuilt the caucus," he said.
The Tea Party folks should be against Georgia's Republican leaders, he said. He talked about the fight to keep cutting HTRG in the state budget, saying: "I was the one leading the fight to protect (property tax breaks)."
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Meanwhile: I have this microphone and I'm making sense, but ...
(Please note: not a real quote.)
Retired Gen. David Poythress
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Vietnam lawschool draft-dodger Roy Barnes, while a state senator overseeing the banking industry, successfully schemed to enrich himself in a banking start-up, as payoff by the banking industry.
Though Max Cleland doesn't want the job, the People of Georgia have an opportunity to make him elect as governor: a Georgia hero of proven integrity who had the courage and strength to quit the 9/11 Commission after Bush's and Cheney's role became apparent.
Anyone else notice Bush's weasel-eyes' guilt captured by the camera at Ted Kennedy's funeral when the inspired President Obama first mentioned 9/11?
Any not fully apprised of the truth of their treason need only download a patriotically donated copy of "The New Pearl Harbor," by a scholar and theologian of proven integrity: "The New Pearl Harbor" on Google Scholar.
We cannot place in office a failed man of proven poor character and expect to advance Georgia to the front-rank of American influence. This is the greatest state of the fifty and we must demonstrate our worthiness by choosing a hero, and man of proven character, Max Cleland, to lead us.
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