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I’m taking a much needed mental break from Peach Pundit for the weekend, (and possibly most of next week as I’ll be traveling on business). I’ll try to post a fantasy football update over the weekend, but that’s about all I’m willing to commit to right now. (Preview: Karen Handel’s [...]
A certain domestic terrorist organization has suggested UGA replace the newly departed UGA VII with a robotic dog.
I particularly detest this organization because they have the ability to do stupid things to get earned media attention, so I will not honor their attempt by mentioning them by name, nor by [...]
Received a campaign email from Angela Hicks, which included the following:
We’re excited to announce State Senator Ross Tolleson from Perry, will serve as our Honorary Campaign Chairman. Ross is a tireless worker for Georgia ; we are honored to have him join us. Thank you Ross!
Hicks is in a [...]
From A Press Release:
ATLANTA, Georgia – On Saturday, December 5 the Metro Veterans Coalition of the Fulton County Republican Party will host a Veterans Town Hall: The State of Veterans Health Care & Benefits featuring former U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Anthony J. Principi, U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, who sits [...]
We’re all either busy or already on vacation.
Talk among yourselves until we get some new topics up.
OPEN THREAD:
[...]Bill Clinton Does. I just got an email announcing Clinton will attend a fundraiser for Thurbert Baker.
The Press Release:
(Atlanta) Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker announced today that President Bill Clinton will deliver remarks at a fundraiser to benefit his 2010 campaign for Governor of Georgia. The event will be [...]
Tonight, 5:30pm, Five Seasons at the Prado/Sandy Springs, is the Peach Pundit Road Show/Happy Hour. I’ll be there, and based on how the day is going at the “real job”, I’ll be surly and bitter. Beer should help.
Scheduled to attend from the front page are Jason Pye and Buzz [...]
Representative Joe Wilson no longer has a monopoly on inappropriate outbursts in public. Apparently, Mrs. Judson Hill was inspired enough by Rep. Wilson that she decided to try it out on her husband’s primary challenger, Lynda Coker, at a recent gathering of the North Fulton Republican Women’s Club. From [...]
From a Press Release:
SMYRNA – Today Representative Rob Teilhet formally endorsed Stacey Evans to succeed him as the representative from State House District 40.
“I’ve known Stacey Evans for several years as a community leader and know her to be intelligent, hard working, and passionate about service,” said Representative Teilhet. “Stacey [...]
Skipping past the property damage, long-term road closures, and overall life routine disruptions, we have apparently missed the biggest crisis of the recent Atlanta floods until now: Frozen Waffle Shortage
Kellogg Company said that due to “a confluence of events” — including flooding at its Bucknell Drive manufacturing facility — [...]
Whether the result of unexciting candidates, a disinterested electorate, or collapsing local media outlets, the contest to be Atlanta’s next mayor flew under the radar until a couple of weeks before election day. The sole entertainment injected in the race was when Mary Norwood was attacked for being a Republican, [...]
From the Tipline:
Secretary of State Candidate Brian Kemp will be having a Young Professionals event tomorrow, November 17th, 5:00 to 7:00pm at Chastain Park. Hosts are asked to give or raise $500, Couples attending are asked to contribute $100.
The Legion House At Chastain Park
3905 Powers Ferry Road, NW
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I attended a “Young Professionals” event held for Gubernatorial candidate Eric Johnson last night at the Twisted Taco in Midtown Atlanta. Johnson’s campaign reserved the upstairs and hosted a capacity crowd for a little mixing and mingling of the well dressed and upwardly mobile with a little political discussion thrown [...]
Two Things:
There is a rare Thursday NFL game tomorrow night. Make your picks for Pro Pick’em, and set your teams for Fantasy Football if applicable.
Also, as previously announced, there will be a Peach Pundit Road Show happy hour at the Five Season’s Brewing Company, Sandy Springs, Next Thursday, November 19th, [...]
Mr. Jones is one of the 8 9 10 candidates running for the 9th Congressional district, and I’ve now met him at several events, including last night’s Walker County GOP Dinner. He’s also a frequent commenter here at Peach Pundit. More importantly, he was kind enough to invite me to [...]
Doug MacGinnitie announced today that he has added members to his Military Advisory Voting Committee. MacGinnitie has previously annouced his committee with the purpose of “finding and developing a plan to make voting for active military and overseas personnel easy and efficient.”
New to the team are:
Gary Smith, a resident of [...]
It’s Midnight, and I’m at IHOP in Ft. Oglethorpe GA (TN?) to give you the late breaking Walker County GOP Straw Poll results.
First, a note about the gathering. Frequent Peach Pundit commenter Nathan Smith is the 23 year old Chairman of the Walker GOP, and handles his job with a [...]
Bert Loftman has joined 9 others (Mike Cowan, Tom Dooley, Mike Evans, Tom Graves, Lee Hawkins, Jeremy Jones, Bobby Reese, Bill Stephens, and Steve Tarvin) in the race for Georgia’s Ninth District Congressional Seat.
His press release indicates his platform is to Institute a FairTax, Abolish the Fed, and Honor the [...]
I received an email from Ronald Daniels, regular Peach Pundit poster, alerting me to MoveOn.org’s activiites against Jim Marshall. Given that Mr. Daniels is an actual resident of GA-8, and that I figured he needed a break from law school, I asked him to write it up. The following is [...]
Congrats to Martha Zoller. Probably best known to Peach Pundit readers as a recurring panelist on The Georgia Gang, Zoeller has had a moring radio talk show on Gainesville’s WDUN AM. She’s now moving to 103.7 FM to anchor a lineup with Neal Boortz, Clark Howard, Dr. Laura, and [...]
I first met Mark when he was still in high school. His family were recent immigrants to the United States and shared a mutual friend of the family. They operated a restaurant in my hometown, and were finally ready to step up to their part of the American dream and [...]
In this week’s Peach Pundit Fantasy Football Action, Eric Johnson (5-3) defeated Nathan Deal (2-6) decisivley with a 91 to 70 score. The victory has Johnson moving up to third place in overall standings, with the top four teams eventually moving into the playoffs.
Karen Handle (7-1) rolled up another impressive [...]
Friday, November 6, 2009, The year of our Lord.
Write this day down.
It is a day we finally found the limits to which The Ox will stretch to pander to every last voter. And the person to be credited with forcing Ox’s hand: Nathan Deal
In an interview with the AJC [...]
Earlier today, frequent contributor “ByteMe” gave us a tip in an open thread to this story, which indicated that Congressman Nathan Deal, in his first online chat on his new website, indicated that he now wants the President to show his papers.
So as to not take the Congressman out [...]
Let’s face it. Though Kellie Weeks, Jay Melvin, and Jeff Sexton have done their best to keep us entertained during this off-year election, the news has been fairly quiet.
Even the City Of Atlanta races have been unusually dull. Until Today.
Thank you, Mary Norwood (via Thomas Wheatley) for this gem:
Just [...]
From the tipline, today’s twitter from Austin Scott:
Just signed qtrly wage and tax returns. That is something Karen Handel has never done. Of course Karen wasn’t Deputy Chief of Staff either.
No more Mr. Nice Guy from Representative Scott. It’s going to be interesting watching strategies develop in a 7 person [...]
Glynn County has some smart folks running their GOP. They figured out if they did an event the weekend of the GA/FL game debacle, they could get $25 per head for a straw poll from a mix of regulars and some of us out of town interlopers.
I attended the event. [...]
I’m trying to head out from the beach, and quite frankly, don’t want to talk about football today. Plus, I can’t find this week’s update email from league commissioner Doug Deal. Here’s some quick hits from last week’s fantasy football action:
Karen Handel remains atop the standings, with a 6-1 record. [...]
Kickoff is 3:30. Hope for a huge Georgia upset should last until about 3:43. I’ll be there, because, as you know, I’m a huge optimist.
I was able to attend the Glynn County Low Country Boil last night. Those folks know how to run an efficient event. Started at 5:00, was [...]
O.K., since Kellie can’t keep a secret, we’re going to open up the Peach Pundit Road Show happy hour to anyone. And by anyone, I mean we’ll invite Jason Shepherd too. Thanks Kellie.
We’ll be gathering for a Happy Hour in North Metro Atlanta. We’re willing to consider suggestions for a [...]
Why am I a candidate for Congress now?
I believe it’s time to give the “People’s House” back to the people. The House of Representatives was created so the common citizen could have a voice in government. The people of the 8th District have lost their voice in [...]
…and I thought “Bearded Spock Day” was over.
Then Jay Bookman has to go and say that Newt Gingrich is being REASONABLE?
These are frightening words to type, but … Newt Gingrich and I agree with each other.
Talking to Greta van Susteren last night on Fox, the former speaker noted [...]
Just got a press release from Doug MacGinnitie’s campaign claiming that he’s the first in Georgia to offer an iPhone app for his campaign. If interested, a link to download it is here.
The app has a home page with campaign and family pics, and tabs for his bio, events, [...]
While the final details are still being negotiated, key Democratic senators have reached general consensus on extending and expanding the $8,000 Homebuyers tax credit which has been doggedly pursued by Georgia’s Senator Johnny Isakson.
“We’re close, we’re close but I can’t get into any details until it’s a done [...]
and I’ve done a lot of crazy things…
I’m going to recommend you read today’s column by Jay Bookman. I’ll go so far as calling it required reading if you self-identify as either a conservative or a Republican.
I don’t recommend it because I believe he is right, and I don’t [...]
While we do our best to keep a dialogue on all Georgia politics, the front page group is relatively small, and limited in geographic coverage. A friend of mine from Baldwin county emailed me yesterday asking my opinion on the House District 141 race, and I told her I would [...]
If the election were held today…there would be a lot of campaign consultants fired for cause.
Next week, the 2010 NCAA basketball season will tip off with a game between Georgia College and Mercer University. Other tournaments will soon follow and will largely be ignored here on these pages. Why? Because [...]
At the halfway point of the Fantasy Football season, Karen Handel has reclaimed her lead over all others with a 5-1 record in the Peach Pundit Invitational. Overall points leader Rob Teilhet is in second place with his 4-2 record, followed by David Shafer and John Monds, also with 4-2 [...]
Below is a “direct cut and paste of an email”. This of course means I moved everything around to make your candidate look bad and/or discount their overwhelming victory. I probably also mis-spelled a few names on purpose, and am generally shilling for “my candidate” by posting this.
I’m going out [...]
Feel free to let your randomness out all over the place here.
Open Thread:
[...]We’ve all had that friend, neighbor, or co-worker. They moved to Georgia because jobs were here and weren’t at home. They like the weather, and the cost of living is good. And people are even friendly here. Yet they can’t resist constantly telling you how much better they did things [...]
Apparently, Sen Lee Hawkins sees no humor in this story.
From his press release:
Sen. Lee Hawkins Denounces Corps For Release of Lanier Water
(Gainesville)—State Sen. Lee Hawkins today blasted the Army Corps of Engineers as “shortsighted” and for their plan to drain as much as 18 inches from Lake Lanier.
“The [...]
The months leading up to early voting in Atlanta’s municipal elections were less than kind to City Council member and candidate for City Council President Caesar Mitchell. He was carjacked outside his mother’s home, but was uninjured. During the weekend of rains that brought Atlanta our [...]
From a MacGinnitie Press Release:
Republican candidate for Georgia Secretary of State Doug MacGinnitie today launched an effort to increase opportunities for active duty service members and Reservists serving on active duty to participate in Georgia elections.
Research done by the Heritage Foundation in 2008 shows that 75-80% of military voters from [...]
About a week after finally getting Lake Lanier to full pool for the first time in years, the Army Corps of Engineers has decided the lake has too much water.
Yep, that’s right. Our (for the next 3 years) cup runneth over.
Heavy rain is expected Friday, so they’re going [...]
Finally had these emailed to me, from a straw poll conducted on October 15th. Results are a direct cut & paste from an email. Interpret the significance at your own risk.
Governor
John Oxendine 29
Karen Handel 16
Nathan Deal 7
Eric Johnson 4
Ray McBerry 11
Austin Scott 10
Chapman Jeff [...]
Falcons game went late last night, but was worth every minute.
Looks like the rest of the front page posters are moving slow this morning as well. Talk among yourselves until we get some new items posted.
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