Omitted GOP rival in 4th District takes to Twitter
A political novice running for Georgia’s 4th District on Wednesday night demonstrated her social media savvy, using her Twitter account to gain access to a political forum she said intended to exclude her.
“I just sent out one tweet,” Liz Carter, who is white, a Republican and a long shot to win the heavily Democratic district told AJC staff writer Steve Visser. The district represents portions of DeKalb, Gwinnett and Rockdale counties.
On Saturday night, Carter said she was told she would not be allowed to participate in a debate hosted by “Newsmakers Live” at the lounge Vino Libro in southeast Atlanta. Carter claimed on her Facebook page that the producers of the Web site, which planned to run a live video feed of the debate, told her only black candidates would be involved, including Cory Ruth, an African-American running in the GOP primary. Read the complete story.
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6 comments Add your comment
Road Scholar
June 3rd, 2010
11:08 am
The race comment is he said, she said, unless she has it on tape. Otherwise, if she registered and paid her running fee, as should have the other candidates, she should have been invited to attend.
Not A Republican and Not For Any Republicans
June 3rd, 2010
11:15 am
There are two kinds of Republicans – millionaires and suckers. She may be well qualified but she’s a Republican and have yet to meet a Republican that cares about anyone other than millionaires.
Tara
June 3rd, 2010
2:53 pm
Newsmakers hosted 2 shows with white mayoral candidate Mary Norwood, alongside a host of African American candidates. They would not exclude a candidate because of their race.
It’s Only Racism If… « Obi’s Sister
June 3rd, 2010
10:00 pm
[...] I’d spoken with the organizer of the group. He was disdainful, at best, that the idea of that a single tweet by an omitted candidate could generate such, as he put it, “guerrilla warfare.” I wonder what rock he’s [...]
Maruchi
June 4th, 2010
12:02 am
The whole thing is being blown out of proportion. There was another candidate from district 4 there on the republican side Victor Armendariz he is a Mexican American he was introduced to the crowd. As far as I know Mr. Armendariz didn’t have to stoop to tweeting accusations of racism to be included. He just showed up.
Mr Freedom
June 12th, 2010
1:35 pm
Whenever a candidate is a threat to the Washington DC corrupt power structure, count on the AJC and the left to paint them as a newcomer, small state governor, actor, etc. This just proves we should vote for her to regain our country from the insiders.