Karen Handel’s e-mails with a Log Cabin Republican
Marc Yeager, former president of the Georgia Log Cabin Republicans, last night sent over three sets of e-mail exchanges he had with Karen Handel – now a GOP candidate for governor — in 2002 and 2003.
See the e-mails: Exchange No. 1, Exchange No. 2, and Exchange No. 3.
Former secretary of state Karen Handel
In Exchange No. 1, Handel expresses her support for domestic partnership.
“As I’ve told you, I do support domestic partner benefits, and confirm my position here, although I do have concerns about a domestic partner registry. Bottom line is that I will work with you and other GLBT leaders to develop workable legislation,” Handel wrote in July 2002, when she was a candidate for a district seat on the Fulton County Commission.
Attached to that e-mail exchange is a draft of a questionnaire to Georgia Equality, a gay rights group.
Handel spokesman Dan McLagan said that the e-mail and the draft of the questionnaire – which McLagan said was never submitted – were composed by Matt Montgomery, Handel’s campaign manager at the time.
“Karen never supported domestic partnership benefits. The one opportunity she had to vote on the issue, she voted against them. And she did not send the e-mail,” McLagan said.
Minutes later, Montgomery called to assume responsibility for the e-mail. He did not remember typing the closing phrase – “fondly, Karen.” Possibly, he said, it was an automated signature on the e-mail.
“I was going back and forth with Marc Yeager at the time,” said Montgomery. He is currently a state employee with the governor’s Office of Highway Safety, which is why — Montgomery said — he had not been drawn into the dispute until Monday.
McLagan said he could not confirm or deny the legitimacy of the other e-mail exchanges.
In Exchange No. 3, Handel wonders at then-congressman Johnny Isakson’s support for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage in the United States.
“I was a little surprised since I always thought that Johnny was fairly moderate about the gay community and specific issues….has that changed???” she asked in 2003, when she was running for the chairmanship of the Fulton County Commission.
Yeager also said that he accepted a check from Handel, for membership in the Georgia Log Cabin Republicans, a GOP group for gays and lesbians.
This is from a May article in the Savannah Morning News:
Deal says she backed adoptions by gay couples and county employee benefits for gay domestic partners – and joined the pro-gay-rights Log Cabin Republicans.
If she did, that might have played well in Fulton County – but wouldn’t with most conservatives likely to vote in the July 20 GOP primary.
But she didn’t support such adoptions or benefits, said spokesman Dan McLagan. Like other Republicans, she spoke to the Log Cabin group, McLagan said, but – as far he knows – didn’t join.
My AJC colleague Aaron Gould Sheinin just got off the phone with Yeager.
Asked if he spoke to Handel face-to-face specifically about domestic partner benefits, Yeager said, “Oh, several times.”
The issue was an important one for Log Cabin Republicans in the race for county commission.
“There were several conversations with myself and Karen, Mansell McCord, who was [former] chapter president at the time, that was a conversation that was fully vetted. There was no question as to where she stood,” Yeager said.
As for her campaign manager’s claim that it was he, and not she, who wrote the July 30, 2002 e-mail indicating support for domestic partner benefits, Yaeger is dubious.
“Clearly, in all the e-mails I have between myself and Karen, there was never, ever any thought I was e-mailing to anybody else other than Karen,” he said. “I have numerous e-mails between Karen Handel and myself unrelated to these issues. Never, ever, was I under the impression there was someone responding for her. I had her personal cell phone number. I was able to reach Karen directlyi. There was never any thought I had at the time. And I still don’t now.”
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D-Boe
June 8th, 2010
12:42 pm
Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!
Georgian
June 8th, 2010
12:43 pm
Ah, Karen Handel will say and do anything to get elected. Can’t trust her at all.
Jim
June 8th, 2010
12:44 pm
Another example of a candidate having to run to the right (or left) in the primary. The fact that she is unable to admit the rather moderate position regarding same sex relationships and benefits speaks volumes about how out of touch the GOP primary electorate is….the Democratic Primary would probably be the same way (except to the left) if they weren’t sick of losing in this state.
goox-and take handel with you...
June 8th, 2010
1:02 pm
Which is it: does she support gay partnerships or is she a (pretty bad) liar?
lmno
June 8th, 2010
1:06 pm
These issues are always where the GOP leaves me. On some issues I can follow their ideas and find common ground. However, on social issues like gay rights, they are always so regimented against tolerance that it becomes a deal breaker for me.
Its the social issues moreso than even the, always stand for the corporation attitude of the GOP, that turns me off to the whole party.
Georgia Voter
June 8th, 2010
1:07 pm
“And she did not send the e-mail,” McLagan said.
Well her names on it. (”Fondly, Karen”)
Either way Karen Handel is a liar.
You Asked
June 8th, 2010
1:09 pm
I am a very religious (personally) and conservative (fiscally) person and I’ve voted GOP since the 1980’s. However (ARE YOU LISTENING GOP?) if the GOP and DNC only provide me with a choice between different flavors of big brother I’m going to bail on them very quickly.
The GOP needs to avoid being the party that wants to govern my behavior through morality legislation just as the DNC needs to avoid being the party that wants to govern my behavior through income redistribution.
Barry
June 8th, 2010
1:11 pm
Bad thing is, I would have supported Handel if she’d just been honest about it. The whole gay rights thing is moronic for the Republicans anyway. But now that she’s clearly lying, scratch her off the list.
Conservative Democrat
June 8th, 2010
1:12 pm
As Jim @ 12:44 suggested, this story says as much about the Republican primary as it does about Mrs. Handel’s personal character. Kudos to Galloway for pursuing this information. One of the most substantive pieces of political reporting from the AJC in weeks.
Matt Montgomery, former Handel staffer, hit by bus
June 8th, 2010
1:12 pm
[...] According to Jim Galloway of the AJC, Karen Handel’s campaign is attributing her recently-revealed correspondence with gay activists—and submission of a gay rights survey—to a former staffer, Matt Montgomery. [...]
Art Vandalay
June 8th, 2010
1:14 pm
Who cares? Oh my god! Gays getting married not on my watch! Whats next people marrying trees, the hippies would probably like that! Gays are the down fall of the union run for the streets, men marrying men, women marrying women, dogs and cats living together…mass hysteria! Oh wait it is completely f*%$ing irrelevant what her stance is on this because you SHOULDN’T LEGISLATE MORALITY. A government on any level has no right to tell anyone who can and cant get married, why don’t we just let the government arrange ALL our marriages gay or straight because they really need a bigger presence in our personal lives. I love the Republicans, “smaller government”,”less intrusion”, “don’t tread on me”, “keep government out of our lives and homes” unless its a man marrying a man, oh no government needs to get involved in that s@*t.
Cutty
June 8th, 2010
1:20 pm
GOPers are for limited government, except for the bedroom.
Art Vandalay
June 8th, 2010
1:21 pm
Lets just go ahead and give the Governor’s office to Oxendine so we can get on back to 1860 where he belongs. If we go ahead and call this race now we can get a head start on paving over every inch of the state, we can beat the nightmarish traffic that his transportation plan will create, we can go ahead and get started on demolishing Atlanta’s thriving and historic intown neighborhoods, after all ViHi is SUCH an eye sore, you know what would make it better? Thats right an elevated highway right over the top of the blasphemous heathens to get us from the airport back to the scenic beauty of Duluth without having to risk life and morality by driving through all those gays and brown people in downtown Atlanta! Yay Ox! And under the over passes of our new shiny 27 lane super highway we can create camps for everyone that doesn’t think like us! Oh, and for people that like mass tranist, ‘mass’ transit hahaha yeah right commies let’s just call them the people’s red line to socialism!
Karen Loses
June 8th, 2010
1:24 pm
Poor Matt, the fall guy. Did he take advice from John Edward’s campaign manager, who claimed to be the father of Edward’s child? BAD choice of an alibi, Karen. No one is buying it.
Michael Marr
June 8th, 2010
1:25 pm
Yaaawwwn.
DH
June 8th, 2010
1:25 pm
Two-faced lying creep.
DH
June 8th, 2010
1:30 pm
By the way, I’m sure Governor Perdue put no pressure on state employee Matt Montgomery to take one for Perdue’s Team Handel.
And I’m sure Matt expects no favorable payback if Karen Handel is elected governor.
Jenny Craig
June 8th, 2010
1:38 pm
Karen Handel needs to drop about 30 pounds like Sonny did.
Bobby
June 8th, 2010
1:40 pm
Handel’s new motto: Liar, liar, pants on fire!
goox-and take handel with you...
June 8th, 2010
1:45 pm
The issue is the LYING. If she really is a moderate on some social issues (gay rights, embryonic science), then just be honest about it. But instead, she has been caught in a lie and cover-up. Next please…
Aquagirl
June 8th, 2010
1:49 pm
Handel’s new motto: Not a big enough @#$hole to be the Republican candidate!
Jim really nailed this one, the AJC still has reporters on staff. What a pathetic picture of the Republican party consuming itself pandering to the right-wingers.
Truth-Serum
June 8th, 2010
1:52 pm
You are scared to write about stances on illegal immigration. Why do we just clean up the community’s red light district and sexual perversion as well as stopping and reversing the onslaught of illegal freeloaders who have lowered the quality of life and burdened us with outrageous taxes while lowering the compensation of our wages… Is this what Mr Obama meant by redistributing the wealth? Taking from the lower middle classes and giving to the welfare dependent illegal aliens? Gee, Now thats change, I believe. Thanks obama. Thanks for rewarding me for being hardworking and honest. Azz hole!
No ms handle we need someone who is willing to clean up Georgia not promote sexual perversion!
Debdoes
June 8th, 2010
1:52 pm
Food for thought: Domestic Partnership does not only pertain to gays….what about heterosexual unmarried couples sharing the same home? Some insurance companies support this concept and some other groups (AAA) do not. This has to change. p.s. Her weight has nothing to do with the story above, so back off pea for brains!
Art Vandalay
June 8th, 2010
1:52 pm
Guy’s we should give her a break, Jesus teaches us to give people second chances. Sure she spewed satan’s message of homosexuality but she now realizes the error of her ways and has corrected herself and stepped back on the path of christian values! Now she realizes that we should accept all through christ’s love except those who don’t think like us! To those who don’t share our values or faith we should pray they burn for eternity but in the mean time we can deny them basic human and constitutional rights!
The General
June 8th, 2010
1:53 pm
The Gop’ers are running out of feet to shoot and mouths to stick them in. God, I’m dreading the next four years.
DrivebyDawg
June 8th, 2010
1:55 pm
Folks it has nothing to do with her support, or not, of gay rights. As she likes to point out in her campaign stump speeches – this race is about ethics. She’s right and ethical people don’t lie.
Art Vandalay
June 8th, 2010
1:58 pm
Hey since we are ignoring the parts in the constitution about men being created equal, the right of the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness and all that other BS that some marxist at independence hall snuck in there why don’t we pray reeeeal hard that we can ignore the part about term limits too! Then maybe we can make Bush president for life! The only way to prevent imperialism, communism, and uphold democracy is to make sure liberals can’t have their voice heard, duh! Soooometimes we have to squash the voice of the many to uphold the voice of the righteous few!
Teetime
June 8th, 2010
2:03 pm
OK you scum sucking right wingers….. you asked for it. Karen Handel has a heart! Imagine that, in this age of bible thumping, pedophile endorsement accepting, gay hating religious zealot biggots.
Really, who freakin’ cares if she shows compassion ( as our lord and saviour did) for her fellow man. She’s just a woman… and we all know the extreme right in the state of Georgia will do anything…. even endorse a pedophile, rather than support a woman.
Really
June 8th, 2010
2:07 pm
With all the issues facing our state, who cares? It appears that at the end of the day she voted against domestic partner benefits. Isn’t that the true test?
Art Vandalay
June 8th, 2010
2:08 pm
Hey Teetime why don’t you take a look at the Bible! It condemns homosexual relationships everyone knows that! It says nothing about meeting up with a man in an airport bathroom! If the bible said it was wrong then my pastor and congressman wouldn’t do it! It also says nothing about 50th birthday tickle fights with teenage boys, so thats ok too! What is NOT ok is a loving, monogomous, relationship between too consenting adults of the same sex…gross!
Nope
June 8th, 2010
2:13 pm
Art Vandalay… this is not a religious country like say Afghanistan or Iran. It is a Democracy. If you want to live in a Theocracy, I suggest a move to a more intolerant location. And you remind me of the old adage that those who protest too much typically have more to hide.
Marty
June 8th, 2010
2:21 pm
Sorry Karen. You DO remember supporting domestic partnership in Fulton County. Now you’re on the big stage and you’ve made the decision to lie. Now take your ball and go home.
Abe
June 8th, 2010
2:21 pm
Liar! Liar! Log Cabin on fire!
Where's Herman Talmadge when you need him?
June 8th, 2010
2:29 pm
So Handel is hoping the good people of Georgia would rather have a sloppy liar in the Governor’s Mansion than a fiscal conservative who supports domestic partnerships? Instead of alienating one group of Republicans (social conservatives), she’s now eliminated two (social conservatives and social moderates). Good job, Karen.
Jere
June 8th, 2010
2:32 pm
And this is an issue why? So, what if she supports them. There are bigger issues. I for one want to see a governor that can deal with the traffic and the budget. Handel is not getting my support, due to her slanderous attack on Ray McBerry. She also was unable to correctly answer a question about the consitution asked once.
BPJ
June 8th, 2010
2:33 pm
Art Vandalay, good job on the summary of the GOP platform!
Deal and Oxendine’s treatment of Handel is starting to remind us of Mark Taylor’s treatment of Cathy Cox in the Democratic primary 4 years ago………we recall how well that worked out, i.e., getting the nomination as a wounded candidate resented by half of one’s own party.
Cutty
June 8th, 2010
2:33 pm
Nope- This country is a Republic, not a democracy.
The Truth Will Set You Free
June 8th, 2010
2:37 pm
Karen Handel would not know the truth if it slapped her in the face. It is amusing to watch her try to lie her way out of a lie…pathetic. She comes across as nothing more than a politician who cares for nothing other than winning an election…she will do our say anything and this time she got caught. I am sure this will not stop her feeble campaign from trying to deflect and lie all the way to primary day.
Intruder
June 8th, 2010
2:47 pm
Honesty – from a politicia in this day and time? Please! Politicians (and I mean ALL of them) will lie to get or keep potential votes. She is no different than any of the rest of them. If there is one candidate in this race that has not or will not lie, name him/her!
The Truth Will Set You Free
June 8th, 2010
2:50 pm
Intruder, please supply a list of lies by other GOP Gov candidates? I’d really like to see the list!!
Teetime
June 8th, 2010
2:57 pm
Art, Jere, TTWSYF, and all you other McBerry the pedophile supporters, go back to the hole you crawled out of. McBerry is not going to win……deal with it.
DW
June 8th, 2010
2:58 pm
Personally, I don’t care about Mrs. Handel’s stance on gay marriage. However, I do care that she’s honest and upfront with her past position.
John Konop
June 8th, 2010
3:01 pm
Studies show gay bashers are gays in the closet afraid to come out. Hey Nathan Deal was raising money with Mark Foley a gay sexual predator and it seems you had have no issue. I my world a sexual predator gay or straight is an issue.
You should just come out of the closet if that is the issue why you gay bash and trust me must of us will not judge you. Most of us let GOD do that and try the best we can focusing on improving our own issues.
Food For Thought
June 8th, 2010
3:03 pm
Art, I bet you wear a W W J D bracelet or tee shirt don’t you? Remember that Jesus doesn’t see any difference in the sin of a homosexual or the man who judges him. If you consider yourself a christian, they by God act like one, rather than a pseudo christian who sits on his thrown of judgement and casts stones at everyone else. God will judge us all…… he doesn’t need your help!
Cleve
June 8th, 2010
3:08 pm
Let’s face it Georgians, we are screwed no matter who wins the Republican primary. Sonny Perdue has most recently proven that to be elected just lie, lie, lie!! We cannot believe anything any of these Republicans say. Unless, it’s another morality confession of an illicit affair. Oh wait, that’s South Carolina! Sorry. Yes, Sonny Perdue just promised to support teachers. What did he actually do? Sonny has also made how much money on land deals through his office as Governor? Any Democrat will be a much welcomed change at this point!
Worst Fooking Nightmare
June 8th, 2010
3:10 pm
Well, it’s definitley election season here if you hadn’t notticed. Art’s here telling us how the the ‘crats love the poooooooooooooor, gays and blacks! I wonder if the plantation crowd in the ‘crat party will fall for it again this time? If you have ask ……………………
Bill
June 8th, 2010
3:11 pm
How about a compromise on the whole gay marriage issue. Here is my idea -
Government should not sanction Gay marriage…or heterosexual marriage for that matter. It is none of their business. There are issues like property and custody which are the governments business, but those can all be covered by a civil domestic partnership. Let the Government take care if its interest through civil domestic partnerships for any consenting adults. Let churches decide who they want to marry.
Middleaged White Republican Trotsky
June 8th, 2010
3:14 pm
Handel has failed the purity test. She must be destroyed, like a sick kitty from the pound, for the good of the Party. The Party knows best for all, and no deviations from the Party line will be tolerated.
Jaye
June 8th, 2010
3:15 pm
Handel still has a chance to win the Republican primary, but she must decide with integrity a platform she believes in and will support – and stick with it. Otherwise, she will end up like Mary Norwood who was front-runner in the Atlanta mayoral race but waffled on several key issues and lost votes because of it.
Bill
June 8th, 2010
3:16 pm
Art,
I am afraid that satire is lost on this audience.
Bill
June 8th, 2010
3:17 pm
Sonny Perdue is looking real good in comparison to the current republican field.
Ken
June 8th, 2010
3:31 pm
Who really cares….this is all gotcha politics and the candidates are damned if they do, damned if they don’t. Both sides have come up with there no tolerance stance, so how can you win? However since we’re all in an opinion mode, here goes. This should be a societal issue and not a personal choice issue. You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you can get what you need. – I guess the Rolling Stones said it best.
Bubba
June 8th, 2010
3:31 pm
Roy’s loving this.
Art Vandalay
June 8th, 2010
3:38 pm
obviously Bill, I was kind of enjoying it though. I don’t know if it’s satire is lost or that there really are people in parts of this state like that so you can never be too sure.
Art Vandalay
June 8th, 2010
3:39 pm
or maybe they just really do support paving over East Atlanta, who knows.
WAW
June 8th, 2010
3:42 pm
Karen and Ox are not really a threat. The candidate you Republicans had best avoid is Johnson or you’ll not only have Reynolds by the Sea at Jekyll, but Reynolds under the Gold Dome, and Reynolds on the Road, and Reynolds Education. You guys need to put this petty stuff aside and guard us all against a real problem because we’re going have to be voting for Roy in the Democratic Primary and can’t cross over to vote for anybody but Johnson.
Fedup
June 8th, 2010
4:03 pm
The issue is the fact that she is a liar – a bigger issue than the whole opinion/argument regarding GLBT’s and insurance needs
told you so
June 8th, 2010
4:11 pm
your moma has a big butt
love Barry
Debdoes
June 8th, 2010
4:14 pm
Republicans being liars? Should I start listing now all the Repubs in office that have lied and cheated this year?
There is a sickness in GA
June 8th, 2010
4:17 pm
@Bill I agree with you 100%, let the churches do the marrying and the government civil unions.
John Konop
June 8th, 2010
4:25 pm
I think Nathan deal should read this!
Most Homophobes are Gay
Research by US psychologist Prof. Adams of the University of Georgia suggests that 80 percent of men who are homophobic have secret homosexual feelings.
In Prof. Adams’s test, homophobic men who said they were exclusively heterosexual were shown gay sex videos. Four out of five became sexually aroused by the homoerotic imagery, as recorded by a penile circumference measuring device (a plethysmograph).
Prof. Adams’s research was published in the prestigious US Journal of Abnormal Psychology in
1996, with the backing of the American Psychological Association.
Prof. Adams says his research shows that most homophobes “demonstrate significant sexual arousal to homosexual erotic stimuli”, suggesting that homophobia is a form of “latent homosexuality where persons are either unaware of or deny their homosexual urges”.
These findings support the theories that homophobia (fear and hatred of gayness and support for antigay discrimination) is often indicative of repressed, self-loathing homosexual feelings; and that many homophobes subconsciously use anti-gay attitudes as a smokescreen to disguise their own homosexuality.
http://www.ipce.info/library_3/files/homophobes.htm
dawggie stile
June 8th, 2010
4:31 pm
that yager dude sure knows how to burn some bridges. take your ball(s) and go home buddy.
Arthur Blank (eye owns the falcons)
June 8th, 2010
4:31 pm
I want to have sex with Karen Handle, after I finish with Vicki Locke!
HOMO-Disliker!
June 8th, 2010
4:34 pm
Phobia means fear of. I have NO FEAR of Homos, therefore I cannot be a Homophobe. I have a lot of dislike for them, so call me what I am, a “Homo-disliker”
The Truth Will Set You Free
June 8th, 2010
4:41 pm
Hey dawggie stile – Karen Handel dug her own grave…what was “that yager dude” to do while Handel and her campaign staff essentially called him a liar all the time KNOWING that they were IN FACT THE LIARS.
>>>>KAREN HANDEL IS A BLATANT LIAR WHO WOULD WANT A BRIDGE To SOMEONE WITH ABSOLUTELY NO INTEGRITY ANYWAY<<<<
The Truth Will Set You Free
June 8th, 2010
4:44 pm
DAWGGIE… PS maybe Karen Handel should consider taking her ball and going home… who wants to elect an uneducated liar?
No Ox Noo Raw Deal, Nooo Linger Longer Johnson Noooo King Roy
June 8th, 2010
4:46 pm
I still don’t have enough reason to add Handle to my name but there sure plenty of reasons to not vote for the rest..
The Name Says It All..
Fred
June 8th, 2010
4:47 pm
Just out of curiosity HOMO-Disliker, why do you dislike Homo-sexuals? Why do you even care who someone sleeps with? I’m not judging you or condemning you, I’m just trying to understand. I don’t get turned on by another man’s hairy butt, but that doesn’t mean that I dislike anyone who does.
?????
June 8th, 2010
4:52 pm
The Truth Will Set You Free
June 8th, 2010
4:44 pm
I hear the Raw Deal has cash problems, you had better be the 1st one to the bank with your pay check.
No Ox Noo Raw Deal, Nooo Linger Longer Johnson Noooo King Roy
June 8th, 2010
4:54 pm
????? … How can Deal have cash problems after all the took from the Georgia Taxpayer?
Well now
June 8th, 2010
5:13 pm
Fondly, Karen? So Matt Montgomery is a drag queen named Karen in his off hours?
Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis
June 8th, 2010
5:32 pm
More good reasons to vote for DuBose Porter and Carol.
joe robby
June 8th, 2010
5:49 pm
This reminds me of Mark Taylor vs. Cathy Cox in 2006. By ignoring issues and pandering to bigotry in this state, Taylor destroyed himself ultimately. Mark Taylor is a sorry loser. And it looks like these guys are going to follow his path to destruction. Enjoy.
Food For Thought
June 8th, 2010
6:30 pm
It is apparent by most of the responses against Karen Handel, that the republican party is full of MCP’s and women who ask their Ray McBerry supporting husbands who to vote for. The thought of a competent woman, with a proven record of success mind you, is not in their pea brains. Women are supposed to be home with the younguns, hopefully proving her husband like Ox, is potent enough to keep her barefoot and pregnant. Ah such is the life of a tightassed uber christian conservative.
The democrats will fight like hell with each other but will always, always, get out and vote for democrats. Republicans get pissy, then take their toys and go home. Good grief….. no wonder this country is so screwed up.
Concerned
June 8th, 2010
7:10 pm
I have listened to all of these people running and Karen is the best, as far as knowledge and where she wants to take GA…Once a month they line up and give there little speeches…she is hands down the best one….Iam very conservative and they have been trying to label her this way in south ga for a year… Iam sure the AJC is smiling about this it just helps get Roy closer back to the big house….god help us…
Anne
June 8th, 2010
7:23 pm
She talks out of both sides of her mouth.
BobDog
June 8th, 2010
9:44 pm
First, I have voted Republican more than Democrat in my lifetime. I am fiscally conservative, socially moderate. The Republican party has no place for me anymore- at least in Georgia. It is Christian Jihad!
I understand California has a ballot iniative to let everybody run in one primary, Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, etc. The top two vote getters would run off in a general election. This would get the kooks out of the way, both from the far left and from the far right.
I’m disappointed that Karen Handel has to be defensive on the gay rights issue. But, I understand that to be open minded on the subject would be political suicide.
She has my vote.
Barb Bee
June 9th, 2010
1:31 am
This is a REPEAT of something that was tried in 2004 in the SOS race.
Now that women have done so well across the nation the opposition is scared to death of her and are fabricating this trash.
These guys are dancing all around the issues…they don’t say much that specifically supports their charges and INFER a lot! So…they discussed the issue many times. So have I…and I still didn’t agree with them.
Now one of them is “dubious.” I am plenty dubious about their veracity and their motivation for all of this. It sounds to me like revenge because she wouldn’t support them while the Fulton County Chairworman.
John K
June 9th, 2010
8:50 am
Georgia, it’s no longer 1954.
The Truth Will Set You Free
June 9th, 2010
9:20 am
Hey Barb, the FACT is that Karen Handel is the worst kind politician…she has no concept of honor and integrity and would do anything or say anything to win an election. Not the kind of person I want as governor or any other position for that matter.
No Ox Noo Raw Deal, Nooo Linger Longer Johnson Noooo King Roy
June 9th, 2010
10:29 am
The Truth Will Set You Free
Does Deal have cash problems or did he steal enough to self finance?
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11:32 am
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The Truth Will Set You Free
June 9th, 2010
12:53 pm
NoOx, how would I know if Deal has cash problem??? What’s your point anyway? Not sure who I am supporting in the primary… the crop of candidates this year is SORRY!!! Austin Scott… where are you?
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June 9th, 2010
7:07 pm
[...] both assertions. But this week a former president of the group, Marc Yeager, produced copies of three purported e-mail exchanges with Handel in which she endorsed giving benefits to the partners of gay county workers. (None mentioned gay [...]
Just Nasty & Mean
June 9th, 2010
8:21 pm
Indeed, Handel looks like she has packed on 30-40 lbs,. on the rubber chicken circuit. She should start hanging out by the celery tray.
Is is just me, or does Handel keep “stepping in it” left and right? She got tangled up with Ray McBerry, had issues with Ga. Right to Life, and now this stink over Gays.
Combine all that with being closely associated with the likes of Sonny Perdue (Okey Woods, DOT road routes by his property, Fla. land tax relief, Jekyll Island, and Go Fish (for crying out loud)…….and she’s starting to look slimy.
Karen the Quiter
June 10th, 2010
11:15 am
If you would all look at the article discussed here, you will find most of your ramblings do not have anything to do with the matter. It’s Karen Handel that we are talking about by the way. I have worked with and for Mrs. Handel. I do not care for her at all. If you decide to vote for her, please keep this in mind.
She has never completed a position that she has been elected for by the people. Oh I’m Sonny’s Cheif of Staff – but I bet I would make a great commissioner for Fulton County. Quit Sonny and run a campain. Win election, I am Fulton Counties Chair, I have made it – But what’s this, Cathy Cox is running for Govenor opening up the Secretary of State position for election – I would be good at that. Quit Fulton County and run for Secretary of State. I have made it – third in command in this state with just a high school diploma. America really is great – What, the Governor wants me to run for his job, how can that be, I have not finished messing everything up at the Secretary of States office yet. Hide mistakes and obvious blunders in this drawer here – Quit the Secretary of State position and run for Governor what the hell it seems to be working for me.
What if a seat in Washington becomes available before her term is up? She has already proven that she cannot be counted on to fulfill any of the promises made during the campain, or that she even cares about the people who put her there.
When elected to SOS postion: She built a wall in the front office to block her from the public – her constituents. She would never walk anywhere alone – much lilke Sonny, to avoid “Stupid Questions”. People this is not the person you should want in control of education and our Money. She is a liar and should not be trusted.
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June 10th, 2010
2:19 pm
[...] reported by AJC Political Insider Jim Galloway indicate former secretary of state and GOP contender for [...]
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June 10th, 2010
4:17 pm
So, the latest from the Handel campaign seems to be… bottom line she voted against domestic partner benefits on the Fulton Co commission.
This seems to be an admission that… well yes I Karen Handel did pander and lie to gay people to get their votes so I could use them and my position on the Fulton Co. commission as a stepping stone to higher office. I have never lied to the real people of Georgia and I have always preferred to deny any advancement of rights for gays I just lied to them to get where I am today therefore you should make me your next governor because; like I said I would never lie to real Georgians…those gays you know we can use them and toss them out at will. Never mind that I was telling real Georgians that I never said any of those things to gays, or that I joined some gay group…those things were just all part of the master plan and I never really meant any of it… I just had to use the gays otherwise you would not have the privilege of voting for me for governor!
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July 17th, 2010
8:30 am
[...] persist because of a series of leaked e-mails between Handel’s campaign in 2002 and the former president of the Log Cabin Republicans, a [...]