Republicans for Roy, the gun dude from Alabama, and other matters
The campaign of Democratic nominee for governor Roy Barnes has announced the formation of a steering committee of “Republicans for Roy.”
There have been clues that this was coming.
One hint was this Barnes ad on the web site of National Review, a popular Internet watering hole for conservatives:
In announcing his “Republicans for Roy” committee and its web site, Barnes made specific reference to Tom Perdue, the enfant terrible of the Georgia Republican party – and U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss’s former campaign manager.
Perdue this week called on Republican nominee Nathan Deal to withdraw – citing the candidate’s failure to reveal his dicey financial situation.
The members of “Republicans for Roy.”
– Curtis B. Avery, Jr., a retired cattle farmer in Harris County;
– Gale Buchanan, former U.S. undersecretary of agriculture, a resident of Cook County;
– Carlton E. Joyce, a Chatham County attorney;
– State Rep. Bob Lane of Statesboro, who retires this year after 30 years in the Legislature. Chairman of the House Game, Fish and Parks Committee, Lane gave Barnes $1,000 last December;
– Martin Nesmith, an Evans County businessman and Barnes appointee to the state Board of Regents;
– Berrien County Commissioner Steve Roberts;
– Former Houston County commissioner Larry Snellgrove;
– Charles B. “Charlie” Tanksley, a former Cobb County state senator and a longtime Barnes ally;
– Lisa Underwood of Lee County, the former co-chair of the Republican caucus within the Georgia Association of Educators;
– and Jeff Wainwright of Taylor County, past president of the Georgia Peach Council.
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But Republicans – supporting other Republicans – may have made the most entertaining news of the day. Dale Peterson, the rifle-slinging candidate for agriculture commissioner in Alabama, has pushed out a YouTube attack on Roy Barnes – very similar to the one that made him an Internet sensation this summer:
Chris Schrimpf, spokesman for the Republican Governors Association, says his group is paying the bills on this one.
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Gary Scott Holt, creator of a new Georgia political blog called The Scott Papers, says he’s filed an ethics complaint against Democratic nominee for governor Roy Barnes, for Barnes’ alleged failure to disclose expenditures as a lobbyist in 2007, while representing the Atlanta Beltline.
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Blue Fox
September 23rd, 2010
7:14 pm
Maybe we should import Dale Peterson to run for Governor, replacing Deal.
Roy is the Only Choice
September 23rd, 2010
7:21 pm
As if “Republicans for Roy” needed an exclamation point, just after 7 PM the AJC reported that Nathan Deal’s campaign just contradicted themselves from last week with a new financial disclosure. Nathan Deal is either incompetent, dishonest or both. No wonder Republicans are coming to their senses.
td
September 23rd, 2010
7:28 pm
skydog, I have never asked a Dem to leave the state. I have only asked these libs on here that hate the people and this state why they hang around since they seem so miserable. I will keep asking the ones that want think Georgians are a bunch of hicks or whatever other running down of the state.
td
September 23rd, 2010
7:34 pm
skydog, You can disagree with me all you want to and I will defend your right to freedom of speech with every ounce of energy I have. I may not like it but you have the right to say it. I just do not understand these people who think if you do not agree with them then you must be some christian, redneck, uneducated hick from the south and therefore the state of Georgia sucks. If these people feel this way then why do they just not leave and go someplace where they will be happy. Life is to short to be that bitter.
When Hell Freezes Over
September 23rd, 2010
7:36 pm
Roy is the Only Choice:
No real Republican is going to vote for Barnes. They might vote Libertarian or they might abstain from voting in that race if they do not choose to vote for Deal – but they won’t vote for Barnes. Roy in no choice at all, much less “the only choice”.
td
September 23rd, 2010
7:40 pm
When Hell Freezes Over, You are absolutely correct and this is why I have been calling these people out as the imposter’s that they are.
Think B4 U Vote
September 23rd, 2010
7:41 pm
The Snark,
What about “Read my Lips-No New Taxes”.
Then Bush compromised, and was voted out of office beaten to a pulp by the folks he compromised with.
When you compromise way your rights, you do not have the option of getting them back when you desire.
And there are many instances where you in your day to day life do not compromise. So let’s not pretend we go around all day and do nothing but compromise, ok?
Ralph Norton,
The only people that do not want to follow the Constitution are those that want the government to do more for them at the expense of someone else.
The only buzzword you need to understand it what is and isn’t allowed under the Constitution. And just because it is passed into law still does not make it Constitutional.
Since you are such a Constitutional Scholar, perhaps you can explain to the former bondholders of GM and Chrysler how the 14th amendment applied to them when the judge deprived them of their assets.
Truth
September 23rd, 2010
7:45 pm
Didn’t Deal resign rather than face an ethics investigation?
Does that pass you smell test, td?
Rafe Hollister
September 23rd, 2010
7:46 pm
Jim: What an impressive list of folks, never heard of any of them except Rerun Roy’s Partner.
BTW: My son Rafe, Jr. (the boys got no moxie or spunk at all) is one of them drug smoking no account librul Republicans, but he said it would be an honor if you would ask Roybama to add his name to the list. Might give the list some gravitas.
The Centrist
September 23rd, 2010
7:55 pm
I wonder if Sheriff Arpaio of Arizona is going to support Deal. It appears that the Sheriff of “Pink-Jail-Uniforms” fame has been using office money as a personal slush fund to the tune of $16 million per year.
findog
September 23rd, 2010
7:57 pm
I bet if Auburn was set to whup up on UGA before the election we wouldn’t see this bull
skydog
September 23rd, 2010
7:59 pm
td,
Let me put predjudice and bigotry in perspective for you.
I have relatives in south Georgia who think anybody who lives above Macon is a Yankee and should move. You think I`m kidding? Drive down to Morgan and tell`um your are a Republican from Atlanta and you are there to help. Keep the car running.
td
September 23rd, 2010
7:59 pm
Truth, I think Deal had formed a committee to run for Governor way before he was ever formally charged. If you want to talk about smell test: What was the name of the organization that brought the charges to the ethics committee in the first place? And who is the major contributor to fund said organization? Does that smell just a little?
dagnabit
September 23rd, 2010
8:05 pm
Bart. What makes you think Georgia deserves better than Deal? Deal is exactly what Georgia deserves.
td
September 23rd, 2010
8:07 pm
skydog, What does this have to do with prejudice and bigotry? Your relatives have the right to feel Atlanta Republicans are really not conservatives or RINO Yankees. They are correct in a lot of instances. I am willing to bet I would be welcome with my southern accent.
dagnabit
September 23rd, 2010
8:08 pm
With Deal as governor, Georgia can support all the other states in the union.
Tech Man
September 23rd, 2010
8:10 pm
Ralph
September 23rd, 2010
7:14 pm
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Paid for by the GA 400 tolls if RetreadRoy had his way.
T Knight
September 23rd, 2010
8:16 pm
Any true conservative will write in Karen Handel’s name. The above mentioned people were probably RINO’s who used “Republican” as a way of getting into office, or some sort of power.
Truly, any person of true character will write in Karen Handel.
skydog
September 23rd, 2010
8:20 pm
That is my point td.
They may like you well enough, but because of their “Yankee Line” being Macon, you would never be fully accepted and some would say you should move. That`s what they believe. You are an outsider.
I`m much more open minded and draw my line at Lake Spivey.
Point being, you ain`t as IN as you think you are.
td
September 23rd, 2010
8:28 pm
skydog, I can show my pedigree where my GGG Grandfather and his brothers fought in the 65th Georgia regiment, Army of the Tennessee during the war of Yankee aggression. I still think I would be accepted. I still don’t see where this makes them a bigot?
My Little Brain's Froze Over
September 23rd, 2010
8:30 pm
Who are td and When Hell Freezes Over to try to dictate who should stay and who should leave this noble flower of the South? I will leave when i am effing ready and no blog loudmouths will tell me when.
Silly little twits.
td
September 23rd, 2010
8:30 pm
T Knight, Good try imposter. Any true conservative is not going to split the vote and get Barnes elected.
TnGelding
September 23rd, 2010
8:30 pm
How in the world is Deal leading in the polls? There must not be too many Republicans for Roy. What about the Libertarian candidate?
Mr. Grumpy
September 23rd, 2010
8:34 pm
Boy, you guys make it sound like Dem Governors appointing Repubs to state boards and Repub Governors appointing Dems to state boards is a new thingor there’s something wrong with it. Been happening in Georgia and a lot of other states for a long, long time. Remember Zell Miller? Remember him appointing Johnny Isakson to Chair the State Board of Education?. Recently, your Repub Governor Perdue appointed Democrat Rob Teilhett former member of the GA House Of Representatives (and “hubby” to former Perdue spokesperson Heather Hedrick Teilhet)to run the Indigent Defense Council. It happens. The smart politicians do it frequently; the dumb ones don’t.
My Little Brain's Froze Over
September 23rd, 2010
8:35 pm
That said, of course i left Dicksie the moment i could! Still fun to watch the politics, and see the race to the bottom proceed apace. It is rapidly gaining momentum and soon small-minded td’s and Brain Freeze will have their commands in the Tea Party Taliban and can push people around for real, and not just on some blog or in their little minds. Maybe Retard Soldier can be put back into service as well; surely he could serve some purpose.
td
September 23rd, 2010
8:36 pm
My Little Brain’s Froze Over, When did anyone tell you to leave? If you are miserable and want to stay with people you do not like, because conservatives have always and will run this state, then that is your business. I am just trying to look out for the health of all these depressed people and keep the states healthcare cost down. Depressed people are much more likly to have a premature stroke or heart attack and life is to short to be miserable all the time.
My Little Brain's Froze Over
September 23rd, 2010
8:38 pm
Surely he could serve some purpose… maybe ringing a big bell or something
td
September 23rd, 2010
8:42 pm
My Little Brain’s Froze Over, I could only wish and pray that someday, someone important would allow me the joy of serving consrvatives to make Georgia a truly great state.
Bad Deal
September 23rd, 2010
8:43 pm
Republicans for Roy is sillier than Jews for Jesus. The AJC could have helped the RNC by breaking all this news BEFORE the primary, and ELEPHANTS NEVER FORGET.
My Little Brain's Froze Over
September 23rd, 2010
8:43 pm
Well td, now that you explain that you were just trying to help people i guess it is a good thing.
skydog
September 23rd, 2010
8:46 pm
Stick with us td, you may get it.
My relatives have drawn their “Yankee Line” at Macon for unknown reasons? They don`t care who your “Yankee” relatives are. To them, location trumps EVERYTHING. These people believe what they believe for no good reason.
That was my parallel.
td
September 23rd, 2010
8:55 pm
skydog, I got your point the first time (just giving you a hard time). I know a great deal of people like this. My Grandfather drove trucks for 30 years in a union shop and he would never vote for a republican, even after all those conservatives Dems changed parties. I worked at Lockheed in the early 80’s and went to a union meeting when they decided to support Mondale, even after he said he was going to cut defense spending. I told them they were crazy to vote against their own self interest but they did not care, dems were union supporters.
findog
September 23rd, 2010
8:59 pm
skydawg, macon’s the gnat line
I-20 is the mason-dixon yellar yankee line
all the grady babies is born yankee
Larry
September 23rd, 2010
9:04 pm
No decent person would ever support Roy Barnes – even against Nathan Deal.
atlmom
September 23rd, 2010
9:11 pm
I know people who told me they ‘couldn’t possibly vote for Karen Handel once they found out she had no college degree.’ I’m sure they are regretting their Deal vote now. At least, I hope they are.
Ralph
September 23rd, 2010
9:15 pm
This won’t make AJC headlines like the biased AJC/WSB/COX/Democrat poll:
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Nathan Deal remains slightly ahead of Democrat Roy Barnes in the race to be the next governor of Georgia.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Georgia Voters finds Deal with 45% support, while Barnes earns 39% of the vote when leaners are included. Libertarian candidate John Monds trails with five percent (5%). Six percent (6%) prefer another candidate in the race, and five percent (5%) are undecided.
atlmom
September 23rd, 2010
9:15 pm
TKNIGHT!!!! BART!!!!
We are well past the deadline for write in candidates. DO NOT write in a candidate’s name unless they are a declared candidate (and they are not).
IF YOU WRITE IN THE NAME OF A PERSON WHO HAS NOT DECLARED – THE VOTE IS THROWN AWAY.
curious
September 23rd, 2010
9:15 pm
Roy, Roy, Roy: You have done a real hatchet job on Nathan. I hear he’s really mad. At your next debate, you better watch your back. If anyone ever deserved a wedgy, it’s you Roy.
In fact, I’m gonna laugh all the way to the polls with that image in my head.
Mike
September 23rd, 2010
9:35 pm
I’m a teacher in Georgia. I am NOT voting for Roy Barnes.
i be a jawja techer
September 23rd, 2010
9:46 pm
i be a hih scool techer and wil not vote for lyin Roybama barness
Mike
September 23rd, 2010
9:54 pm
now we know why the state of alabama is last in everything but football.
Hannah
September 23rd, 2010
9:59 pm
I refuse to vote in this election because all of the candidates are big fat losers, but as a Republican, I would most likely vote for Barnes if my other option was Deal. But Barnes doesn’t deserve it, either.
Fred
September 23rd, 2010
10:28 pm
My Little Brain’s Froze Over
September 23rd, 2010
8:35 pm
That said, of course i left Dicksie the moment i could!
+++++++++
I for one sir, thank with my whole heart. You didn’t by chance take anymore damn Yankees with you did you? Had I had advance warnings, I would have financed your return.
Fred
September 23rd, 2010
10:39 pm
I voted for President bush for his second term, not because I thought he was any good, (I knew he was crap) but because I felt he was better than John (s)Kerry.
It is one of the few things in my life I have ever done that I am ashamed of. I won’t repeat the mistake. I won’t vote for Barnes because he is “not as bad” as that crook Deal. I haven’t decided if I will throw a protest vote to the Libertarians (a party that lost it’s way when Harry Brown died) of just leave the Governors part of the ballot blank. But I can’t vote for either one of those pieces of foul dung.
I COULD have thrown a vote for either Karen Handel of Thurmond Baker though. As a matter of fact, I DID vote for one of them. Which one, isn’t important since both honorable candidates lost to scum bags. Someone has already made the correct comment in this blog: We Georgians DESERVE what we get because WE decided who the candidates for Governor were going to be.
ga female
September 23rd, 2010
11:24 pm
The ignorance is so thick in this state, it is so clear why the top employers had to import the best and brightest from up north to run things for them. We will eventually all leave you all to drown in the hole you have dug during the past 7.5 years.
Road Kill
September 24th, 2010
1:28 am
Why would Governor Barnes thwart an investigation into a pedophile who ran a cult in Putnam County? http://bibbrepublicanparty.com/
Noo Corrupt Deal, Noooo King Roy
September 24th, 2010
6:53 am
Corrupt Bankrupt Washington Politician.. Deal
Failed Governor..Barnes
NONE OF THE ABOVE…John Monds.
I am voting for the only HONEST man in this race, None Of The Above Monds.
Dale Peterson will kick your rear, steal your wife if you vote for King Roy — Peach Pundit
September 24th, 2010
8:59 am
[...] H/T Jim Galloway [...]
John K
September 24th, 2010
9:12 am
Is that a real live cowboy against Barnes?! Yeeehaw!
Seriously, how pitiful and desperate the Georgia GOP must be to do this. Of course, they need to deflect as much as they can away from that scumbag they nominated.
no home for deal
September 24th, 2010
11:38 am
he AJC also reported the following about Nathan Deal’s business partner; “Kenneth Cronan, while serving on the board that regulates used auto parts dealers, ran a business that collected fees running into six figures every year for allowing state workers to inspect vehicles at his Gainesville salvage yard.” If Nathan Deal is his partner then he also shared in these profits. This guy is totally corrupt.