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DEL.ICIO.USBannister: I’m running. Not now.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
For Hamlet the question was “to be or not to be.”
In Prizzi’s Honor, Jack Nicholson asked “do I whack her, do I marry her?”
For Charles Bannister, is it “to announce or not to announce?”
We thought we had a scoop Thursday, when the Gwinnett Commission Chairman told the Insider, “I certainly will not hesitate to say that my intentions are to run again.”
We took that to mean Bannister had launched his 2008 campaign for re-election.
After all, Bannister’s 2004 campaign manager B.J. Van Gundy had just sent us a news release from the chairman calling for planning commission meetings to be televised on the county’s cable station.
The news release, by the way, wasn’t printed on county letterhead.
But when we asked Bannister if this was the first press statement of the 2008 campaign, he replied “We’re not in campaign mode. If I would make a decision to run it would be sometime later this year.”
That sounded like a contradiction, so we asked Bannister whether he’d be candidate for re-election next year.
His reply: “At this moment my intentions are to do so (run again), and later this year, I will make my announcement should my decision be the same.
“I am not running right now,” Bannister said.
Did y’all get that?
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By Ralph
March 2, 2007 3:15 PM | Link to this
I wonder what Chuck’s long time business partner and spiritual advisor Bill McKinney thinks about his running again. Anyway, as a big believer in the “lead, follow or get out of the way” theory, he has done neither of the former two thus far, so I’d recommend the latter.
By Joe
March 2, 2007 3:33 PM | Link to this
Mercifully, we only have to count to three on the BOC to get anything accomplished. Charles and Kevin aside, we have three sensible, responsible votes to accomplish this, so whether he runs again or not is a non-issue.
By Jane
March 3, 2007 6:03 PM | Link to this
If Bill McKinney or Jodie Roser roll over and try to implicate Charlie then he will not run. If they go away quietly then it could be a close and interesting race next year.
By Darren K.
March 3, 2007 7:51 PM | Link to this
Lorraine Green will defeat Bannister. This like watching the old roadrunner cartoons in slow motion: everyone else can see the outcome except the roadrunner.
This BOC can’t get anything done, and it’s a problem of bad leadership. Gwinnett county is just listing.