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DEL.ICIO.USAny similarity to another North Georgia politician?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It felt a little like a flashback.
Cagle, a likely candidate for governor in 2010, was giving a speech about growing up in a single-parent household and talking about his own life.
“I’ve been an underdog all my life,” Cagle said.
Cagle talked about growing up in rural Hall County as a fatherless son to a mother who worked two jobs to make ends meet. He described coming home to dinner with barely enough food to feed one person.
“She taught me the values of hard work. She had to make a lot of sacrifices,” the lieutenant governor said. “I will tell you that life wasn’t easy.”
Cagle’s speech at the Single Parent Alliance and Resource Center last week didn’t exactly bring the house down. But his remarks clearly resonated with his audience.
And it was reminiscent of another lieutenant governor who often talked about his hardscrabble North Georgia childhood and the single mother who raised him when he ran for governor, and later U.S. senator: Zell Miller.
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By Bruce Wilcox
December 5, 2007 11:26 AM | Link to this
Cagle is no Zel Miller, thankfully.
By Michael H. Smith
December 5, 2007 12:46 PM | Link to this
Thankfully, Lt. Gov. Cagle will likely be our next Governor.
By Justin
December 5, 2007 5:12 PM | Link to this
Can’t you two exchange phone numbers? Or get a life.
By Bruce Wilcox
December 5, 2007 7:34 PM | Link to this
Justin, why don’t you throw in your number too, then you won’t have to read us all the time and offer comments.
Right now, not knowing who the other candidates may be, rumor has it one of our U.S. Senators is interested, I like Cagle, seems like a pretty decent guy.
By Michael H. Smith
December 6, 2007 1:36 AM | Link to this
Hey, Justin… Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa