Political Insider

By meme

April 19, 2006 02:22 PM | Link to this

I love the ad. Don’t know who I am going to support yet, but I do love this ad.

By Mark

April 19, 2006 03:56 PM | Link to this

That’s a good ad. Having Andy Young for the V/O is brilliant. As an opening shot in the campaign…It’s a good one. Both the Governor and Cathy Cox should take notice.

By Eric

April 19, 2006 05:22 PM | Link to this

Is this the same Andy Young that testified for Bill Campbell and urged people to vote for Myron Freeman for Fulton County Sheriff? Should we continue to take his advice?

By Melissa

April 19, 2006 07:22 PM | Link to this

I love the baby and Mark strolling down the hall together. I’m sorry, but you can’t get a better commercial.

By CWK

April 19, 2006 09:34 PM | Link to this

Maybe Cynthia McKinney will be in Taylor’s next ad? She has endorsed the “Big Guy”.

By Louis

April 19, 2006 10:18 PM | Link to this

Hey, maybe Cathy Cox could just post her own opinion of the ad instead of having her yankee, whitebread Howard Dean campaign hacks do it for her.

By Jim

April 19, 2006 10:26 PM | Link to this

All do respect to Andy Young, but Zell Miller is the one who pushed those programs through, not Taylor.

By Gregg M.

April 19, 2006 11:15 PM | Link to this

Mark Taylor should continue to talk about and stand by his decade of strong service to Georgia, and Cathy Cox can, well, she can stand next to a voting machine, I suppose.

By Gregg M.

April 19, 2006 11:16 PM | Link to this

Mark Taylor should continue to talk about and stand by his decade of strong service to Georgia, and Cathy Cox can, well, she can stand next to a voting machine, I suppose.

By R.B.

April 20, 2006 07:13 AM | Link to this

WHAT A GREAT AD!!!

I don’t know Mark—but what I have read about him, I have really been impressed. He seems to be the only one who cares about just regular everday people-like me. He’ll have my vote!

By carol

April 20, 2006 08:24 AM | Link to this

Andy Young lost a lot of credibility with the African American community after his work to make coporations like Wal-Mart and Nike look like saints.
When politicians (or their campaign managers) realize that voters are capable of thinking on their own and do not need an icon or celebrity to tell them who to vote for, then and only then, will we see ads that discuss the real issues.

By TBird

April 20, 2006 09:04 AM | Link to this

The ad is well done without any personal attacks against the opposition. But realistically I think it is going to take some hard hitting to knock Perdue from his thrown. My personal vote is ABS, like the brake system to stop an out of controlled vehicle, Anybody But Sonny.

By Bob

April 20, 2006 09:14 AM | Link to this

Elect Bob Hartley as well. www.bobhartley.com

By Bobby Elrod

April 20, 2006 09:21 AM | Link to this

Considering almost all Georgians consider Hope to be Zell’s baby, this ad reaks of Al Gore’s internet. And anyway, wasn’t Sonny the Senate leader when it was passed? So if/when Zell appears in a Sonny commercial, this will come back and haunt the Big Guy.

By Bobby Elrod

April 20, 2006 09:24 AM | Link to this

Also, while Andy Young may be popular in Atlanta, his word doesn’t carry much weight in the rest of Georgia. And since Atlanta has never been the key to statewide elections, the endorement won’t matter in the general election.

By John Mayall

April 20, 2006 10:13 AM | Link to this

I still say that if Mark Taylor and Cathy Cox teamed up as a Gov/Lt Gov duo, Sonny could start packing his bags right now.

But hey, I’m just a lowly peon so what do I know???

Let the ‘Mean Season’ games began….

By Stephanie

April 20, 2006 10:40 AM | Link to this

Um, Gov. Perdue was against the HOPE Scholarship and even said he personally voted against the Constitutional Amendment that created the lottery. Also, he has tried to cut it since he has been in office. He has no credibility on this issue. THat is like Cathy Cox claiming responsibility for creating he the HOPE scholarship when she was not even in the legislature at the time. JUST CRAZY.

By Casey

April 20, 2006 02:19 PM | Link to this

Was I the only person around in 2002 when a very similar advertisement for Mark Taylor featured Zell Miller saying essentially what Andrew Young said in the new one, that Mark Taylor’s strength and leadership helped get HOPE passed? And is there really any doubt about the resounding support Mark Taylor has had for HOPE since its creation? This campaign is going to be about results…not about who can trot out their spokesboy to bash a statesman like Andrew Young. And just like in 2002, we all gotta remember - Mark Taylor is the Big Guy who gets results for Georgia. (and Cox gets us voting machines with her picture on them)

By Molly

April 20, 2006 02:28 PM | Link to this

And speaking of Cox’s “spokesboy”…wasn’t he still in diapers when his boss invented HOPE while she was doing quickie divorces down in Bainbridge?

By Emily

April 20, 2006 06:13 PM | Link to this

Well Molly, Gregg and Stephanie (haven’t I seen you somewhere before, Steph?), as you well know, Secretary Cox has never claimed to have created the HOPE scholarship. Unlike, well, your boy. It’s getting tiresome trying to make you guys tell the truth on this stuff.

For the rest of you: TAYLOR DID NOT SPONSOR THE HOPE SCHOLARSHIP. There was nothing to do in the Senate to get the lottery passed. That’s why it was a House bill and a House debate. No mention of the BIG GUY in any media until he was running for office in 1998. Convenient. Am I the only one that remembers that the lottery had already passed SIX years earlier?! Political expediency at its best. Not saying Taylor isn’t the best at it—if anyone knows how to manipulate the Good ole Boy network, it’s him. Hopefully, Georgians are smarter than that and will see through his ample smokescreen.

By Johnny

April 20, 2006 06:15 PM | Link to this

You shouldn’t take credit for what you didn’t do. I’ve had it with typical politicans like Mark Taylor. What’s he going to take credit for next? Actually earning an honest living?

By Emily

April 20, 2006 06:20 PM | Link to this

And a couple other things—Remember that stones and glass houses thing? I certainly don’t think folks in the Taylor camp are in ANY position to start throwing stones at Cox staffers. They may be young (and extremely capable), but they sure have careers that won’t go up in, well, flames—so to speak.

Secondly, is there a reason a current picture of Taylor is unavailable for public consumption in TV form? I think we all know the answer to that one. It ain’t just to save money that they had to re-cut that old ad. Won’t get away with that forever, folks.

By Melanie

April 21, 2006 03:09 PM | Link to this

Emily, Since you work on the Cox campaign and it was probably your hair brained idea to come up with this lie, both your and Cox’s credibility is shot.

TAYLOR DID SPONSOR THE LEGISLATION FOR HOPE IT WAS SB 7. They took the exact same word for word version from the House, but Taylor pushed the legislation through both houses. So take your lies to where they belong, the trash.

By Jonathan

April 21, 2006 05:39 PM | Link to this

I am struck by how violent the Taylor folks get at the mere mention of Cathy Cox. It’s like she’s swiping candy from an awfully big baby!

I have a theory that politicians get most mad at each other when there’s little difference between them. Seems to be the case here. Both had some kind of role in early days of HOPE, both voted on same kinds of tax cut bills, health care bills. Since there’s not much difference in their records, I guess all it leaves is a personality fight.

By Casey

April 21, 2006 07:16 PM | Link to this

Wow…Emily gets nasty. Me thinks she doth protest too much!

By Conservativecore

April 21, 2006 07:23 PM | Link to this

Its good to be in the majority. I remember the days when we had to watch the majority party in Georgia (Republicans) eat their young. This is some good viewing. Hey Cathy I wouldn’t get too close to Mark he might be hungry

By Don

April 28, 2006 02:44 PM | Link to this

You know, the closer I look at the Governor’s race on the Democratic side, the more I like Cox. And it largely has to do with the words and actions of Taylor supporters. Anyone that can inspire that kind of mean spiritedness and stupidity doesn’t deserve your vote.

By Don

April 28, 2006 02:44 PM | Link to this

You know, the closer I look at the Governor’s race on the Democratic side, the more I like Cox. And it largely has to do with the words and actions of Taylor supporters. Anyone that can inspire that kind of mean spiritedness and stupidity doesn’t deserve your vote.