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DEL.ICIO.USTaylor takes us to Disneyworld
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Mark Taylor, the Democratic candidate for governor, finally gets on the TV screen with a big swipe at Republican incumbent Sonny Perdue. It’s all about the Florida land deal. See it here.
Meanwhile, an Insider Advantage poll has Perdue increasing his lead, 54 percent to Taylor’s 30 percent, with 8 percent for Libertarian Garrett Michael Hayes. Matt Towery’s outfit is subscription-based. If you’ve paid him, you can read the rest here.
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By GLC
October 6, 2006 7:51 PM | Link to this
Sonny’s decision to go negative first is good news as far as I am concerned. It defies conventional wisdom for a front runner and says he and his campaign operatives are concerned about something. It also says they don’t have confidence in the polls, particularly the Towery Poll, which is Republican based.
“There’s a Sonny day dawning in Georgia. As businesses are unleashed and grow, jobs will return. As Georgia recovers, new employers will flood the state.� The words of Sonny Perdue shortly after his astonishing victory in 2002. He put dollars with those words and gave Georgia’s corporate interests over a billion in tax cuts.
An analysis by the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, a nonaligned research group, reveals that Sonny has not been as generous when it comes to the average Georgian. During his tenure we have seen: (1) Georgia’s unemployment rate in 2005 spiked to its highest level since 1993 and exceed the Southern rate for the first time in 25 years; (2) Georgia’s poverty rate increased to 14.4 percent (or 1.2 million) in 2005, placing us among four other states to experience a significant increase in poverty from 2003-2004 to 2004-2005; (3)The 2004-2005 median household income remain $3,000 below pre-2001 recession levels; (4) Georgia’s uninsured rate increased to 18.1 percent, placing us among one of only eight states to experience a measurable increase in the uninsured population.
Why would we want to go back? Quite frankly, because we now know that what we got in 2002 is not what is needed to grow Georgia.