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Monday, October 23, 2006
We know where W will be on Halloween
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
At the insistence of the Secret Service, the White House usually doesn’t announce political trips by the President until a few days before they happen, but these days it’s harder to keep a lid on. Last week a couple of blogs reported, correctly as it turns out, that President Bush will be in Georgia next Monday and Tuesday to campaign a second time for Max Burns and Mac Collins.
That’s two of the last eight days Bush will have to campaign for anybody, in the election which will set the stage for the last two years of his presidency.
That must say something about the administration’s confidence that Bush can still have an impact in Georgia. It’s probably also a tip as to how much Bush is wanted in the dozens of Congressional districts where incumbent Republicans are under fire this year.
But Bush’s visits to Georgia may also be a forerunner of what’s ahead in terms of his relations with Congress in the afternoon of his presidency.
Bush came to Washington with glowing stories about how well he worked as governor with Democrats in the Texas legislature. This year he’s going to make not one, but two campaign appearances against both Jim Marshall and John Barrow, two Democrats who have consistently supported him on Iraq.
If Bush helps to beat Marshall and Barrow and the Republicans still lose control of the House, he’s got an even harder patch in terms of Congressional relations, if that’s possible, than he would have. The next two years are shaping up increasingly as an era of no quarter expected, and no quarter given.
No boobs here: In first ad, Libertarian Hayes gets serious
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Libertarian Party of Georgia is broadcasting its first-ever 30-second TV ads for its gubernatorial candidate, Garrett Michael Hayes.
It’s a small buy, worth about $5,000, that will be scattered on cable TV networks across the state. You can see it here. It’ll show on TV about 700 or 800 times.
Just like there’s a right and left side to Libertarians, there’s a serious and not-so-serious side as well. In Alabama, the Libertarian write-in candidate is campaigning on her cleavage.
Her boobs, says Loretta Nall, are better than the ones currently running the state. This according to the Associated Press.
But in Georgia, Hayes is going the conservative, dead serious route. In his TV spot, he advocates the elimination of the state income tax, “family control� of education, and federal enforcement of the nation’s borders.
�This is the most exciting Libertarian race in the nation,� said Doug Craig, the party’s political director. Polls have put Hayes as high as 9 percent or so.
Craig notes that the best that Libertarians have done came in a Public Service Commission race, in which the Libertarian drew 6.1 percent of the vote statewide.
�It’s going to be hard in a governor’s race to beat that,� Craig said.
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