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Friday, October 27, 2006
A race with more geography than most
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
There’s a new twist in the story of that poll commissioned by an anti-immigration group which appeared to have surveyed the old 8th Congressional District rather than the one Rep. Jim Marshall and former Rep. Mac Collins are running in. Steve Camarota with the Center for Immigration Studies left us a phone message late Friday in which he said the poll, which showed Collins up a point over Marshall, was “100 percent correct.�
Camarota said he was told by the Polling Company, which conducted the survey, that only a footnote which listed the counties in the old 8th District was wrong.
“They assure me it is the right 8th District,� Camarota said.
We’ll find out soon.
Cagle’s response: Jim Martin’s a liberal, but “not a bad man”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Casey Cagle, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, now has an ad up responding to the shot that Democratic rival Jim Martin took at him on the predatory lending issue.
See it here.
“Jim Martin is falsely attacking Casey Cagle to hide his liberal record,” the narrator intones. Martin’s alleged misdeeds include voting for a 25 percent increase in the sales tax “on everyone and everything, including the food on your table.”
But you can tell that Cagle, after his race against Ralph Reed, wants to avoid enhancing a reputation for going after the jugular. Says Cagle, to close the ad: “Jim Martin’s not a bad man. But his false attacks and liberal policies are bad for Georgia.”
