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Saturday, November 4, 2006
They’re getting a bit punchy up in north Georgia
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
If you know Georgia, you know two things about the people who inhabit the hills in the northeast corner.
First, they’re hard-core Bible believers. Second, they’re about as stubborn and contrarian as they come. Occasionally, the two characteristics clash.
For the last month or so, Republicans have concentrated on turning out the evangelical base for state Sen. Nancy Schaefer, and for the two Republican challengers to state Reps. Jeanette Jamieson of Toccoa and Alan Powell of Hartwell, both Democrats.
(See the blog entry below)
The constant base-energizing got to be a bit much for Spooner Phillips and Charlie Shell, who run a financial services business in Hartwell.
They shelled out $800 for 100 or so signs they’ve put out around town: “Wake up. Don’t drink the Kool-Aid�
“I’m Republican, and a church-goer, too,� Phillips said Friday. “Personally, Charlie and I feel that the Republican party is leading people astray. We thought [the signs] would be funny.�
Not everybody thinks so. We caught Powell, the Democratic state representative from Hartwell, on his cell phone. He said that as he’s been driving around the district, he’s been moving any Kool-Aid signs he sees far away from his own.
