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Friday, May 25, 2007
Hard to know which stings worst
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
We got a call from Gail Gitcho, the Mitt Romney campaign’s deputy press secretary for regional media, about that item we ran last weekend which said Romney had confused Ralph Reed with another Republican associated with the religious right, Gary Bauer, at his recent Atlanta fundraiser.
Romney’s campaign doesn’t dispute that the former Massachusetts governor had trouble identifying Reed. But according to Gitcho, Romney mistook Reed for South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer, with whom he’d just met, and not Gary Bauer, as our sources recalled.
Gary Bauer is a friend of Romney and has been a guest in his home, so he wouldn’t mistake him for Reed, Gitcho said.
Like Reed, by the way, Andre Bauer has stirred some controversy in South Carolina, such as getting arrested for speeding on his way to a Senate session. But unlike Reed, he was just elected to his second term as lieutenant governor.
The governor is ready to put his signature to the Feb. 5 presidential primary
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
We just got word that Gov. Sonny Perdue will hold a Tuesday ceremony to celebrate his signing of S.B. 194, a bill that will move Georgia’s presidential primary next year from March to Feb. 5.
Georgia will be joining 20 other states, including New York and California, that have moved their dates to create something like a national primary. Florida has sparked a national controversy by shifting its primary to Jan. 29.
Because Bible-based conservatives need to rock, too
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Never let it be said that home-schooled kids are immune from teen-aged angst.
Peachpundit.com found it first, but here’s a link to a Youtube video put together by Jordan Greene, the 15-year-old son of 10th District congressional candidate Bill Greene.
The video opens with Greene the father, a conservative Republican, at a family Bible study, reading Jesus’ command to love your enemies. Then it shifts to a daydream in which young Jordan Greene mouths the words to the Right Brothers’ “The List” — i.e, “liberals that we can’t stand.”
An IA dream match: Chambliss at 42 percent, Barnes at 40 percent
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
We know, we know. Former Democratic governor Roy Barnes isn’t getting back into politics.
But apparently Matt Towery of InsiderAdvantage wanted to have a little fun.
His monthly opinion survey (conducted May 22-23, MOE 4 percent) says first-term Republican incumbent Saxby Chambliss would have a tough time in a race against Barnes.
IA polling put Chambliss at 42 percent, Barnes at 40 percent, and undecided at 18 percent. That’s a horse race.
Barnes was John Edwards’ escort at last week’s Democratic fund-raiser, making for a wonderful contrast in hair.
But Bobby Kahn, Barnes’ old chief of staff, was eloquent when he expressed the negative likelihood that the ex-governor would re-enter the game on his own behalf. We learned several new words, and will study them for future use.
In race that’s currently more probable, IA also put Chambliss up against Vernon Jones, the Democratic CEO of DeKalb County. In that race, Chambliss drew 48 percent, compared to 31 percent for Jones.
Perhaps the only important fact to carry away from this poll is that in both hypotheticals, Chambliss was under the magical 50 percent mark.
