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DEL.ICIO.USThe run-off for the 10th ain’t final, but Whitehead’s already focused on Broun
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
When last we checked, there were about eight precincts still uncounted from Tuesday’s 10th District congressional race.
There’s been no concession from Democrat Jim Marlow. That said, the campaign for Jim Whitehead of Columbia County has begun looking at the run-off as a Republican-on-Republican affair.
The front-runner is gearing up for Paul Broun of Athens— who has run in three federal races, but has yet to win one.
We talked this afternoon to Joel McElhannon, one of Whitehead’s consultants. The Whitehead campaign will allege that Broun a) made a 1996 statement in which he allegedly advocated the elimination of Social Security and Medicare; b) wants an end to federal spending on education; and c) doesn’t think disaster relief is a proper role for the federal government.
In other words, Whitehead campaign’s message will be ‘We’re conservative, but Broun’s off the charts.”
This race to July 17 will be brutish, short, and will pit metro Augusta against that high-brow city with the university. “We’re coming to Athens and hell is coming with us,” McElhannon said.
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By Tony
June 20, 2007 4:22 PM | Link to this
Sounds like Jimmy boy is taking on Marlow’s role. Sounds like he’s more for the status quo big government after all.
By Opinionated One
June 20, 2007 5:10 PM | Link to this
Jim is a much better pick, than Broun. I think Jim Whitehead will beat him, and do a much better job for us home folk
By tony r
June 20, 2007 8:37 PM | Link to this
They should change their slogan to:
Whitehead is conservative and broun is just plain nuts!
Sounds like the broun is about to get exposed for what he is.
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