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Thursday, July 5, 2007
Dissing the local barbershops: In Atlanta, Edwards out-sourced his stylist — to the tune of $1,250
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Today’s Washington Post has an interview with Joseph Torrenuev of Beverly Hills, the hair stylist for Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards.
The article has these paragraphs:
Torrenueva said one haircut during the 2004 presidential race cost $1,250 because he traveled to Atlanta and lost two days of work.
“He has nice hair,” the stylist said of Edwards in an interview. “I try to make the man handsome, strong, more mature and these are the things, as an expert, that’s what we do.”
Broun weighs in on the Athens-Augusta feud
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
You know that on Monday, Jim Whitehead, the front-running Republican candidate in the 10th District congressional run-off, declared that the July 17 vote was a contest to see which city would stay in the driver’s seat: Athens or Augusta.
Whitehead complained that he couldn’t get a fair shake in the Athens newspapers, who treated him as a spawn of Satan.
Today, the editorial page of the Athens Banner-Herald disparages Whitehead’s characterization of the race as a “shameless attempt to get votes.”
Meanwhile, Whitehead’s opponent, Paul Broun of Athens, also a Republican, said Whitehead’s remarks “prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Mr. Whitehead is a regional candidate who is not interested in representing all of the people. I got my M.D. from the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta,” Broun said. “And thoroughly enjoyed the time I lived there.”
As far as Whitehead’s treatment in the newspapers, Broun reminded all who would listen that one of Whitehead’s political consultants said after the first round of voting last month, “We are coming to Athens and bringing hell with us.”
Broun has two tasks over the next 12 days: First, to generate outrage among disaffected Republican voters and move them to the polls. Secondly, to do the same among Democrats who think they have no dog in the hunt.
A Fourth of July straw poll for Republicans
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Year after year, the Fourth of July gathering by the Cobb County GOP is one of the largest in the state. On Thursday, 247 cast votes in a presidential straw poll.
To no one’s surprise, Fred Thompson — who has a fund-raiser in Atlanta on Friday — was the leader. But the fact that Ron Paul and Mitt Romney finished second and third may be significant. Possibly. It was just a straw poll.
Jason Shepherd, the Cobb coordinator of the Georgia Draft Fred Thompson Committee, sent us the break-down:
Fred Thompson: 30 percent;
Ron Paul: 17 percent
Mitt Romney: 15 percent
Mike Huckabee: 13 percent
Newt Gingrich: 12 percent
Rudy Giuliani: 10 percent
John McCain, Tom Tancredo, Jim Gilmore: 1 percent
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