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Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Romney in town to serve up ‘dogs with some Iowa mustard
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Mitt Romney effort in Georgia shifts from fund-raising to flesh-pressing at noon Wednesday.
The Republican presidential candidate will be passing out free hotdogs at the Varsity in downtown Atlanta. He’s guaranteed a yellow-jacketed mob of starving grad students from Tech.
This is Romney’s first public event in Georgia, part of a 14-state tour this week to capitalize on his first-place finish in the Iowa straw poll this weekend. Florida and South Carolina are also on Wednesday’s agenda.
Polling information in Georgia has been scarce. A mid-July poll by InsiderAdvantage put Romney at 9 percent, behind Fred Thompson, Rudy Giuliani and John McCain.
But as of July, Romney had raised more Georgia money than any presidential candidate, Democrat or Republican.
And regardless of Wednesday’s Varsity event, he’s still got Georgia on his mind as an ATM, with fund-raising events scheduled here on Aug. 28 and 29. No details on those yet.
When trying to pin down Jack Ellis, you have to be continent-specific
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Deep in August, the political news is scarce. So please send a thank-you note to the city of Macon for keeping the rest of Georgia entertained.
Mayor Jack Ellis’ flirtation with international diplomacy continues to stir the pot. The Telegraph reports that two Macon city council intend to block the mayor from taking any advantage of his recent declaration of solidarity with Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez.
They plan to introduce a resolution to forbid “city funding of travel to any country certified by the U.S. Secretary of State as not fully cooperating with counter-terrorism efforts or designated as a state sponsor of terrorism.”
Ellis couldn’t be reached for comment. He’s in Africa.
Towery: Vick, too, is working toward a plea agreement
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Matt Towery of InsiderAdvantage has these sentences about Falcons quarterback Michael Vick up on his web site:
“Informed sources told InsiderAdvantage that Vick’s attorneys had been working to gain a plea agreement that would potentially result in a sentence of mere months rather than the possible years he could serve in prison if found guilty of the charges.
One source said that the Vick legal team’s strategy was to keep the severity of the Falcons quarterback’s sentence to a minimum in hopes that he could “in a year or so” return to the NFL. But sources also told InsiderAdvantage that any return would likely “not be as a Falcon.”
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