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Thursday, May 8, 2008
Barr schedules a D.C. press conference for Monday
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Former Georgia congressman Bob Barr has scheduled a Monday press conference in Washington “to discuss his future plans and the 2008 election.”
Obviously, a Libertarian run for the presidency is a natural topic.
You’ve got to think he’s going to do it. Just yesterday, Barr sent out a plea via the e-mail list of the Conservative Voice, asking for financial support. Not something you do if you’re going to throw in the towel a few days later.
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The real reason why Clinton won’t concede
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Just got an e-mail from former state lawmaker Tom Bordeaux down in Savannah, who offered this insight into the Democratic presidential race:
“I sympathize with Hillary Clinton’s reluctance to quit the race. After all, did you see what they did to the last filly who came in second?”
He says his observation is original, and possibly even copyrighted.
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Isakson says he won’t run for governor, will seek re-election to U.S. Senate
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson held a meeting with this staff this morning and told them he’s decided to seek another term in the U.S. Senate rather than run for governor in 2010.
The meeting was confirmed by Joan Kirchner, Isakson’s deputy chief of staff.
“Johnny loves serving in the U.S. Senate, and he thinks this presidential election — no matter who wins — will be one of the most important in the country’s history,” Kirchner said. “And in the next administration, the U.S. Senate will be where all the action is.”
State Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine, also a Republican, has already announced his candidacy for governor in 2010. But Isakson’s decision is sure to set more Republicans — not to mention Democrats — thinking about an attempt to succeed Gov. Sonny Perdue.
With the two most recent sessions of the General Assembly devolving into fights among the House speaker, lieutenant governor and governor, the Georgia business community had been pressuring Isakson to return home for the governor’s race.
But some close to the senator, whose residence is in east Cobb County, said the very nature of the infighting was a discouragement to Isakson.
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Newton GOP wide-eyed over school board candidate with child sex issues
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Republicans who take I-20 east home are fuming over revelations that a GOP candidate for the school board in Newton County has a 1988 conviction for sodomy to a child under 14, and was arrested in 1999 on a charge of public indeceny.
The latter charge against Horace Don Gresham was dead-docketed, according to the Covington News.
Here’s the newspaper’s take on the situation:
According to Steve Bray, chairman of the Newton County Republican Party, the organization does not remove candidates from the ballot once they’ve qualified.
“At this point, Mr. Gresham is a candidate having gone through the qualifying process and paid his fees,” Bray said. “Each candidate is responsible for their knowledge of and compliance with the Georgia State Election Code. The Newton County Republican Party’s role in the qualifying process is to certify the candidate’s signatures on the documents and collect the qualifying fees.”
Gresham signed the Declaration of Candidacy and Affidavit, which states candidates must have had their civil rights fully restored for at least 10 years upon the completion of their felony sentence. According to the deposition, Gresham was sentenced to one year in prison and 11 years of probation in 1988, making him ineligible to run for public office until 2010.
State Sen. John Douglas (R-Social Circle) is demanding that Gresham immediately withdraw his name from consideration.
“The thought of having a person who is a convicted pedophile and who engaged in an act of indecent exposure represent any part of Georgia on a local school board boggles the mind and defies logic,” he said in a press release posted on PeachPundit.com.
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