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DEL.ICIO.USOxendine expects to post big money number
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
When Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine files his mid-year campaign report next week, the Republican says he’ll be disclosing that he’s raised more than $400,000 since announcing plans in mid-April to run for governor in 2010.
That’s he’s having success collecting campaign checks to run for governor should come as no surprise. Oxendine has set records raising money for re-election, collecting a big chunk of his take from the folks he regulates.
Oxendine said he’s only had one fund-raiser so far. “If we can raise $400,000 without trying very hard, we can raise a lot more when we start trying,” he said.
For a point of reference, Oxendine raised a little more than $200,000 in a similar amount of time in 2004 when he announced his intentions to run for lieutenant governor in 2006. Oxendine wound up deciding against making that run, but not before collecting about $500,000 in less than a year. He returned most of the money to donors.
—James Salzer
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By silent jay
July 3, 2008 1:15 PM | Link to this
If you have a State Farm sticker on the back of your car, keep it. It’ll be the new Georgia flag.
By GodHatesTrash
July 4, 2008 2:24 AM | Link to this
Oxendine is a worthless stupid POS - another Sonny Perdoofus.
By Geoff Waterhouse
July 13, 2008 10:52 PM | Link to this
Yes, Oxendine will raise plenty of money, from those in the business who pay him protection. Talk about political Mafia, Oxendine takes the cake. His campaign contributors reads like a “Who’s Who” from the insurance and finance business. Maybe if I had contributed he wouldn’t have thrown my son in jail, wouldn’t have destroyed our business and wouldn’t have told a pack of lies about us to any old media hack, including the AJC, that would listen, hang on his every word anf then publish. Remember “never let the truth get in the way of a godd story.” Oxendine is a liar and so should do well if he makes it to the top of the poltical (dung0 heap in Georgia. He is not really fit to be elected town rat catcher never mind state governor. Ah Yes, “Liberty and Justice for SOME,” in the land of throw ‘em in jail and lie about them first, check the facts later
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