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Monday, July 7, 2008
Obama tackles Buckhead
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama is in Buckhead, an hour behind schedule, but preparing for a high-dollar fund raiser at banquet hall 103 West.
Obama’s plane, his second of the day, landed at Atlantic at Hartsfield, a private terminal, shortly before 6:30 p.m. His first plane, you might have heard, had mechanical issues en route to Charlotte and had to land in St. Louis. The candidate and his entourage switched planes and pushed on to Atlanta.
Once on the ground, the candidate, in a dark suit and pale blue tie, climbed down the rolling staircase and got into a waiting SUV. His motorcade of six cars and a bus zoomed up I-85 to the Downtown Connector and on to Buckhead. No blue lights on the interstates, but a few blocked intersections on surface streets.
The motorcade came up Moores Mill Road to West Paces Ferry, which luckily allowed us to miss the construction nightmare just two blocks away.
103 West is on West Paces Ferry, and the bus carrying the national press pool got a glimpse of some of Atlanta’s finest homes, including the Georgia governor’s mansion.
More to come.
— Aaron Gould Sheinin
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Oxendine has $460,000 in the bank
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine will report Tuesday that he’s got almost a half-million-dollar head start on his gubernatorial rivals.
Oxendine will report having raised $472,000 over the past few months for his 2010 race for governor. He has $460,000 in the bank. No other 2010 gubernatorial candidate has begun raising money.
While that sounds like a nice chunk of change, then-state Sen. Sonny Perdue raised about twice as much in a little over a month when he got into his first governor’s race in 2001.
However, Perdue was the candidate of the Republican establishment that year. This time around, many big-money GOP donors may be waiting to see who gets into the governor’s race before deciding which horse to bet on.
- James Salzer
