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DEL.ICIO.USKnight: ‘We’ve got a shot’
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Political newcomer Rand Knight is juggling phone lines this evening as he and four other candidates await the 7 p.m. closing of polls in their bid for the Democratic U.S. Senate race.
News, like turnout, has been light. But the 36-year-old Atlanta businessman is feeling positive.
“We’re feeling good,” he said. “We did this whole thing on less than a quarter million bucks. We did no statewide advertising, no direct mailing, we had the biggest endorsements in Democratic politics, and we got a shot.”
The endorsements from major labor unions, including the state teacher’s association, are, indeed, significant. Whether they’re enough to get Knight into the expected runoff … well, we’ll start finding out in about 40 minutes.
—Aaron Gould Sheinin
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Comments
By New South Lady
July 15, 2008 7:14 PM | Link to this
Rand had more than a shot, I think he has gone from a shot in the dark to the shot heard round the state. Yeah. Rand.
New South Lady
By Georgia Blue
July 16, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this
Twenty-five thousand people voted for a man who never ran for office before, and didn’t wh-re himself for the money to run a TV smear campaign. Working people, unions, and teachers organizations who had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Knight endorsed him fully, based on his vision, intelligence, integrity, and passion for the people of this state.
Unfortunately, money still talks in Georgia, and money still rules. How’s that working for Y’ALL?
More of the same is what you’ll get now, it seems. Want fries with that?
By Fabu da Fabulous
July 16, 2008 11:26 PM | Link to this
Barack is a closet intellectual, he’s to smart for this country, they will tear him down with their lies, ‘He’s a closet Muslim.” Not true, if he is in fact a Muslim which he is not who cares, you where born into your ignorance just like radical Muslims where born into their own brand of hate, quit demonizing entire groups based upon the acts of those who look into the mirror and see you.