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Bulldog politics: Vince Dooley, Herschel Walker back separate QBs for White House

From the Wayback Machine: Herschel Walker leaves Vince Dooley's office for the last time in his final year with the Georgia Bulldogs, 1983. W.A. Bridges Jr. / AJC file photo
From the Wayback Machine: Herschel Walker leaves Vince Dooley's office for the last time in his final year with the Georgia Bulldogs, 1983. W.A. Bridges Jr. / AJC file photo
By Jim Galloway
Sept 1, 2015

The season hasn't yet begun, and already Bulldog Nation has been split asunder. And not by any argument over quarterbacks.

On second thought, that’s not quite true.

This week, Heisman great Herschel Walker declared that he likes the idea of President Donald Trump. From USA Today:

Walker said he would like to see a plan that enables immigrants to earn citizenship, but he still likes Trump as a presidential candidate in part from what Walker learned about Trump during the 1984 and '85 seasons with the New Jersey Generals.

But now word comes to us that Walker’s old coach and mentor, Vince Dooley (and wife Barbara) will headline GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush’s Sept. 19 tailgate party in Athens, coinciding with an all-important Georgia-South Carolina game. From the invitation:

About the Author

Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.

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