Blog for Democracy

  • To the BfD bloggers: Leave Ken Hodges Alone

    Channeling the Ken Hodges campaign staff and his supporters: And how dare anyone out there make fun of Ken Hodges, after all he’s been through. The fax machines at Phoebe Putnam screwed him, he tried and failed the Walker case, Andy Young didn’t really endorse him, Sam Nunn didn’t really endorse him, and Sheriff Modena […]

  • Friday Open Thread: Friends Edition

    I’m sure drinking was involved in the conception of this poster.  Clearly, the drunks needed a sober friend. It was just a matter of time before they started studying us and our “friends”. I just learned this and it makes me so sad.  Because, among the 10 million, he really didn’t have any. Forget friends.  […]

  • Teilhet ad features Kenneth Walker’s mother, video of shooting

    So you don’t have to visit some mainstream media site.

  • Jane Kidd: “Let’s Have a Clean Fight”

    Atlanta GA – Democratic Party of Georgia Chair Jane Kidd released the following statement: “While the other Party’s Gubernatorial nominees are leveling increasingly hostile and personal attacks against one another, it is imperative that Democrats work together to unite our party and win back the Governor’s Mansion for the good of our state. “Democrats are […]

  • Fox 5 Takes Issue with Teilhet

    I got a press release from the Hodges folks claiming that Fox 5 wants Teilhet to take down his ad. Apparently one cannot use footage from a news broadcast in a political ad. I don’t know anything much about this so I’m putting the release below the fold.

  • Things you don’t want to see in the paper

    If you’re a candidate, or if you work for one, here’s what you don’t want to see over your morning coffee and bagel, especially if it’s in one of the biggest newspapers in the state: … in the race to see who will become the state’s next attorney general, one candidate is advertising that Bibb […]

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