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Tag: governor

  • The Walkabout

    Situation… you are a candidate running for Governor of Georgia, a state with massive problems, your name recognition is low, and you live in a small rural section of the state, and the most votes you’ve ever gotten is 8400 and change. I get it, you desperately need to raise your name recognition, so instead…

  • Roy goes for it

    Roy Eugene Barnes set the right tone for his announcement that he’ll try to regain the governor’s job from which he was booted in 2002 by Georgia voters:  conciliatory, somewhat apologetic, at least giving the appearance that he sort of understands why he and his sidekick Bobby Kahn pissed off so many people back then.