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July 25, 2004
Jim Wooten
As soon as the Christian Coalition gives up their non-profit status (seeing as their director is a delegate to the RNC), I will take your complaints here seriously.
What does it say that Jim Wooten thinks it is worse for a political party to exercise free speech and purchase ads on a candidate's behalf than it is for someone running for the Supreme Court to lie about having been nominated to the federal bench? And another thing, to say that Republican party help to Brantley was overstated is just not true. Perdue stumped for him and his party organization took leaves of absence to run his campaign.
The sad thing (for Perdue and his handpicked campaign manager for Brantley -- Republican Party Executive Director Paul Bennecke) is that 1 lowly paid 19 year old summer intern being directed by a lone research analyst doing research for about two weeks sunk that entire ship -- they found the tax liens, they found the embarassing ABA ratings from the past, old direct mail, old newspaper ads, and the find of the year -- the lie about being nominated. Somehow, I think Georgia voters are thankful that the DPG kicked in some funds so they didn't accidentally vote in some stooge to the Supreme Court.
Coming soon I will scan in some mail that Brantley sent out to show you just how viscious Governor Perdue and his people think campaigns should get in this state. And I doubt Wooten will complain about that.
Posted by Chris at July 25, 2004 01:00 PM
Comments
Wooten's full of Christmas cheer this week. He made a misleading claim about Clinton's book signing turnout in the column before that:
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/wooten/2004/072304.html
He forgot to mention tickets were limited at Clinton's signing but not at Hannity's.
Posted by: Rusty at July 25, 2004 03:36 PM
Wooten is a loser
Posted by: mae at July 26, 2004 12:12 AM
Wooten? What a hack. A predictable, talentless, tendentious, dishonest, meanspirited hack. Still, somehow he manages to show more flashes of thought most days than Shaunti Feldman — and the fact that they both write for the JC tells you what you need to know about the quality of that paper.
Posted by: Greg Greene at July 26, 2004 12:34 PM
I'd love to see the AJC schlep off the small-town reporting and go big. It's time Cox got local and let the AJC become the Post or Times for Atlanta. This tug of war between local writers who are narrow (Wooten, Shaunti) and those who obviously have a much larger grasp of the bigger issued at hand (Tucker, Bookman), is getting old quick. Time to moveon.
Posted by: Tim Cairl at July 26, 2004 03:19 PM
OK, let's just get the quote here, when talking about Republican operatives working on his campaign, Mr Brantley said (in the AJC):
Brantley, 64, does not disavow a strong reliance on his campaign staff. "These guys are running it," he said. "I feel like a puppet — not the monkey in the monkey grinder — but when they say, 'Jump,' I say how high on the way up. I trust them."
complete link here:
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/0704/03supreme.html
What more do we need to hear? Let's say we all email the link to Wooten.
Posted by: Catherine Smith at July 26, 2004 03:56 PM
This November, Georgia gives its electoral votes to George W. Bush and a new Republican US Senator
will be elected in Georgia. That's what's important.
Chris, tell us just once about how Cynthia McKinney--as documented elsewhere--is bought and paid for by Arabs. Just once! Go ahead. The
confession will be refreshing, Chris.
Posted by: phillydog at July 26, 2004 07:06 PM
What are you talking about? I'm no Cynthia McKinney fan. If you live in a world where acknowledging that someone you don't like is a talented speaker means that you're somehow covering up for their Arab backing then maybe you shouldn't read this blog.
Posted by: Chris at July 27, 2004 09:23 PM
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