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August 30, 2004
Listen to This Voice
So, there is this organization called Family Concerns here in Georgia. It is headed by a total nutcase named Nancy Schaefer, who is running for State Senate from District 50, which includes a number of counties that border the Carolinas, including Towns. Zell Miller is from Towns county, but more on that in a minute.
Here are a few things that Family Concerns advocates:
- Title IX must be rescinded because it has adversely affected teenage pregnancy, among other things.
- The lottery is equally as bad as prostitution. Since Georgia has a lottery, we'll probably legalize prostitution soon.
- Smart Growth is a United Nations "plot".
- The Lottery (which the good Zell championed) is an "Insidious Evil"
- "Real Women" do not have jobs...for decades American woman has been brainwashed. She has been asked to kill her babies, endorse lesbianism, and divorce her husband (she actually wrote this in the AJC causing Jim Wooten to kick the communications director of the GA GOP for not coming up with such wonderful prose first for that week's Thinking Right).
So you get the idea. Now, back to Zell. Zell, and a few of his backers like to argue that it's not that he left the party, it's that the party left him. Well, I don't want any part of a party that has members who agree with Nancy Schaefer and Family Concerns. And I don't think anybody who is still a Democrat wants to go back to the days when the Democratic coalition included such swine.
You can click the above link to see for yourself, but here is the moneyquote:
I want you to know that my Lord and Saviour has forgiven me...and I hope you and Family Concerns can forgive me for my neglect and lack of understanding on the issues that were important to you and should have been to me
Without argument, the single most important thing Zell Miller ever did was implement a state lottery and HOPE scholarship in Georgia. Nancy Schaefer and Family Concerns were among the top opponents of that lottery and scholarship. And now Zell asks for their forgiveness and in the process admits that his keynote accomplishment was a mistake.
Zell Miller, you can call yourself whatever you want. But you are not a Democrat in my book, and the only reason you're still calling yourself one is so you can sell more copies of your book. I want to remember Zell for what he was, and not for the sad caricature of a former great man that he's become. He's about to nominate the worst President of the last 50 years for re-election, 12 years after he nominated one of the greatest.
The Democratic Party of Georgia has set up a website to remember Zell for what he was. It's called Listen To This Voice and features his great 1992 convention speech. Go watch the video and then donate to the Democratic Party of Georgia so we can make sure that nuts like Nancy Schaefer stay out of our state legislature, and so we can keep the Republicans from stealing the House like they stole our state Senate and engaging in Texas style mid-decade redistricting. If you want, you can add $.26 to your contribution so they'll know it came from this website. I won't get a cut of the money, but I do work for the Democratic Party of Georgia, and I am a member of the state committee. I'm working with a dozen or so great people and hundreds of wonderful candidates to take back our state legislature and keep Zell and his ilk out -- but it takes money to communicate our winning message. I've never asked for money on this blog before and I won't again for a long time. This is very important. Thank you for your time.
Posted by Chris at August 30, 2004 03:19 AM
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