Jason Carter to challenge Deal for GA Governor
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/jason-carter-to-challenge-gov-deal-next-year/nbkQ8/"Democratic state Sen. Jason Carter will challenge Gov. Nathan Deal next year in a move that catapults the gubernatorial contest into the national spotlight and tests whether Georgia’s changing demographics can loosen the Republican Party’s 12-year grip on the state’s highest office."
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“We want a Georgia that’s at its best,” Carter said. “And Georgia at its best invests in education, it doesn’t cut billions out of the classrooms, it has an economy that works for the middle class and it always has an honest government.”
Georgia's changing demographics may may make next year's election very interesting with Carter taking on Deal and Michelle Nunn running to replace Saxby.
"The white proportion of voters shrunk 9 points to 66 percent from 2002 to 2010, and the dive was even more pronounced during presidential election years. About 44 percent of Georgia residents are now minorities — up 7 points in the past decade — and nonwhites could outnumber whites here by 2020."
edit to add: Jason Carter is the grandson of Jimmy Carter and Michelle Nunn is the daughter of former Sen. Sam Nunn.
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... but he'll be in position to run and win in an open election five years from now.
-Laelth
I don't trust those machines as far as I can throw them. I say so too, nearly every time I go to vote. I have every reason to believe that Purdue was not elected in 2002 but, rather, was "selected" by Diebold. "Rob Georgia," indeed.
That said, I fully agree that Georgia is changing, but I must add that Georgia has always been moderate. It's even in our state motto: "Wisdom, Justice, Moderation."
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Few people realize that the Georgia colony was designed by James Edward Oglethorpe to be a utopian society. Slavery was illegal in the original Georgia colony. We only changed our minds on that subject when our wealthy landowners looked at South Carolina and North Carolina and saw that they could make a lot more money with their land in rice plantations in our marshes with abundant slave labor (a perk enjoyed by the wealthy in those states but forbidden to Georgians). I should add that Georgia was quite resistant to joining the Confederacy. Alexander Stevens, a Georgian, became the Vice-President of the Confederacy only because he was the most outspoken and powerful opponent of secession, and the secessionists recruited him just to give a voice in the government to those who opposed secession.
Georgia is different from its neighbors in a host of ways, and those of us who grew up in Georgia's proud liberal tradition remain proud of the 39th President of the United States, and I look forward to his grandson continuing this proud tradition.
We are forward-thinking and politically moderate. Just look at Atlanta!
-Laelth
I am reminded of a ubiquitous joke in the UK.
American beer is like making love in a canoe. It's f***ing close to water.
-Laelth
There are a number of American micro-brews I like. In fact, some of the major brands have added beers with some color and flavor over the past several years.
That said, regarding the biggest and best-selling American beers, I think the joke from the UK is spot-on.
-Laelth
