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April 4, 2007
GA-10: Dems Rally Around Marlow
I hadn't checked up on this race lately because of all the other things going on in the world. As most of you know the GA-10 is where I have family, so it's of particular interest to me. I was hoping that the Democrats would find a great candidate for the area given the utter lack of representation my family gets now, due to the utter rubber stamp nature of the Republicans in Georgia and North Georgia Republicans are particularly vile in their radical extremism.
That being said Marlow is way too conservative for my tastes, but hey that's why I don't live in Georgia anymore. The race has gone completely crazy, six Republicans, six Democrats, and one Libertarian already in, while more are on the way. What I found really interesting given that kind of environment was the support this first time candidate like Marlow has gotten from the Democratic establishment.
Marlow obtained the backing of 13 Democratic county chairmen at a meeting held March 31 in the 10th District city of Clarksville, according to Marlow spokesman Emil Runge.Although this is the candidate's first foray into politics, his name is not unknown in local Democratic circles. His father, Buddy Marlow, served as mayor of Lincolnton. The campaign staff Marlow has assembled, including Jeff DiSantis, former executive director of the state Democratic Party, and Runge, former state Democratic Party communications director, likely will bolster his rookie political effort.
That's pretty impressive to say the least. I guess they've sort of gotten tired to losing, which is a good sign. You can't start winning until you realize that what you've been doing isn't working.
Anyway, it should be interesting. The wait of course is because the Republicans are trying to maintain control of their radical agenda in Atlanta and they can't afford to lose the extremists from the GA-10 area in the state government that want to take their extremism to Washington. So they are stalling the election to finish the state legislative session so that way when they are forced to resign their state posts to run for a federal one their agenda isn't lost. It's a tangled web in Georgia politics on the best days.
Marlow is an ex-tech guy, which moves him up massively on my scale. I was disappointed that his website didn't use ActBlue for fund raising. That tells me that he's got the knowledge of the technology, but not the politics of the technology yet, which can be remedied pretty easily I think. Other than a great website, which is what I've come to expect from NGP, I hate the fact that they leave the site to process your information and that they don't use secured links when collecting campaign information. It makes me nervous, but I could write a book on the things about the NGP system that bother me. They help Democrats set up quick websites, so I'll forgive them for most of their transgressions. Obama and Hillary use them, but I can't help but wonder if there isn't a better way. (I've thought of one, as you've already guessed.)
I checked out ActBlue's site and they don't have the special election set up for some reason, so I poked them on that subject because in a few months the Netroots are going to get interested in this race and we need our tools working.
Read more over at Wikipedia, Swing State Project, CQ Politics, 2008 Race Tracker (yes we know it's 2007), Marlow for Georgia and Georgia Secretary of State.
Posted by Jamison at April 4, 2007 1:08 PM
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