{"id":337,"date":"2012-11-08T10:21:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T15:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/challengers-made-statehouse-incumbents-work-in-south-georgia.html"},"modified":"2012-11-08T10:21:47","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T15:21:47","slug":"challengers-made-statehouse-incumbents-work-in-south-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/challengers-made-statehouse-incumbents-work-in-south-georgia.html","title":{"rendered":"Challengers made statehouse incumbents work in south Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\n<\/a>\nHardly-funded insurgents led by Haley Shank put a scare into turncoat south Georgia statehouse\nincumbents.\nWhat would happen with well-funded candidates?\n<\/p>\n

\nAs we’ve already seen,\n\nin new district 177 Dexter Sharper (D)<\/a>\nwon 2 to 1 over opponent J. Glenn Gregory (R).\n(All election data in this post is from\nGA Secretary of State.<\/a>)\n<\/p>\n

\nConversely, Jason Shaw (R-176) ran unopposed, perhaps because\nhe is the least offensive of the incumbents (he voted\n against HB 1162<\/a>\nthat put\n\nthe Atlanta-power-grab “charter school” amendment<\/a> on the ballot,\nalthough\n\nhe did vote for HB 797<\/a>\nthat will funnel more of your local tax dollars to charter schools\nimposed by Atlanta even if your school board doesn’t want them).\n<\/p>\n

\nOther south Georgia statehouse incumbents, all Republicans, had\nchallengers, all Democrats.\nAll the challengers opposed Amendment 1.\nHaley Shank did best, in District 173 against Darlene K. Taylor,\n8,324 to 12,048 (40.86% to 59.14%).\n<\/p>\n

\nNext was\n\n\n\n<\/a>\nTeresa Lawrence against Ellis Black (Turncoat-174),\nwith 5,050 to 11,500 (30.51% to 69.49%).\n<\/p>\n

\n\n<\/a>\nFinally among statehouse insurgents,\nJ.C. Cunningham opposed Amy Carter (Turncoat-175),\ngetting 6,573 to 15,732 (29.47% to 70.53%).\n<\/p>\n

\n\n<\/a>\nAnd for State Senate, Bikram Mohanty opposed\nTim Golden (Turncoat-8), getting 21,998 to 36,287 (37.74% to 62.26%).\nGolden apparently felt the heat, since he retaliated against criticism of his voting record\nwith a personal attack on his opponent.\n<\/p>\n

\nIn that attack he made the mistake of misusing LAKE materials,\nresulting in\n\nlegal action by LAKE (covered as news by WCTV)<\/a> and\n\na LAKE TV ad in the same WALB market<\/a>\nas Golden’s attack ad.\nMaybe Golden should be more careful how he treats constituents.\n<\/p>\n

\nAll of Black, Carter, and Golden voted for both HB 1162 and HB 797,\nand all three ran two years ago as Democrats and a few weeks later\nswitched to be Republicans,\n\nas WALB reminded us:<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nThis is the first time Tim Golden has run as a Republican. He\nswitched parties after he was re-elected two years ago. Mohanty is\nthe Democratic nominee.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nThat’s how they earned the party label Turncoat: from DINO to RINO.\nThe turncoats have just seen they can’t run without opposition.\n<\/p>\n

\nVoters who voted for the incumbents:\nremember the only one of\n\nfour political forums in Lowndes County<\/a>\nthe incumbents showed up for\nwas the one run by the Chamber of Commerce,\nin which no questions were asked of the candidates\n(and Black didn’t even bother to show up to that one).\nYou may ask yourself: who do the incumbent turncoats represent?\nApparently not you, the voters.\n<\/p>\n

\nSo far as I know, only Mohanty among the challengers had significant funding.\nImagine what a well-funded insurgent could do!\n<\/p>\n

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