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To: SittinYonder; Bogey78O; John D
Guys, Barnes couldn't get elected pooper scooper at the local pound.

When he was gov., he alienated every ordinarily Dem group you can think of -- teachers, government workers, unions, law enforcement, you name it.

He also did too much revenge payback while in office to get widespread support. Our suburban Cobb County district voted against him in the first governor's race (it's a largely Repub area, Isakson's old seat) and in revenge he broke up this area and put each precinct with a different west side Atlanta/Fulton County inner city neighborhood.

Of course, that didn't exactly work out the way he planned, because everybody was so mad we organized and dumped Billy McKinney (yes, Cynthia's dad) out of office.

18 posted on 05/25/2007 2:08:29 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: AnAmericanMother
he alienated every ordinarily Dem group you can think of -- teachers, government workers, unions, law enforcement, you name it.

Barnes pandered to the black voters at the expense of all the others. For some reason, he was willing to alienate anyone and every one, but not the blacks. That was the one group he didn't sell out.

19 posted on 05/25/2007 2:11:12 PM PDT by SittinYonder (Ic þæt gehate, þæt ic heonon nelle fleon fotes trym, ac wille furðor gan)
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To: AnAmericanMother

>>Of course, that didn’t exactly work out the way he planned, because everybody was so mad we organized and dumped Billy McKinney (yes, Cynthia’s dad) out of office.

So I take it you’re JOOOOOOOOish?

;-P


86 posted on 05/27/2007 11:59:07 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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