Posted on 09/16/2010 7:05:45 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE
Nathan Deal is a former GA Congressman. He won a close-fought GOP primary just weeks ago, but now is disclosing (reluctantly!) three financial problems at the same time he is trying to start his governor campaign.
The combination of bad timing, bad finances, and bad data on the candidate's financial disclosure sheets may cost the Republicans the Georgia governor race. (He faces Roy Barnes - an NEA and union and minority favorite - who lost the governor race two elections before. Name recognition, if nothing else, is positive for Barnes, negative for "Deal" with this information.)
His daughter's business failed, and Nathan Deal is co-signer on the loans. He now faces those new bills - estimated (on one radio report) at several million.
Sarah Palin endorsed a relative unknown during the primary, and that endorsement brought her up as leader from a near-dead heat between 4 candidates.
Regrettably, Nathan Deal's county voted for him very strongly, and that got him second place, and ensured a run-off.
Nathan won the run-off (very tight race = less 1100 votes) - and so we now face this problem to get Deal past these financial problems to keep a GOP governor.
I think more important than this business bankruptcy inside his close family, and that alone would increase sympathetic from a cash-strapped voter who also wants to help close family get ahead, Deal also has TWO major loans outstanding.
That he failed to write up in his financial disclosure.
Worse, he had previously known significant money problems/payback problems with nasty implications that caused him to resign as Congressman in the first place.
Again.
Just damn...
Real or smear?
So his daughter goes broke and it is his mismanagement. Well damn, 75% of the millionaires in this country have been broke, and several more than once. Ask donald the dump!!
Has Tokyo Rove weighed in?
Gain a little, lose a lot. One step forward, two steps back. sigh
I thought Karen was the estab pic.....
With ethical lapses like that, Deal is better suited for being the Democrat candidate. Get rid of Deal and bring on Eric Johnson.
Saras pick was wrong, Nathan was by far the better candidate. He still is but unfortunately this is going to hurt him badly. His only recourse is to make the case that he is suffering in the same economy as everyone else and hope the people understand. He also still has the fact that a lot of voters remember how Roy Barnes screwed them and will never forgive him. All we can do now is keep our fingers crossed and hope for the best. It has definitely turned an easy victory into a tossup.
Not another Dan Maes. He should step aside. It is crazy to give the governor’s office to a rat in Georgia.
...pay to play...
There’s no story as you posted it on the WSB website.
What they have on the subject is here:
http://wsbradio.com/localnews/2010/09/business-venture-costing-natha.html
If you’re going to post news articles and you cite a source for it. you need to include a link to that same article.
Bankruptcy? Real. But a family deal. People could live with it, maybe even sympathize with a father trying to help a daughter out.
The first loan? probably OK - IF it had been on the disclosure documents. Forgotten? I’d NEVER “forget” a 250,000.00 loan if “I” were filling uot a financial disclosure document!
The second loan? - BAD news. And he did it himself. OK, so maybe one loan can get skipped. But TWO? And the second loan is for 2.5 million. I can’t buy “forgetting” that one.
The original insurance business/payback/insurance tie-off’s that canme up? Might be OK. Might be legit business.
But anything that causes an incumbent congressman to resign office ain’t pretty. And THAT - with the above three pieces of bad financial news - smells bad. Might not be bad, but it smells bad.
I summarized WSB RADIO news - and what is being discussed on RADIO as I heard it today.
There may be no “source” on any web site - and I signed my own name because I wrote it. I did not claim WSB radio, WGST Radio, nor any other station around Atlanta wrote this story.
Sarah’s pick was the right one.....Nathan Deal is a terrible candidate to run against Barnes who is a very skilled politician. Barnes would have had a much harder time going negative on a fresh faced female candidate. This is the year of the “momma grizzlies” and Handle would have fit right in with the trend. Deal comes across as an old, crotchitty candidate that the affable Barnes will destroy....especially with this news coming out. I hate Barnes but he’s good. Karen Handle would have beat him...I don’t think Deal will.
http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2010/09/15/seth-persilys-private-war-on-nathan-deals-reputation/
Once again it appears Sarah was right and the “good old boys” were wrong.
As I see it mostly smear. The guy tried to help his kids. Their business venture failed and daddy was left holding the bag. As inperfect as Deal might be, he is still a far better choice for GA than dimocrat Rob Roy Barns who once already was thrown out of the governors office by Georgia voters. A good comparison would be who had you have George Bush or Al Gore.
So Sarah's pick in Georgia was right because Handel was more electable? Since when did we care about the more electable candidate? Handel was wobbly on pro-life issues and was paling around with the Log Cabin homos (instant no-go in my book).
Deal is the more Conservative.
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