Posted on 04/10/2017 4:40:22 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
I noticed the opposite of that
They had expensive stuff but looked very nouveau
But I was at the two fancy malls and a hotel
Not at PTA or the Country Club
Federal employees also make cash now
My hipster daughter said there is a name for NeNe like rich blacks...”bouge”
As in Boo Gee
Atlanta is their capital no question but they aren’t who keeps it paid
Nashville rich blacks are a few docs and mds some of whom I know and athletes some of whom I also know and my sons play ba with their kids
And drug dealers but not like I saw in Buckhead Saturday night
Guys with a table of caterpillar butt women in Herve Legere dresses throwing down cash for lobster and Cristal
Crazy and they weren’t athletes
I did see some of what you described
The Chops Lobster house by the St Regis
A great hotel but 475 a night per room
Too rich for me except special occasion
I like Atlanta more than I should admit prolly
I will say one last thing very different from my youth
The Strip joints are all open prostitution now from what I saw last year with friends
Crazy
Wide open
Wasn’t like that in the 80s
And no same lady for 20 plus years now but I still got eyes
Really? I heard his message was "Piss off Trump". Some message.
Let's see...last I looked, I think Price won 65% of the vote. So we'll see if the Demon Rats win.
Price had the tremendous advantage of being a long-time incumbent. It’s a totally different ballgame when the incumbent isn’t running, and if the demographics have been changing then surprises can happen.
In a special election like this, turnout is low. A good ground game by Ossoff, or Handel or Gray could win it with no runoff.
When I see yard signs in private yards, I know there is a ground game. Yard signs in public right-of-way mean nothing.
Ossoff has a lot of yard signs in yards. Those people have already voted. The Dem ground game is currently well over 50% of the total vote. The Dem ground game now has the ability to go out and get more each day of early voting.
The Republican County and State Organizations seem to be asleep. But it isn’t just the estalblishment. There are 3, maybe 5 Trump candidates in the race. Why could they not unite around one of them?
Handel has the background where she could mount a ground game without the party. But she too seems to assume she will automatically go into the runoff and then everyone will automatically coalesce around her then. Well, if there is a runoff that is probably what happens.
Hillary’s big mistake was thinking she had it in the bag.
Are we going to make the same mistake?
Yes.
The GOP does nothing.
Generally, it just stands there with its thumb in its ass, and on the off chance that it wins, it runs and hides in the corner.
I kinda thought that it did pretty good with the recent supremes pick but what do I know.
Lie.
Right on the mark about surprises. Exposes the fact that the Trump machine didn’t measure the unintended consequences of selecting Price for the Cabinet. Had they done so, it might have been better to keep Price in the Congress to drive the Obamacare repeal. As it is, Price does not appear to have returned any value as a Cabinet member with primary responsibility for this key issue. They’ve been Ryan-rolled so far, IMO. Watching for further developments, ready to be pleasantly surprised...
Georgia also was listed as a toss-up state too. How’d that work out Dems?
I agree with your comments; its one thing to pick someone like Sessions, whose replacement will be another conservative Republican in Alabama, as opposed to Price, whose north Atlanta suburban district Trump carried by one point. Same with Zinke in Montana; it opened up his House seat to a possible loss and makes it a lot less likely that the strongest challenger to Tester in 2018 will run for the Senate in Montana. Not a lot of strategic thinking here that I can see.
Yes - Yes - Yes!!! Well said! Excellent summary for what both of us are observing. Exactly the sort of stuff Trump used to preach to his Apprentices on the TV show.
These are primaries aren’t they?
Don’t you know Georgia’s a PURPLE state.....it’s in play, baby! I mean Trump only won by 5.1%!!!!
Yeah, they did.
I give the Senate full credit for that.
That was a very good job.
But the House GOP is totally f***in’ useless.
We can deny a Democrat will win the GA seat, but it is certain that he has a real chance with so much GOP ineptitude.
Do you think this is fake media concern trolling? The LA times was doing it with a Congressional race in Kansas, too.
18 candidates in wrestlemania is more like it.
No party labels on ballot. No party label on most signs, literature and TV ads. If one of the 18 gets 50% Plus 1 vote he wins.
If nobody wins, then the top two go for a runoff. Currently the top 2 are Ossoff, Democrat with 45% in polls and Karen Handel, Republican with 20-25%.
Karen Handel is former Secretary of State and did a better job running that office than the current RINO swamp dweller.
Handel ran for governor and then Senator and lost both times. But in those races she easily carried the 6th District. She is a close friend of Tom Price and Tom Price’s wife.
Handel made her name as head of a charity refusing to give her groups money for abortion. She was “fired”, of course, from that charity. So she has a martyr image and pro-life image.
Handel’s votes in Congress will be exactly like those of Tom Price, which is to say not as close to the Freedom Caucus as Loudermilk and Hice in the adjacent suburban districts. (I’m in the John Lewis Atlanta District.)
Last day of voting is Tuesday, April 18.
Republican county convention is Saturday, Apr 22.
The County GOP incumbents seem to want the title, but not the work. They seem to block anyone else from doing anything for fear that someone else will emerge and take their title.
But the Freedom Caucus types and the Trump types are just as disorganized.
Georgia Republican Assembly is trying to unify the Freedom Caucus and Trump types around candidates to take over the County and State Organizations. We’ll let you know how Sat Apr 22 goes.
There are something like 18 candidates in this nonpartisan special election. It’s crazy. And the national Dems are pouring huge amounts of money into the race. They really, really need a win, from a momentum standpoint.
We should talk if you want some details on what all is going on here. While I’ve got my candidate, there are honestly 4-5 who I’d be OK with, and one of those are likely to be in the almost certain runoff with Ossoff.
I’m sorry.
(On that last)
;-P
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