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Ga. Candidate Criticized for Rat Ad (It's like a 1970s Godzilla movie, It's funny)
AP ^ | 5/25/2002 | AP

Posted on 05/25/2002 11:49:28 AM PDT by TLBSHOW

Ga. Candidate Criticized for Rat Ad

A T L A N T A, May 25 —

Republican gubernatorial candidate Sonny Perdue is facing sharp criticism and not just from Democrats for a new campaign video that depicts Gov. Roy Barnes as a giant rat.

In 10-minute video, Barnes is portrayed as a huge rodent wearing a "King Roy" necklace. He is shown stuffing himself with wine and fruit at the governor's mansion and lovingly hugging the state Capitol as a narrator calls him "shifty" and "crafty."

Perdue plans to send 2,000 copies to supporters, and the short movie was made available free on his Web site Wednesday.

Perdue's challengers in the Republican primary called the video "disgusting" and "malicious" and called on Perdue to stop distributing it.

"This cartoon approach and personal attack on Roy Barnes defines the credibility of Sonny Perdue, not Roy Barnes," fellow GOP candidate Bill Byrne said in a statement. He said Perdue should apologize.

Barnes campaign manager Tim Phillips called it "shameful."

A top aide to Perdue, meanwhile, said he wasn't worried the video would come off as too mean-spirited.

"It's like a 1970s Godzilla movie. It's funny. We don't think people are going to overthink it too much," said the aide, Dan McLagan.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: demonrats; demorat; rat
Go get the rats. This is funny stuff. The rats can dish it out but when we slam it back in their rat faces they all cry and run for their rat hole. LOL
1 posted on 05/25/2002 11:49:28 AM PDT by TLBSHOW
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To: TLBSHOW
This is too funny! I'd love to have a copy of this movie! But I wonder, what does he REALLY think of King Roy?
2 posted on 05/25/2002 11:53:59 AM PDT by gracex7
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To: gracex7
the short movie was made available free on his Web site Wednesday.

From the story. This is cool stuff. Rats!@@#$%^&

3 posted on 05/25/2002 11:58:05 AM PDT by TLBSHOW
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To: TLBSHOW;cagey;whyisatexasgirlinpa
Georgia politics are funny. I think we are the only Southern state that has never had a Republican Governor.
4 posted on 05/25/2002 12:05:14 PM PDT by SeeRushToldU_So
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To: TLBSHOW
Got a link?
5 posted on 05/25/2002 12:06:54 PM PDT by patton
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To: patton
http://www.votesonny.com
6 posted on 05/25/2002 12:09:56 PM PDT by Honcho Bongs
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To: patton
Someone beat me to it. No wonder I was using a different combo!
7 posted on 05/25/2002 12:13:23 PM PDT by TLBSHOW
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To: TLBSHOW
Just downloaded it. 100MB Quicktime. Thank goodness for DSL.

The "King Roy" bit is hilarious. King Roy climbing over Stone Mountain, and climbing up buildings in Atlanta. Anyone who lives in metro Atlanta will agree.

The other Republicans that criticized the film are just sorry they didn't think of it.

8 posted on 05/25/2002 12:21:54 PM PDT by magellan
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To: SeeRushToldU_So
One, although a bit tainted.

Reconstruction

Within a few months of the surrender, white Georgians regained their political rights: President Andrew Johnson permitted them to elect delegates to a state constitutional convention. Johnson's plan of restoration, or Reconstruction, of the Union was to reestablish the state governments and then readmit the states to Congress. The delegates duly repealed the 1861 ordinance of secession and recognized the abolition of slavery. They failed, however, to give blacks the right to vote or to testify against whites in court. In general, the new constitution maintained white supremacy. Constitutions drafted in the other Confederate states were similar. The legislatures of Georgia and the other states also passed black codes, a series of laws severely restricting the liberties of the newly freed blacks.

Partly because of these acts by the Southern states, the radical wing of the Republican Party in Congress wrested control of Reconstruction from President Johnson and imposed the harsher regime called Radical Reconstruction. In March 1867 Congress put all the ex-Confederate states except Tennessee under military rule. Readmission to the Union was made conditional on their adoption of new constitutions acceptable to Congress. They were required to extend the vote and basic civil rights to all men, regardless of race. The Republican Party now gained control in Georgia, based on a coalition of blacks, businessmen, and white small farmers from the northern mountain counties. This coalition in 1868 elected a Republican governor, Rufus B. Bullock, and a legislature that ratified the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The amendment extended citizenship to anyone born in the United States and promised all people the equal protection of the laws. Georgia was readmitted to the Union in 1870.

Republican rule was soon undermined, however, by the violence of a secret terrorist organization, the Ku Klux Klan, which acted as a clandestine arm of the state Democratic Party. In 1868 alone, more than 300 Georgia blacks were murdered or assaulted by white terrorists. It was soon apparent that most white Republicans in Georgia were not strongly committed to equal rights. Several months into the 1868 legislative session, many Republicans joined with the Democrats in expelling black legislators although they had been fairly elected. The following year the legislature failed to ratify the Fifteenth Amendment, which prohibited race from being used as a requirement for voting.

Despite a feeble attempt by the U.S. Army to restore order, the Republican Party in Georgia was finished. When a new legislature took office in 1871, Governor Bullock fled the state to avoid being impeached. Despite charges of corruption against the Republicans, it is clear that Democrats were also involved in dirty dealings; and corruption did not end with the return of Democratic rule. The state was under one-party rule by the Democrats for almost the next 100 years.

9 posted on 05/25/2002 12:25:24 PM PDT by Cagey
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To: Cagey;whyisatexasgirlinpa
My Favorite Line: Republican rule was soon undermined, however, by the violence of a secret terrorist organization, the Ku Klux Klan, which acted as a clandestine arm of the state Democratic Party.

And now it is the mean nasty Republicans that are the racist! Go figure????

Thanks for the clarification Cagey.

I should have said no Republican Governor Since Reconstruction!

10 posted on 05/25/2002 12:37:59 PM PDT by SeeRushToldU_So
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To: SeeRushToldU_So
I got a kick out of that too. It's funny how Democrats try to convince the rest of the world that the KKK is part of the Republican party. As Gomer Pyle would say...Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!.
11 posted on 05/25/2002 12:46:46 PM PDT by Cagey
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To: Cagey
It was Democrap governors that put up the Confederate flags over the State Houses! That senile Ernest Hollings(Dem SC Senate) was Gov for SC, when he put the flag up, for crying out loud.
12 posted on 05/25/2002 12:53:19 PM PDT by SeeRushToldU_So
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To: Cagey;SeeRushtoldU_So
That's it! Cagey is now officially a Southerner!!!! Thanks Cagey - we always appreciate information that "outs" Dems..........

Thanks for the ping Rush.......

13 posted on 05/25/2002 2:10:22 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: Cagey
You left out a few things partner, not the least of which is that anyone who fought for, or sympathised with the Confederacy was disinfranchised. Therefore, about 98% of all white Georgians of that time were denied the right to vote. Also, it is my contention that anyone who has been a slave all his life is ill equiped intellectually to make an informed vote. Therefore, it was very easy for the Negros to be manipulated by intelligent people with evil intentions, which the carpetbaggers certainly were. Literacy tests on the fitness to vote in federal elections should be constitutionally mandated, and the rights of states to do the same in reference to state elections if any of the member states of the US deems it desirable. Frankly, I think Lincoln, and the Radical Repubs would have probably been Democrats if they had lived in the present. Or is it true that they were the real Republican party and the various Repubs whom many on FR call RINOs really not RINOs, but are actually the very imbodiment of the Repubs?
14 posted on 05/25/2002 3:49:44 PM PDT by GaConfed
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To: Honcho Bongs
Thanks for finding the link!
16 posted on 05/25/2002 8:19:20 PM PDT by TLBSHOW
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To: TLBSHOW
The video is great and it strikes a nerve at the Governors house. When the KGB (king governor barnes) was identified in Georgia it made him real mad. The Senator who came up with the KGB label also put up a website.

Ig it makes the KGB mad I say keep doing it!

www.votesonny.com

17 posted on 05/26/2002 5:09:24 AM PDT by Engine82
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To: Engine82
lol
18 posted on 05/26/2002 6:44:05 AM PDT by TLBSHOW
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To: TLBSHOW
I thought it was a riot. Ratzilla!! Sonny's got the money, it must have cost about $500K for this, and he's got the backing of a lot of the state party leaders. But he seems awfully vulnerable to me.

He's a Republican retread, having been a Democrat for most of his elected life and just recently switching parties. He was the architect of the gas "deregulation" scheme that sent rates through the roof. His base seems to be limited to the rural south Georgia area and he doesn't seemt to deliver his message with much conviction.

Linda Schrenko, the State School superintendent doesn't seem to be able to garner much financial support and has had a lot of negative publicity in the press.

The sleeper may be Bill Byrne, the chairman of the Cobb County commission. Under his leadership the county has lowered taxes - both the property and the sales tax, promoted and gotten a lot of new business and has a favorable financial rating matched by only 14 other counties nationwide. Plus he seems to have practical solutions to a lot of the problems facing Georgia like eliminating the need for the Northern Arc by expanding existing corridors which would take half as long and cost half as much. Byrne website/A>

19 posted on 05/26/2002 7:13:12 AM PDT by johncatl
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