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When Republicans are advised to choose the black rather than the white in the 8th Congressional District runoff, a perfectly legitimate question arises: Isn't a preference that takes account of race affirmative action politics? That's a question conservatives debate as a result of Dylan Glenn's endorsements from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp. Both think Glenn's success would draw other blacks into the Republican Party, which is essential to building a stable governing majority. The difference between racial preferences/affirmative action, as commonly practiced, and the Glenn endorsement is that both Glenn and his runoff...

The news item says: "Miller Enters GOP Fray: U.S. Senator Zell Miller (D-GA) inserted himself into Georgia's 6th Congressional District Republican primary runoff. Miller was disturbed by a television commercial run by State Representative Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA) which questions the the integrity of Dylan Glenn (R-GA)." Can anyone find another and more extensive discussion of this? If so, please post it.

An internal Republican Party struggle over outreach to blacks is playing out with bigwig endorsements in the 8th Congressional District. Both former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp have endorsed Dylan Glenn, making the same argument: Attracting black conservatives is crucial to the party's future. U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss and four Georgia congressmen -- John Linder, Charlie Norwood, Max Burns and Jack Kingston -- have endorsed his opponent, State Rep. Lynn Westmoreland. This particular runoff is in a congressional district that stretches south from Douglas and Fayette counties in metro Atlanta to Troup (LaGrange) and...

Crotts endorses Glenn After questioning candidacy, Crotts says Glenn can beat Westmoreland BY CHUCK WILLIAMS Staff Writer Dylan Glenn, a candidate for the Republican nomination for the open 8th Congressional District seat, received an endorsement Wednesday from one of his former rivals. Mike Crotts, who finished third in the four-man race a week ago, has thrown his support behind Glenn in his Aug. 10 runoff against front-runner Lynn Westmoreland. A formal announcement is planned for this morning in Henry County. Crotts' support of Glenn comes two weeks after the Georgia state senator questioned whether or not Glenn could win the...

Westmoreland, Glenn campaigns at odds over poll By Don Schanche Jr. Telegraph Staff Writer Eighth District congressional candidate Lynn Westmoreland released a poll Tuesday showing he commands a majority over Dylan Glenn, but Glenn's campaign said it received complaints from voters who felt they had been targeted by a "push poll." Two of those voters told The Telegraph they were angered by questions that appeared to be intended to sway their votes, rather than seek their opinion. "They were trying to influence my vote. There's no doubt in my mind," said Newton County resident Denese Rogers. She said she was...

Westmoreland, Glenn headed for runoff in 8th Congressional District By Don Schanche Jr. Telegraph Staff Writer Lynn Westmoreland and Dylan Glenn were headed into a runoff in the 8th Congressional District Republican primary late Tuesday night. With more than two-thirds of the district's 215 precincts reporting, Westmoreland was just shy of a majority, while Dylan Glenn was in second place, according to results posted on the Secretary of State's Web site. Mike Crotts was a distant third, and Tom Mills trailed the pack. At 10:30 p.m., both Westmoreland and Glenn declared it a runoff, while Crotts acknowledged that it didn't...

Fleda Glenn's advice will have to wait. Her son hasn't been sleeping enough and he's not eating right but Dylan Glenn is apparently in a runoff with veteran state legislator Lynn Westmoreland in their race to become the Republican nominee from the 8th Congressional District. "He needs to get some rest. I know he has been going full speed," Fleda Glenn said Tuesday, at the end of a whirlwind day in which her son trailed only Westmoreland in the four-person campaign for Rep. Mac Collins' former seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. With 80 percent of the votes counted...

Friday, July 16, 2004 Glenn Endorsed by the Atlanta Journal Constitution District 8: There are three able candidates with the experience needed to be effective. But the most promising is Dylan Glenn, a Columbus native who can be one of the future stars of the Republican Party. In a party looking to broaden its base among African-Americans, Glenn is the ideal role model: He's smart, savvy, articulate and a genuine conservative comfortable delivering that message. He is well-connected in the White House, where he served as President Bush's special assistant for economic policy, and under the Gold Dome, where he...

ATLANTA - Dylan Glenn became the focus of an 8th Congressional District debate Friday night, as his opponents repeatedly questioned him on whether he lived in the district and on the nature of his working relationship with President Bush. Glenn, a 35-year-old former deputy chief of staff for Gov. Sonny Perdue, said he lived in Fortson in Muscogee County. But state Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, R-Newnan, said he knocked on the door of Glenn's stated residence. Westmoreland said he found a vehicle in the driveway with Texas plates. He said the person who answered the door had never heard of Glenn....

Dylan Glenn hopes the third time lands him back in Washington. The Columbus native, who has worked as an aide in two presidential administrations, is seeking a seat in Congress for the third time since 1998. Glenn lost twice to Democratic incumbent Sanford Bishop in Georgia's 2nd District. Glenn now is trying to win the seat in the ultra-conservative 8th District. He is running against Lynn Westmoreland, Mike Crotts and Tom Mills for the Republican nomination. "I have been here before and I know what it is like to be unsuccessful," Glenn said. "That teaches you that you never want...

Get ready for the unpleasantness. It's coming. The revelation that blacks are about to become the majority in the Democratic Party in Georgia ratchets up the tension within the party and between the parties. One example came this weekend in Savannah, where the Georgia Association of Black Elected Officials gathered to hear U.S. Senate candidates. The keynote speaker, the 82-year-old Rev. Joseph Lowery, endorsed U.S. Rep. Denise Majette, who has a virtual lock on her party's nomination. In a jab directed at Republican U.S. Senate candidate Herman Cain, a black man who succeeded in the private sector, Lowery equated skin...

ATLANTA (AP) -- Herman Cain is a well-to-do black businessman with a strong belief that the Democratic Party that blacks embraced during the civil rights struggle has swung too far to the left. That is why he is running for the U.S. Senate this year as a Republican. More black Republicans are running for office in Georgia this year than ever before, and black candidates in other Southern states are also finding that declaring for the GOP is more accepted than it was just a few years ago. It is a small shift that Republican activists say could pay big...

For Willie L. Talton, 60, of Warner Robins, there was no epiphany, no moment the lights flashed on and he realized he was a Republican. Neither did that moment occur for 30-year-old Nick Chester of Mableton. "I have voted for lots of Democrats," says Talton, the chief deputy sheriff of Houston County. "But in the last two or three years, I have been an independent voter. And as you start voting, you start learning things. I realized all of the candidates I was voting for were Republicans, so I started watching them and I started attending meetings. It seemed like...

Glenn cites national experience in bid for House seat CONYERS — Describing himself as a “mainstream Republican,” Columbus native Dylan Glenn said he is able to stand out from his opponents in the Republican Primary for the 8th Congressional District [Georgia] by running on his experience at the federal level. Active in national politics since serving as a college student intern with the 1988 Bush campaign, Dylan worked from 2000-2001 as a special assistant to President George Bush serving as a member of the White House National Economic Council. He was also named as deputy chief of staff in 2003...

themselves Former U.S. Rep. Bob Barr and Howard "Bo" Callaway, the father of the modern Georgia GOP, took the mike at the state Capitol on behalf of Dylan Glenn on Wednesday. Glenn's the 8th Congressional District candidate running against state Rep. Lynn Westmoreland of Sharpsburg and state Sen. Mike Crotts of Conyers. All are Republicans. If you listened carefully, you could pick up some interesting subtext. Callaway emphasized Glenn as the best Republican candidate "to help George Bush, who's being picked on by everybody in America today." Callaway won the popular vote for governor of Georgia in 1966 but lost...

Many black Republicans running for Congress are turning away from the identity politics of race and ethnicity and, in the process, seeking to reshape the way politicians and voters think about skin color and ideology. In 2004, 10 black Republicans are running for the House and Senate; these candidates come from Georgia, Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Oregon and Rhode Island. Unlike many black Democrats, whose political roots go back to the civil rights battles of the 1950s and ’60s, these Republicans draw a distinction between politics and race, arguing that their worldview has little to do with...

The leading Republican in the state House formally announced his plans Tuesday to run for the 8th Congressional District seat now held by U.S. Rep. Mac Collins. State Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-Sharpsburg) kicked off his campaign at the state Capitol followed by stops in Macon, Columbus and LaGrange. Westmoreland, 53, said he will continue as House minority leader through the next legislative session. State Sen. Mike Crotts (R-Conyers) has also announced plans to run for the congressional seat, and Dylan Glenn, an aide to Gov. Sonny Perdue, has been mentioned as a possible candidate. Collins is leaving his congressional job...