13 Nov 2008

Georgia: dump Saxby Chambliss on December 2

Saxby Chambliss, chickenhawk extraordinaire, is in a runoff to keep his Senate seat in Georgia. Despite McCain carrying Georgia 52%-47%, Chambliss was unable to ride his white coattails to victory. People were pissed at him for voting for the Wall Street Giveaway, and they punished him just enough to force him into runoff against Jim Martin.

I'm voting for Jim Martin. He's the most progressive candidate Georgia has produced in a white, heterosexual male body since Jimmy Carter. His legislative record is solid, he's smart and hard working. I've voted for him many times over the years, and I'm happy to do so again.

Georgia 2008 Statewide Write-In Absentee Ballot (SWAB) for Jim Martin
But most importantly, Jim Martin is not Saxby Chambliss. In 2002 Chambliss won his Senate seat by sliming his opponent Max Cleland (a veteran who lost his limbs in Vietnam) as a terrorist sympathizer. He ran hand-in-hand with Governor Sonny Perdue whose platform of a "Confederate Flag for Georgia" helped propel them both to victory. It was shameful, and I'm still ashamed. It would be redundant to call out his record on voting for the Iraq war, voting for torture, voting for spying on US citizens, voting for retroactive immunity for the telecom companies who spied on Americans, and so on.

Georgia's Secretary of State has no information about the runoff election on her department's website or its Election 2008 website, so she obviously doesn't want people to vote – after all, turnout would be bad for the GOP. It's a shameful state of affairs, but if we "other folks" vote again, we can send Chambliss packing with the man he said he was "goin' to Washington DC to work for", George W. Bush. This time we can elect Jim Martin who will work for the citizens of the State of Georgia.

Vote December 2.

3 comments:

Scott said...

If Georgia is doing their runoff with write-in ballots, that's gotta help a guy named Jim Martin win out over someone whose name looks like "Sexboy Chablis". Honestly, is he some kind of male stripper?

Scott said...

Just had to add... the very beautiful irony... my Google "verification word" for that last post was "cornstar"!

Mamluke said...

well that's just depressing Chuck - - We're heading to Atlanta today in fact - ugh. At least I can toss facts at my evil sister now with impunity - so thanks!