Cox's campaign launch set Tuesday in hometown in the Other Georgia.
In an AJC article earlier this week announcing Cathy Cox's campaign launch next Tuesday in her hometown of Bainbridge, Jim Tharpe, one of the best political reporters around -- while no doubt rushing to make the press deadline -- wrote:
"The event signals the start of what is expected to be a bitter Democratic primary battle for the party's nomination. Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor, who has a vast political network and is better financed than Cox, is also seeking the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.
"The winner of the Democratic primary will face Republican Gov. Sonny Perdue in the November 2006 general election. Perdue is the state's first Republican governor in more than a century."
What's wrong with this? Nothing if you are into mainstream thinking, and this is certainly what Gov. Perdue hopes is the case.
But Bill Shipp for one agrees with me that there remain many in Perdue's own party who are far from ready to sign off on this script that Perdue will be the '06 GOP nominee.
As noted in the caption to my 3-27-05 post, "GOP and Democrats assume it will be Perdue in '06. But Shipp agrees with Sid it is possible that an ABS -- Anybody but Sonny -- candidate will emerge."
Other than this minor oversight due to time constraints, Jim Tharpe had an interesting article about Cathy Cox and female governors in America.
He writes:
"Georgia, like most other states, has never elected a female governor. But Cox believes her time has arrived.
"'The good thing for women in politics is that the meaner and more partisan it gets, the more people are open to the idea that a woman might not play all of those games, and might be more of a consensus builder who will focus more on getting things done than beating people over the head with a partisan agenda,' Cox said . . . .
"Cox is well-acquainted with breaking molds. She was the first female legislator from her county and Georgia's first female secretary of state. Her gubernatorial bid, however, puts her on a much larger and more competitive stage.
"Two dozen women have been elected governor in the nation's history. Only three of those — Lurleen Wallace in Alabama (1967), Martha Collins in Kentucky (1984) and Kathleen Blanco in Louisiana (2003) — have been elected in the South, excluding Texas. That state has elected two women chief executives, Miriam "Ma" Ferguson (1925) and Anne Richards (1991)."
"The event signals the start of what is expected to be a bitter Democratic primary battle for the party's nomination. Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor, who has a vast political network and is better financed than Cox, is also seeking the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.
"The winner of the Democratic primary will face Republican Gov. Sonny Perdue in the November 2006 general election. Perdue is the state's first Republican governor in more than a century."
What's wrong with this? Nothing if you are into mainstream thinking, and this is certainly what Gov. Perdue hopes is the case.
But Bill Shipp for one agrees with me that there remain many in Perdue's own party who are far from ready to sign off on this script that Perdue will be the '06 GOP nominee.
As noted in the caption to my 3-27-05 post, "GOP and Democrats assume it will be Perdue in '06. But Shipp agrees with Sid it is possible that an ABS -- Anybody but Sonny -- candidate will emerge."
Other than this minor oversight due to time constraints, Jim Tharpe had an interesting article about Cathy Cox and female governors in America.
He writes:
"Georgia, like most other states, has never elected a female governor. But Cox believes her time has arrived.
"'The good thing for women in politics is that the meaner and more partisan it gets, the more people are open to the idea that a woman might not play all of those games, and might be more of a consensus builder who will focus more on getting things done than beating people over the head with a partisan agenda,' Cox said . . . .
"Cox is well-acquainted with breaking molds. She was the first female legislator from her county and Georgia's first female secretary of state. Her gubernatorial bid, however, puts her on a much larger and more competitive stage.
"Two dozen women have been elected governor in the nation's history. Only three of those — Lurleen Wallace in Alabama (1967), Martha Collins in Kentucky (1984) and Kathleen Blanco in Louisiana (2003) — have been elected in the South, excluding Texas. That state has elected two women chief executives, Miriam "Ma" Ferguson (1925) and Anne Richards (1991)."
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