Very few gave serious weight to a report that Denise Majette may try to find her way back to Washington.
Things must have been pretty slow this past Tuesday for Baxter & Galloway of AJC's Political Insider. You know, the legislature having adjourned, etc.
Thus they did some checking on something that they knew did not matter. What in the world?
They begin a column with the ironic headline: "Here's something new and different: A former state judge wants to take on Cynthia McKinney."
We readers chuckle and think, the more things change the more they stay the same. Then we continue reading the column.
Of the many Democrats we talked to Tuesday, very few gave serious weight to a report that Denise Majette may try to find her way back to Washington.
Which comment gets me to my point. What in the heck does what many Democrats say and think have anything to do with what Denise Majette may do?
She makes her decisions after conferring with a higher authority than any Democrats Baxter & Galloway might talk with. Besides, as Majette let the world know on the steps of the Capitol when she announced she was running for the U.S. Senate, she does not care what other Democrats might think, including the many Democrats who cared for her and her former 4th District constituents and who had advised her to keep her 4th District congressional seat and not run a race she could not win for the U.S. Senate.
Anyway, back to Baxter & Galloway. Their balance of their column on Denise Majette reported as follows:
The Hill newspaper in Washington reported Majette as saying she might try to return to Congress by challenging Democratic incumbents Cynthia McKinney of DeKalb County or John Barrow of Athens.
"I've been approached by a number of people who have asked me to consider running for Congress again," Majette told The Hill.
[How many people Majette? But at least they were people and not a higher authority.]
If she runs in the 4th District, the former state judge is unlikely to get the same degree of anti-McKinney support she won in 2002 — simply because she ditched the seat to run for the U.S. Senate only 18 months later.
In the new congressional map, yet to be approved by the U.S. Justice Department, Barrow is paired with Republican incumbent Charlie Norwood of Augusta in the 10th District that covers northeast Georgia.
A Majette contest against Barrow presumes the Athens congressman will move his residence into the new 12th District that stretches from Augusta to Savannah. This is highly likely.
But Majette would be forced to move as well — politically, not constitutionally. Congress has no residency requirements. And she's only two months into her new job with the DeKalb-based law firm Keegan Federal & Associates.
Thus they did some checking on something that they knew did not matter. What in the world?
They begin a column with the ironic headline: "Here's something new and different: A former state judge wants to take on Cynthia McKinney."
We readers chuckle and think, the more things change the more they stay the same. Then we continue reading the column.
Of the many Democrats we talked to Tuesday, very few gave serious weight to a report that Denise Majette may try to find her way back to Washington.
Which comment gets me to my point. What in the heck does what many Democrats say and think have anything to do with what Denise Majette may do?
She makes her decisions after conferring with a higher authority than any Democrats Baxter & Galloway might talk with. Besides, as Majette let the world know on the steps of the Capitol when she announced she was running for the U.S. Senate, she does not care what other Democrats might think, including the many Democrats who cared for her and her former 4th District constituents and who had advised her to keep her 4th District congressional seat and not run a race she could not win for the U.S. Senate.
Anyway, back to Baxter & Galloway. Their balance of their column on Denise Majette reported as follows:
The Hill newspaper in Washington reported Majette as saying she might try to return to Congress by challenging Democratic incumbents Cynthia McKinney of DeKalb County or John Barrow of Athens.
"I've been approached by a number of people who have asked me to consider running for Congress again," Majette told The Hill.
[How many people Majette? But at least they were people and not a higher authority.]
If she runs in the 4th District, the former state judge is unlikely to get the same degree of anti-McKinney support she won in 2002 — simply because she ditched the seat to run for the U.S. Senate only 18 months later.
In the new congressional map, yet to be approved by the U.S. Justice Department, Barrow is paired with Republican incumbent Charlie Norwood of Augusta in the 10th District that covers northeast Georgia.
A Majette contest against Barrow presumes the Athens congressman will move his residence into the new 12th District that stretches from Augusta to Savannah. This is highly likely.
But Majette would be forced to move as well — politically, not constitutionally. Congress has no residency requirements. And she's only two months into her new job with the DeKalb-based law firm Keegan Federal & Associates.
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