Bill Shipp's reaction to Cathy Cox's move with respect to EMILY's List funds.
Bill Shipp writes:
The stigma of EMILY: Secretary of State Cathy Cox's decision to refuse to accept contributions from the liberal Democratic-oriented EMILY's List probably cost her governor's campaign a bundle. Her brain trust says she had no choice.
Otherwise, with EMILY's List cash on her disclosure report, Cox would have faced a barrage of charges that she is a national, pro-choice Democrat who wants to be governor. Says a spokesman for Cox: "Turning down this money makes it much harder for (her adversaries) to distort this small-town girl from Bainbridge into some wild-eyed character. Cathy's agenda isn't to change the abortion laws or anything else like that. It's to get in office, take on the good-old-boy politics and make our government work for all Georgians. Taking this money would have become a distraction that our opponents would use to deflect from their own shortcomings and records of good-old-boy insider politics. We won't let that happen."
The stigma of EMILY: Secretary of State Cathy Cox's decision to refuse to accept contributions from the liberal Democratic-oriented EMILY's List probably cost her governor's campaign a bundle. Her brain trust says she had no choice.
Otherwise, with EMILY's List cash on her disclosure report, Cox would have faced a barrage of charges that she is a national, pro-choice Democrat who wants to be governor. Says a spokesman for Cox: "Turning down this money makes it much harder for (her adversaries) to distort this small-town girl from Bainbridge into some wild-eyed character. Cathy's agenda isn't to change the abortion laws or anything else like that. It's to get in office, take on the good-old-boy politics and make our government work for all Georgians. Taking this money would have become a distraction that our opponents would use to deflect from their own shortcomings and records of good-old-boy insider politics. We won't let that happen."
posted by Sid Cottingham | 11:10 AM
2 Comments:
This is absurd! Bill Ship is useless lately. Moving to the center to get "swing" voters is a losing strategy. Cathy Cox has made a huge mistake. I'll support her or Taylor, if I have to (Taylor has made similar statements) but she just lost my enthusiastic support, and I won't donate money to either of their campaigns now. This says to me, of both Cathy and Mark, "I don't stand for anything."
It doesn't matter. If you tell people she took money from EMILY (and it can only be 5000 max right now) now one will know what EMILY is so nothing will come of this.
As to moving to the middle, she obviously has not learned from the Kerry campaign about how to win in GA. Take a stanse on issues and run with it. As seen on this site a little lower down, Georgia is divided into thirds politically, so if she runs as a liberal, she still can win.
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