Doug Monroe begins new blog. He reports Cathy Cox will not run against Saxby in '08 & shares her recent statement about her position on Mark Taylor.
On September 15 Doug Monroe launched a new blog, Peachtree Screed.
In one of his first posts he reports:
Secretary of State Cathy Cox says she won't run for the U.S. Senate in 2008. This is the first time that Cox. . . has publicly ruled out the race.
I sent her some e-mail questions a few weeks ago [with some political questions, including] whether she will vote for Mark Taylor for governor this year and whether she's had any contact with him since the primary. Cox wrote:
"I made clear my support for Mark Taylor during my concession speech on election night. But I cannot, and will not, take any sort of formal role in his campaign. As Georgia's chief election official, charged with certifying the final election results, there is a provision in our election code, which I wrote, by the way, that prevents me from formally endorsing candidates or taking an active role in campaigns. We put that provision into law after the 2000 presidential election, when Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris was roundly criticized for chairing George Bush's Florida campaign even as she dealt with certifying the election and reviewing the recount. The restriction we have in Georgia protects the integrity of the process, it's a good provision, and I'm going to abide by it."
In one of his first posts he reports:
Secretary of State Cathy Cox says she won't run for the U.S. Senate in 2008. This is the first time that Cox. . . has publicly ruled out the race.
I sent her some e-mail questions a few weeks ago [with some political questions, including] whether she will vote for Mark Taylor for governor this year and whether she's had any contact with him since the primary. Cox wrote:
"I made clear my support for Mark Taylor during my concession speech on election night. But I cannot, and will not, take any sort of formal role in his campaign. As Georgia's chief election official, charged with certifying the final election results, there is a provision in our election code, which I wrote, by the way, that prevents me from formally endorsing candidates or taking an active role in campaigns. We put that provision into law after the 2000 presidential election, when Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris was roundly criticized for chairing George Bush's Florida campaign even as she dealt with certifying the election and reviewing the recount. The restriction we have in Georgia protects the integrity of the process, it's a good provision, and I'm going to abide by it."
posted by Sid Cottingham | 3:33 PM
1 Comments:
Now if only some juvenile numbskulls could get this into their tiny, hate-filled heads about Cathy's support and her reasons for putting her job first (Katherine Harris's 2000 performance is a clear and excellent example), we could stop ticking people off, and perhaps energize some folks that are currently either cold or lukewarm towards Taylor.
We need these people to do more than vote. We need them to give time and money in an effort to lure some fence sitters into the voting booth in Nov. and push the button for Mark.
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