Please secretary of state candidate Gary Horlacher, no more self-serving goody-goddy affidavits unless you tell it all brother, tell it all . . .

I did a 1-3-08 post that read:

I met Dale Cardwell on August 4, 2007, at the State Committee Meeting that was held in conjunction with the Georgia Association of Democratic County Chairs (GADCC) annual dinner to award the Richard B. Russell Public Service Award.

I requested to be removed from his e-mail list on December 31, 2007, when he informed the recipients of his mailing that he would be spending his time 320 feet in the air on the Corey Tower until further notice.

Bill Shipp's column this week recounts how Gary Horlacher, an Atlanta attorney and Democratic campaign strategist, began his campaign for secretary of state a couple of weeks ago.

He had, according to himself, taken a lie-detector exam and passed with "a score twice the minimum passing score," which Mr. Shipp with tongue-in-cheek observes, must mean "Gary was lying very little."

Before sharing how it gets even worse, and knowing that it is not good to discuss religion and politics in polite company which my readers most assuredly are, the following words of the Master and Greatest Teacher of all times come to mind from Matthew 7:1: "Judge not, that ye not be judged."

After announcing his polygraph exam results, he shares that he swore in an affidavit (redundant talk for a lawyer I know, such as two twins) that:

"During my marriage of over 31 years to Teresa, I have never engaged in any type of sexual activity with another person."

Didn't Mr. Clinton say about the same thing, but here Gary is covering all bases by lawyerly saying "in any type" with any other person.

And then another:

"I have never used any illegal drugs." Again thinking about Mr. Clinton, does Gary need to define "used" to include not inhaling.

And the following is what Mr. Shipp describes as "the capper":

"Throughout my career, both in the private sector and in public service, I have never engaged in any illegal or unethical activity, whether for quid-pro-quo payment to myself or others, or to further the interest of a client or business."

Mr. Shipp in his column notes:

One mean-spirited reporter noted that despite his goody-goody affidavit, Horlacher was arrested for DUI in 1999, a charge that caused him to resign his brief tenure as former Gov. Roy Barnes' press secretary. The charge was reduced later to reckless driving, and Horlacher went on to aid Shirley Franklin in her 2001 election as Atlanta mayor.

Is driving under the influence or recklessly legal activity?

Unlike Dale Cardwell, I am not writing Gary Horlacher off from my consideration of him as secretary of state. But unless he is going to tell it all brother, tell it all, I hope in the future he lets the record speak for itself rather than taking an holier than thou attitude and playing games with the electorate.
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And speaking about the record, it was tongue-in-cheek even more forcefully that Mr. Shipp described the "you're not going to get away with that" reporter as being "mean-spirited." He knew it was one of this blog's favorites, the one and only Tom Crawford of Capitol Impact who first called Gary's hand by reporting in Political Notes on April 29:

One question not on that list [of questions Gary submitted to the polygraph examiner] concerns Horlacher’s work with Roy Barnes in 1998 and 1999. He was Barnes’ press secretary in the new administration but resigned from the job after being arrested on a DUI charge (the charge was subsequently reduced to reckless driving).