No one has heard anything from Rep. Calvin Smyre I assume.

In a 11-22-04 post entitled "This summer's loser. The Gang's Ms. Scott for her giddy (& unfortunate) pronouncement that 'The Democratic Party is the party of the blacks,'" I wrote:

[M]y favorite low profile political trio – Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond, Attorney General Thurbert Baker and former state Democratic Party Chairman Calvin Smyre – remain most vigilant in rebuilding our state's white-black Democratic coalition as we all work together in reviving the crumbled Democratic power and putting back together again our Humpty-Dumpty Democratic Party of Georgia following our November 2002 whipping.

With Thurbert Baker announcing his run for governor a year ago and Michael Thurmond expected to announce a challenge to Sen. Isakson later this week, I need to revise my above-quoted description. The words "favorite" and "trio" remain accurate and intact. But I am going to abandon the "low profile" part.