John Monds Needs To Get His Tail in Gear

John Monds IS the best candidate for Governor of Georgia in 2010.

I wholeheartedly believe that statement, and I’ve already publicly and privately pledged to do everything I can to help John become the next occupant of a certain mansion on West Paces Ferry Road in Atlanta. I am FIRMLY committed to doing just that.

I personally met John at this year’s Libertarian Party of Georgia Convention, and he really is a GREAT guy and solid Libertarian. He is extremely gracious as well, giving up his South GA Rep position on the LP-Georgia Executive Committee to let me have it. I remember that scene QUITE well, and he could have kept that position if he had wanted to. Honestly, that scene and his actions in it proved to me what a classy guy he is, and admittedly, it plays a significant role in how I think of him. I’ve also talked to him on a few occasions about things both political and not, and I can honestly say I would trust him as much as a close friend.

That said, you don’t hear too much about him on this site. Why not?

Quite honestly, it is because his campaign doesn’t DO much. Indeed, while the GOP and Democratic candidates are going full-bore campaigning, the most recent update to VoteMonds.com, his campaign website, was the May 3, 2009 interview that he did with Fox 5 Atlanta.

Now, I know what his campaign’s argument is going to be, that we need to let the GOP and Democrats beat each other up over the next 350 or so days before kicking our campaign into active gear following the Primary.

The problem is, we can’t afford to. Because everyone else is out campaigning, people are already beginning to decide who they will support for Governor and why. Many of those people will ultimately vote for the same Party as their chosen candidate in November, even if their particular chosen candidate loses next July.

So we NEED to get out there RIGHT NOW and work to get the same levels of exposure as the other candidates. Ray McBerry and Austin Scott – two men that most people say don’t stand a CHANCE next July – are already out there campaigning hard. They’re both working the web and going to multiple events and getting their name out there.

Meanwhile, the Libertarian candidate is virtually silent. He came to the LP-SWGA organizational meeting in May and he’s been to one meeting of LP-Atlanta, chaired by my friend Anne Harper, one of LP-Bartow, and maybe a few others I am not aware of over the summer. But no interviews I am aware of, no activity on his site, very little Facebook activity, very little Twitter activity, and ZERO emails. Furthermore, any time John goes to a public event as part of his campaign, it needs to be on his website! Heck, John is going to be at the GeorgiaCarry.Org convention tomorrow on a panel with three other Governor candidates and a few other elected officials, and even THAT is not on his site!

The only other candidates that I’ve seen have the same level of activity so far? Roy Barnes and Thurbert Baker. Genuinely good company to be in, seeing as how many predict one of those two to be the Democratic Party nominee. Not so great company to be in when one considers the fact that nowhere NEAR as many people predict one of those two winning the Governor’s Mansion.

I genuinely do not expect the winner of this race to be necessarily the person with the most money – but I DO expect the winner of this race to have a fairly substantial amount of press beforehand, and press is generated by activity – even if that activity is nothing more than press releases on various issues and internet/social networking activity.

So to John and his campaign in particular, we need you more active.

Please?!