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By Jeff, on August 6th, 2009%
There have long been rumors flying around about the Ox campaign’s intimidation tactics with both insurance agents and bloggers. Recently, both Jenny Hodges and myself have come forward with testimonies of this.
Now, it seems that Gabe Winslow and Jeff Breedlove – Ox’s blogger relations guy and Chief Strategist, respectively, actively worked to intimidate Kyle Constable, a 15 year old kid, yesterday regarding his initial reporting of the fact that youcanstopobama.com was a blatant bait and switch scam to build Ox’s database – a report that I picked up later in the day and ran with myself, knowing that they know better than to try to intimidate me, as it has already proven unsuccessful in the past.
In Kyle’s own words,
Let me summarize this for you. These two members of the Oxendine campaign, Jeff Breedlove and Gabe Winslow bullied me into changing my story and they still expect me to support Oxendine for Governor.
You can read the details for yourself on Kyle’s site, but basically he was asked by Gabe to call the campaign, and he did. At that point, Gabe and Breedlove essentially ganged up on him and ordered him to paint the youcanstopobama.com website in a positive light. When he asked questions about what would happen with the data gathered, they dodged them and never gave him a straight answer.
One last quote from Kyle: “One of them even said that when I saw that on the site people would be getting Oxendine emails I should have just moved on with my life and not said anything.”
Silencing critics?
Is this REALLY something we want to see in the Governor’s Mansion?
[UPDATE BY TOM - 8/7/09 @ 10:00 AM] Apparently, Kyle got another call from Jeff Breedlove trying to lay down the guilt trip because their conversation was supposed to be “off the record”. Unfortunately for them, Kyle felt it more important to pass along his account of being intimidated. Breedlove did finally apologize for some of what he said to Kyle, but he still seemed to be trying to get Kyle to feel bad about posting what was supposedly an off the record conversation.
As I said on Kyle’s blog, I don’t condone posting off the record comments, but I can certainly understand why he did and don’t condemn him for it either.
By Jeff, on August 6th, 2009%
I’ve gotten a few campaign updates over the past week that I really haven’t had time to do a detailed post on, so here’s a shotgun-style update on them:
Tom Knox has indeed filed to run for State Insurance Commissioner, as I reported would happen more than a month ago. I didn’t get any campaign emails, and I don’t know if he has a website or any other contact information (facebook, twitter, email, heck, even a phone number) available. No quick Google search turns up any site, but in related news the post where I first reported this would happen is the second result in Google on a search of ‘Tom Knox insurance’. Pretty cool!
Speaking of the Insurance Commissioner race, Mary Squires’ campaign found that post and emailed me earlier this week this link to a press release they issued late last week with a list of legislative endorsements. Just from a quick glance, it appears that all named are Democrats – which is reasonable, since she is a Democrat. Two SWGA area names are on that list – State Rep Gerald Greene (D-Cuthbert) and State Senator Freddie Sims (D-Albany). Probably the most politically significant name on the list is State Sen Emmanuel Jones (D-Savannah), the head of the Legislative Black Caucus.
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By Tom, on August 6th, 2009%
BREAKING NEWS
Karen Cohilas just reported on WALB that apparently, Buie was writing personal checks to cover expenses, would turn in invoices, and after checks were written, would cancel his checks. Specifics weren’t very apparent, and I hope that Cohilas follows this up .
More will be posted as more information becomes available.
[UPDATE 4:54 AM] – It looks like I added my own words and inserted them into Karen’s mouth, since she never actually said the word “personal” as best as anyone can confrim. That’s what I get for writing with a family running around. The blame for that is all on me.
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By Tom, on August 6th, 2009%
It’s your property, so you can do what you want with it, right? Such a simple yes or no question can’t be answered simply by any city official. If you want to build, then the zoning has to be looked at and possibly modified. If you have a vehicle sitting in your drive way that you don’t drive for whatever reason, code enforcement can still slap a sticker on it telling you to remove or replace it by “X” date.
It’s absolutely ridiculous. Continue reading The non-existence of property rights
By Tom, on August 6th, 2009%
LaJuana Woods receiving $50,000 in the form of a fascade grant that she never should have gotten isn’t remotely in dispute. The ADICA board, however, seems to lack the integrity to actually do a damn thing about it. Phil Cannon, who appears as the lone exception it seems, made a motion that Woods give the money back. Woods had even said she would do just that if asked. But no one made a second on Woods motion, effectively killing Cannon’s motion. Continue reading No integrity on ADICA board
By Jeff, on August 6th, 2009%
Continuing our brief series on the Lee County Library, let’s use yesterday’s listing of the costs, advantages, and disadvantages to try to select a particular site.
As I said in Part 1 of this series, good visibility from the highway is key to me. That would make the library/meeting center easy to find, easy to give directions to, and hopefully even get some spur of the moment drive-by traffic. Therefore any site not easily visible from Hwy 82 is automatically out of contention, meaning Sites F, H, and I are gone – and site G is barely on.
Next, in order to maximize actual space that can actually be developed, the site needs to have off site storm water retention. This eliminates Site C, leaving us with Sites A, B, D, E, and G in contention.
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By Jeff, on August 6th, 2009%
and he can’t even claim to be the first to do it this cycle.
For those who missed it, earlier today John Oxendine announced his latest campaign ploy – since all the others so far have gone over like lead balloons – in the form of an online petition to ‘stop Obamacare’.
The problem is, it really is a blatant attempt to do nothing more than build his campaign database, as evidenced by the second screenshot below. The first is the front page of this ‘petition’.
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