As I begin to type this, Austin Scott is on the steps of the State Capitol in Atlanta, completing a journey he began on June 27 in Chickamauga that wrapped around the entire state, going into many communities that had probably never personally seen a Governor candidate.
I personally walked 10 miles with Scott back in July out of Bainbridge and into Climax, and it was a good chance to get to talk to the man as both a man and a politician. Many of his actual ideas and policies I completely disagree with – but that is to be expected with a GOP candidate. But I trust the man. And in someone I know I’m going to disagree with, that is the number one thing I look for – that I can trust them and that they’ll listen to me. Scott does both.
Something else I want to pass on here is a twitter conversation this morning involving Scott, a Handel staffer (Austin Ivy), and myself (‘veritasthorn’ there).
@ScottForGA: The final day of the Walk has arrived
@AustinIvy: @ScottForGA Does anybody besides you care? Part of leadership is time management, you wasted a lot of time.
@veritasthorn: @austinivy @scottforga went to the ppl. The other GAGOV candidates wait for the ppl to come to them. Yet u question HIS leadership?
So while the other GAGOV candidates waste time going to BBQ after BBQ after BBQ and event after event after event waiting for people to come to them, Scott shows some initiative and goes out to find the people, and a staffer for one of these do-nothing wait-for-people-to-come-to-me candidates has the cajones to question HIS leadership? Interesting indeed…
Finally, Aaron Gould Sheinin, the AJC’s Gold Dome reporter, went out Thursday and walked 4 miles with Scott inside the Perimeter of Atlanta, and he had a great article in yesterday’s AJC – far more poetic than I could ever possibly hope to be.
Congratulations, Rep Scott, job well done. I look forward to seeing your actual position statements and watching your campaign continue to develop.
Now go home for a well-earned rest!
Jeff,I could knot agree with you more about what an honorable, trustworthy man Austin Scott is! While Ive only known him a short time,I gain more respect for him everytime I talk with him. I had the oppurtunity to walk the last several miles of his walk-a-thon to the steps of the Georgia capital.During our walk, not only did we get to talk about all the issues I chose to bring up, I also got to meet his family and talk with them.I quickly realized where he gets his morals and values. They were a delightful bunch of folks to spend the morning with.I can assure the Handel campaign, Austin manages his time just fine! I believe thousands of Georgians who met him over the past 64 days would agree with me. As a Georgian, I look forward to next November when Austin Scott is elected our next governor. He will serve the citizens of our great state with fairness and integrity.I am a better man for the time Ive spent with Austin and his family. God bless all of them!
I won’t go so far as to say he needs to be our next Governor – that goes to John Monds – but Scott is the best combination of sanity and efficient government that we can hope for from the GOP right now.
Yeah, what I found pretty incredulous about Ivy’s statement was the fact that Scott has managed to fulfill all of his duties as State Rep (and there are committee meetings, caucus meetings, and other things that they do even when not in session), be at many of the very same events that other GOP GAGOV candidates are at, and STILL complete this Walk. And Ivy wants to talk about time management?
Considering that some of these events that both Ox and Handel go to are during the day and there have already been SEVERAL of those days, many are starting to wonder exactly how many sick/vacation days those two get…