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High Definition Government Coming to Southwest Ga

By Jeff, on April 6th, 2010%

Last summer, I wrote about Gary Horlacher, a Democratic candidate for Secretary of State and his concept of “High Definition Government“.

Mr. Horlacher really was among the first on the ball on ethics, not just in his own race, but in ANY 2010 statewide race. As has been noted repeatedly, ethics is expected to be a key component of this year’s races, and I applaud Mr. Horlacher for “being country when country wasn’t cool”.

Mr. Horlacher is going to be in the general Southwest Ga area for the next few days, and he is actively seeking to meet you. He didn’t give me a schedule of events when we talked, but I’m sure if you drop him an email at garyh at garyforsecretary dot com, he’ll find a way to meet you while he’s down here.
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Gary Horlacher Responds to Brian Kemp’s Appointment as SoS

By Publius, on January 4th, 2010%

The following statement was issued by Gary Horlacher in response to Governor Perdue’s announcement today that he was appointing Brian Kemp to be the interim Secretary of State. If any candidate has a press release about any issue, make sure it gets in my hands and I’ll get it up here.

Here we go again!

Karen Handel backs out of the remainder of her term-of-office as Secretary of State, so that she can focus on her race for Governor, continue raising money, and oh yea, not inject partisan politics into a race that she is involved in, while she is conducting the fundamental role of the Secretary’s office, fair and nonpartisan election oversight. But do Governor Perdue and Brian Kemp agree with her. Clearly NO!
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Democratic SOS Candidate Response to Karen Handel Resignation

By Publius, on December 22nd, 2009%

We just received the following release from Gary Horlacher, a Democratic candidate for Secretary of State, in response to Karen Handel’s announcement this afternoon that she is resigning her post as Secretary of State. Jeff will write his own thoughts later this evening or tomorrow morning.

Congratulations Karen Handel!
This is the first correct action you have taken since entering this office.

Ms. Handel’s mishandling of the Secretary of State’s office has gone way beyond incompetence. She crossed the misconduct line by inappropriately using this office to both foster her own political ambitions and to use her authority in the elections oversight process for her party’s political benefit. By stepping down, she not only provides herself with the much needed “flexibility” to continue raising campaign contributions for her gubernatorial campaign during the upcoming Legislative Session, but she also “ducks and dodges” any needs to be totally nonpartisan while conducting fair, objective and competent election oversight duties.

You want some objective analysis of her conduct of the functions of this office?
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Ethics in Government Law.

By Publius, on December 14th, 2009%

Note from Jeff: This is Gary Horlacher‘s ethics article. He is running for the Democratic nomination for Secretary of State.

Broken and in dire need of repair.

Georgia’s government has a responsibility to function openly, honestly, efficiently, and with integrity. The conduct of public officials is important when entrusted to oversee the public’s affairs. Transparency and Accountability have been intentionally erased in recent years by our current leadership. We need a much sharper focus on ETHICS. Over the last several years, there has been a serious erosion of the public’s trust in government, at every level, national, state, and local, because of an incredible number of cases of corruption and serious ethical and moral breaches.
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Gary Horlacher Has Some Competition for Democratic Nomination for Secretary of State

By Jeff, on August 27th, 2009%

A couple of months ago, I wrote about a guy named Gary Horlacher and his bid for the Democratic Party of Georgia’s nomination for the office of Secretary of State.

Over the past month or so, three other candidates have filed paperwork with the State Ethics Committee to run for the office as a Democrat, two of them with websites – and one of them a current officeholder.

In chronological order according to when the Declaration of Intent was filed, the three new candidates are:

Darryl Hicks of Fayetteville, who filed on July 21.

Michael Mills of Atlanta, who filed on Aug 4.

And Gail Buckner of East Point, who filed on Aug 12. Buckner is the current State Senator from the 44th District and was the Democratic nominee for the office in 2006.

Needless to say, many would say Mr. Horlacher no longer stands a chance – IF he ever stood one to begin with. Me, I say the race just got quite a bit more interesting, though realistically even I expect Senator Buckner to once again be the nominee.

Regardless, we’ll know the winner – or at least who will be in any potential runoff – in 328 days.

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HDGV: High Definition Government

By Jeff, on June 3rd, 2009%

I spoke with Gary Horlacher today. Mr. Horlacher is a Democratic candidate for Secretary of State, and from what I could tell over the phone he seems to be very genuine about the points in the above video.
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