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By Jeff, on July 28th, 2010%
While Nathan Deal and Karen Handel fight over abortion and teh gayz, there is another battle getting very nasty that you may not be aware of:
The Hudgens/Sheffield battle for Insurance Commissioner.
Both Hudgens and Sheffield are trying to put the noose of The Ox around the other’s neck. Both have been tied to him at various points – Sheffield as a lawyer and lobbyist for the Insurance Department, Hudgens as the Chair of the Senate Insurance Committee, where Ox was a frequent speaker.
Both have donors who have supported Ox in both his Insurance Commissioner and Governor races, though Hudgens has the support of Ox’s Assistant Commissioner and was the only candidate of these two to receive money from John Oxendine himself. The money in question here was $500 to Hudgens’ State Senate account in 2008, a year before Hudgens filed to run to replace Ox, from Ox’s Better Georgia PAC.
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By Jeff, on May 8th, 2010%
The following is an email I got from Maria Sheffield this morning in response to last night’s “Apparently It Was All Talk” post. She raises some fair points – very similar to the ones Tom brought up in his comments. And maybe I was a bit too harsh on both Karen and Maria last night. When I am wrong I will admit it, and on this issue, I probably was.
Without further ado, Maria’s response:
I pledged to not appear at any event where both Ray and I were featured speakers on the program. To demonstrate that it was not just talk and that I was sincere about this, I cancelled my speech at the Moral Nation event in Hall County for May 22 (it got much traffic on Facebook) because Ray was a featured speaker.
I have also, in a less public manner, declined to speak at a number of GOP breakfast or meetings because Ray was also going to speak.
But Jeff, seriously, I am not a candidate for Governor and I never never stated or promised I would never be in same room with the man – I did not make that promise exactly so I would not be accused of what you have just suggested.
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By Jeff, on May 7th, 2010%
Last week, Tom wrote about Karen Handel and Maria Sheffield publicly condemning Ray McBerry and apparently refusing to attend events with him.
The problem?
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By Jeff, on May 1st, 2010%
The following is from conservative activist Bryan Miller, via his Facebook page. In the comments on it, Maria Sheffield re-iterates what she had earlier said on twitter about not appearing where Ray McBerry is. Karen Handel made similar claims today at a forum hosted by Jim Galloway, while other candidates had a much weaker response.
Anyway, here’s Bryan’s post:
It has come to light in recent weeks that long shot GOP candidate for Governor Ray McBerry, a former teacher, carried on an inappropriate relationship with an underage girl while he was the girl’s youth pastor. While I will not go into specific details of the allegations, and what McBerry himself admits to, the information can be found here via the AJC: http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2010/04/29/parents-church-and-judge-told-future-gop-candidate-for-governor-leave-the-girl-alone/
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By Jeff, on April 23rd, 2010%
Last Saturday, the 2nd Congressional District GOP got together for a BBQ and Congressional Debate at Lee County High School. I’m trying to adopt a general policy that if it is a political event in Lee County, I intend to be there with my video camera, so I was there. Heck, I even voted in the straw poll!
While there, I had a chance to meet with a few of the candidates that were present. Maria Sheffield was the late arrival, but she was also the most engaging with this political blogger. Seth Harp, one of her competitors who has sponsored at least one thing in the State Senate I am strongly in favor of (local referendums on Sunday alcohol sales), was rather dismissive. I also had a chance to speak with Gary Black for a few moments, as well as Mike Keown, Rick Allen, and Lee Ferrell. Harold Logsdon was there, but unfortunately I didn’t get a chance to speak with him.
Overall, the event went well. Quite a few people there were in campaign t-shirts of various campaigns, but Lee Ferrell was the only one I noted with any real “contingent” of what appeared to be staffers. The others had brought along a staffer/area volunteer or two, with the rest of the t-shirts for their campaign appearing to be simply supporters from the area. I did not personally witness any mass vote buying, nor did I hear any rumors of it. It appears that this was a genuine one person/one vote straw poll, so take that for what it is worth. (Still not very much, but relatively better than polls with mass vote buying.)
Anyway, here’s the videos:
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By Jeff, on September 15th, 2009%
Maria Sheffield officially announced her Insurance Commissioner candidacy with a press release yesterday that was sent to Peach Pundit’s Jason Shepherd.
The two most glaring things from that press release?
1) The headline says she announced via Facebook and Twitter. The problem here is that while she DOES have a Facebook page, I’ve been searching high and low for a twitter account – including asking quite a few people behind the scenes, doing a google search, and using twitter’s in-house search feature – and there flat out isn’t a twitter account with her name on it anywhere. So she’s already lieing, and this is only her first press release!
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