It’s one of two things: Either the Georgia GOP establishment is finally embracing U.S. Rep. Paul Broun, or it’s a trap.
Gov. Sonny Perdue and Broun are teaming up for September skeet shootout/fundraiser in Eatonton to benefit TeenPact, the Christian youth leadership academy founded by Broun’s campaign treasurer, Tim Echols, whom Perdue recently appointed to some state board or other. No word on whether Dick Cheney is attending.
$250 gets you in, $500 gets you a photo and for $2,500 you can shoot clay pigeons with Perdue and Broun.
I’m guessing Bobby Saxon is pretty handy with a shotgun, so I’d be buying a gold sponsorship if I were him … and if I could afford it. On the other hand, given Broun's big-game hunting skills, Saxon could find himself mounted in a D.C. office.
Runoffs redux
My story in today's paper about the suspect wisdom of holding runoffs drew a comment from Libertarian Party of Georgia spokesman James Bell.
Bell wrote in both to brag about selecting presidential nominee Bob Barr at no taxpayer expense and lament not knowing who'd pull a Lib ballot because they're not allowed to have primaries.
"Just one more example of how the playing field is tilted," he said.
When I spoke to Oconee County Board of Elections Chairwoman Pat Hayes for tomorrow's folo, she agreed that runoffs are too expensive to be worthwhile - $700 to open each of the OC's 13 precincts - and advocated opening just the voter registration office and civic center. But the justice department won't let her, she said.
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It's actually a sporting clays shootout/fundraiser.
Skeet is a sissy game.
I volunteer to go shoot for Team ABH. Please go ahead and send in the $2500.00
Broun made a point to stay
Broun made a point to stay in contact with Perdue from the time he was elected. An insider in the captial told me Broun was the only member of the congressional delegation who made a point to conversed with the governor on a regular basis. Broun is a great shot.
We can make this interesting if you want to.
Broun is a great shot.
Not with a shotgun, he's not.
If you want to make this interesting, I've got a little walking around money that says that I can out shoot him.
Of course, picking up on line from Full Metal Jacket, he does have one thing in common with Charles Whitman and Lee Harvey Oswald.
Just make sure you don't say
Just make sure you don't say the Pledge in Spanish or Pauly might shoot you...
It doesn't even have to be
It doesn't even have to be in Spanish. If you butcher our pledge in English, you're deserving of the same fate.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Rep._Broun_reminds_CSPAN_viewers_how_0415....
And what will Mr Broun's
And what will Mr Broun's reaction be, do you think, when he finds out the words of the Pledge were written by a socialist?
And he couldn't even get the damned pledge right himself -- it's "indivisible", not "invisible"!!! Listen for yourself to what he says! What an idiot that man is!
Listen, not only are we a
Listen, not only are we a republic for Richard Stanz, but we're pretty gosh darn invisible too.
Juro fidelidad a la bandera de los Estados Unidos
If he knew how few English speaking, full blooded 'Merican chilluns even bother trying to mumble through the pledge, he would proud of anyone saying it in any language.
By the time they are in high school, less than a third of the students even rise for the pledge. Of course, many teachers lead by example, by not stopping what they are doing when The Pledge is quickly mumbled over the intercom.
Most schools don't play the National Anthem as part of the morning exercise.
This is one of those bizarre little exercises of the ultra-conservatives that I just don't get into.
Sort of like people that insist that only the KJV of The Bible is authentic. It's more important to have people reading it than arguing over which one they should be reading.