Scandal taints Georgia’s GOP governor as Democratic challenger surges in polls
Music to my ears! 
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/18/scandal-taints-georgias-gop-governor-as-democratic-challenger-surges-in-polls/
Scandal taints Georgia’s GOP governor as Democratic challenger surges in polls
By David Ferguson
Friday, July 18, 2014 15:17 EDT
Georgia’s Gov. Nathan Deal (R) is caught in an ever-deepening ethics mess as his popularity with Republicans dwindles and a rising Democratic superstar takes the lead in the 2014 gubernatorial race.
Raw Story spoke with Bryan Long, director of the progressive group Better Georgia, who said the governor has run out of ways to skirt the corruption charges that have dogged him literally since the day he was sworn in. Particularly, Long said, now that Deal’s own hand-picked “ethics investigator” has turned against him.
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“No elected Republican has come out to support Gov. Deal,” he noted. “He’s on an island. His house of cards if falling.”
One reason, Long said, is because “they don’t know which of his many stories to tell. The governor’s story is shifting so quickly that people in his own party are scared to tell the story because they’ll contradict whatever the governor is saying from one day to the next.”
A real mark of Deal’s mounting difficulties, however, is the fact that Democratic challenger State Sen. Jason Carter — grandson of former President Jimmy Carter — is beating Deal in the polls by a steadily widening margin.
Conservative pollsters Landmark Polling found that “Carter received 48.7 percent in the poll and Deal received 41.3 percent. Libertarian Andrew Hunt received 4 percent of the vote in the poll. The poll has a margin of error of +/- 4 percent.”
If he wins in November, Carter would be the first Democratic Georgia governor since Gov. Roy Barnes, who left office more than a decade ago in 2003.
Furthermore, said Long, Deal has already cost taxpayers more than $3 million in settlements and damages.
“There was a $1.15 million jury verdict,” he said. “After that, the state settled all the other whistleblower cases. And now, more are coming.”
“The governor is costing Georgia taxpayers every day he’s in office,” Long concluded.
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the thing is, Deal should never have been elected in the first place 
and being that this is Georgia, I wouldn't give up on Deal just yet.
These people have an irrational fear of the letter "D" behind politicians names.
Hell, I might even think about moving down there! 
Monica....it's the end of the world! Impeach!
Benghazi...let's make one up!
Obama...where do I start? Birth certificate, Bill Ayers, he's a Muslim...
Can you imagine if 9/11 happened on a Dem's watch? I absolutely believe it wouldn't have, but we would have never heard the end of it. 
Swift-boating of Kerry and Max Cleland who were both a hero in Nam.
I fucking DESPISE them.
One can hope we will finally come to our senses.
Anyway, thanks for the OP. Love it, love it, love it.
No... I LOVE it!
Thanks for the thread, babylonsister. 
I've got Georgia on my mind.
Go Jason Carter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 
Awesome bsis.
I remain forever hopeful! 
Hope is good.
I feel a ground swell coming on, I felt it both times with Obama. Somethings happening here...yes it is. We are going to break records in 2014!
encouragement! That IS what we're all about. 
