JasonPye.com (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
On the heels of the poll in the GOP primary, Rasmussen released the results for the poll from likely Democratic primary voters. Former Gov. Roy Barnes stayed about the same, while Attorney General Thurbert Baker more than doubled his support...
examiner (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Roy Barnes’ loss in the 2002 Gubernatorial race as an incumbent was a shock to many. Sonny Perdue, the current Governor, unseated Barnes after being outspent at least 6 to 1 and trailing in pretty much every poll and survey leading up to the...
Peach Pundit (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
A friend sent along a link to the latest video, and quite possibly one of the worst I’ve ever seen, from John Oxendine’s campaign that essentially lies about the fiscal record of former Gov. Roy Barnes: Despite all of the rhetoric from Republican, Roy Barnes was fairly conservative on economic issues during his term in office. The [...]
JasonPye.com (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
A friend sent along a link to the latest video, and quite possibly one of the worst I've ever seen, from John Oxendine's campaign that essentially lies about the fiscal record of former Gov. Roy Barnes:Despite all of the rhetoric...
JasonPye.com (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Roy Barnes says he is "fed up" with Republicans and Democrats:"I'm going to take this county next year," he said, after giving a campaign speech at the Gwinnett Rotary Club on Tuesday. "This is not an election about Democrats and...
Peach Pundit (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
It sounds like Roy Barnes was in rare form yesterday. Barnes was speaking to the Gwinnett Rotary Club yesterday and said, among other things, that he will win Gwinnett country next year and he’s so fed up with the Democrats and the Republicans that he’d “…be a Bull Moose or a Whig if they [...]
Political Activity Law (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that former Gov. Roy Barnes has said his campaign will not accept lobbyist contributions. “As you get older, two things happen to you,” Barnes said. “One is you learn from mistakes you’ve made in the past, and secondly, you get to the point where you decide, ‘I’m just not [...]
ajc.com (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Hoping to make a comeback next year, former Gov. Roy Barnes has challenged his fellow gubernatorial opponents to steer clear of special interests that helped fuel his costly but unsuccessful re-election bid in 2002.
Patriot Room (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
... Hussein Iraq, that he stopped attending their meetings. But Senator Miller, appointed by Roy Barnes, then Democrat Governor of the Peach State, to complete the term of Paul Coverdell after his death, never got so disgusted that he changed parties. Joe Lieberman (pictured, courtesy of TMR) is younger than Zell Miller and making bold, unprecedented moves against the party he has caucused with...
Righteous Jackass (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
... be tasked with the job of crafting the narratives, language, and ads for individual campaigns. Has Roy Barnes been declared the Democratic Party candidate for Governor? I hope not. He's on my shit list right now. I will not vote for him, period. The ad repeats the 2002 Georgia Repubican Party meme "King Roy the Rat." Rat is the word that jumps out at me, lots of negative associations...
Wonkette (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
A Republican candidate for Georgia governor in 2010, John Oxendine, e-mailed political reporters about some epic YouPorn thing he had just shot, one that would destroy the Democratic candidate, former governor Roy Barnes, politically: “A campaign spokesman said the ad ‘demonstrates John Oxendine’s commitment to using innovative, cutting-edge genre to communicate serious messages...
Bad Attitudes (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
This is the greatest political TV ad ever made (h/t Jay Bookman ), and I'm pretty confident we shall not see its like again. John Oxendine is the Georgia insurance commissioner, hoping to be the next governor. The rat is onetime governor Roy Barnes, for whom see this .
adfreak (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Just when you think political ads can't get any worse, along comes this four-minute travesty starring a rat (a stand-in for the villainous Democratic former governor, Roy Barnes) and an ox (representing the ad's strong though perhaps somewhat dumb creator, John Oxendine). Via The Awl , which believes the ad "is not just stupid, it is powerful stupid ." A commenter over there adds: "This is the...
JasonPye.com (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
... ethics commission. Of course, the whole thing is a lib'ral conspiracy by godless people backed by Roy Barnes! At least that sounds like something the Oxendine campaign would say.
Oconee Politics (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
... unanimous (with the probable exceptions of hometown favorite son Michael Thurmond and possibly Roy Barnes) GOP sweep in Georgia for 2010, although much could erupt to change that. No Democrats have stepped up or even hinted at running against Paul Broun or Johnny Isaakson. Isaakson is by far a much superior politician to almost anyone on either party, and does not make stupid, incendiary...
