MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Democrats' disappearing act
By EmmaZahn on Tue, 06/19/2012 - 12:19pm |
The only hope for the almost-vaporized Democratic Party is that the GOP is so God-awful incompetent
I ran into Joe Hendricks, the district attorney for the Appalachian Judicial Circuit, at an arts festival in Blue Ridge last month. Hendricks was handing out leaflets for his re-election campaign. He told one woman: "Vote for me on the Republican primary."
The woman: "Republican? I've never voted for a Republican in my life."
Hendricks grinned: "Sorry, ma'am, but there just aren't many Democrats left. They local elections this year will all be on the Republican primary."
That's the sad state of the Democratic Party in Georgia, a species that is endangered by self-immolation.
What the GOP has done to the Dems is akin to what Gen. W.T. Sherman (R-UrbanRenewal) did to Georgia — except the Yankees actually had to fight occasionally as they burned the state. Some of the Democrats' best legislators, such as Rep. Stephanie Stuckey Benfield (D-Skedaddle) and Sen. Kathy Ashe (D-Out of here), have gone AWOL. The House and Senate Republicans, bulked up by craven cash from lobbyists, now have brawny two-thirds majorities.
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