Couple of things
- Habitat for Humanity is one of my favorite organizations, and Dorsey Village is a step in the right direction regarding affordable housing (as is, say, something like Fourth Street Village spearheaded by Athens Land Trust), but John Songster's letter focuses on micro-fixes to the problem, rather than a coordinated macro-fix.
- I put together a District Eight primer.
- We all jumped all over the statement released by Brian Kemp's camp on Friday night saying he's challenge Ralph Hudgens in the primary in 2008, but Blake got Kemp who said he was now just considering challenging him. I still say he's going to give it a go against him. The GOP leadership will probably line up behind him too.
- A nice forum regarding Partners for a Prosperous Athens by Red Petrovs and Steve Jones, and it helps set us up for the implementation phase of this project. The next meeting is Monday, March 19, and I'd encourage you folks to go check it out.
- Please ... anyone but Florida.
- I put together a District Eight primer.
- We all jumped all over the statement released by Brian Kemp's camp on Friday night saying he's challenge Ralph Hudgens in the primary in 2008, but Blake got Kemp who said he was now just considering challenging him. I still say he's going to give it a go against him. The GOP leadership will probably line up behind him too.
- A nice forum regarding Partners for a Prosperous Athens by Red Petrovs and Steve Jones, and it helps set us up for the implementation phase of this project. The next meeting is Monday, March 19, and I'd encourage you folks to go check it out.
- Please ... anyone but Florida.
posted by Jmac at 7:20 AM
6 Comments:
Hudgens might not even run for re-election: Kemp would kill him. Wouldn't be close. 65-35, at least.
JMAC -
Any comment on the fact that the ABH asked the District 8 Commission candidates their religious affiliation in the article on Sunday? I find that completely irrelevant to the job at hand - they also asked for their political party which is also irrelevant - but it is at least closer to the job than which Church they go to.
-David
Thanks for stopping by David.
If I can remember correctly from my days at the ABH, it's just something they've always asked. It probably has something to do with the fact that this is the South, long known as the Bible Belt. Growing up in Augusta, I always got asked 'what's your last name' and 'what church do you go to' ... so I think it's more of a nod to the traditional aspects of it than anything else. Plus, I do imagine that a good number of folks, perhaps rightly or perhaps wrongly, have a great deal of interest in that.
I mean, outside of establishing your residency, your address is technically irrelevant to the job at hand as well, but they still ask that.
As for political party, I don't think that's entirely irrelevant. Understanding the political philosophy with which one identifies with goes a long way in understanding how they will approach certain issues such as land use, private property rights, social justice, etc. I do concede that local politics offer a different shade in this whole thing as I've come across some pretty local progressive Republicans and some pretty local conservative Democrats, but party affiliation isn't without merit.
Why is FL in the Midwest?!
In other random, non-post related news -- I just read an article in Esquire about "The Next Tiger" or the guy who might be "the next" (it's some Austrailian whose name I'm too lazy to look up and I don't remember it) and there's a sentence in there trashing your boy CH-3.
Something like, "It's the gentle skill and pin-point accuracy that gives [Aussie guy] the potential to be the next Tiger, instead of say, the next Charles Howell III, another in a long line of newsomes who golf like a teenager f*cks."
Yikes.
Yeah ... maybe that Australian kid will pan out like the next Ty Tyron or something.
And it isn't like Howell's, you know, leading the FedEx Cup standings and PGA Tour Money List or anything.
No love for Chucky Three-Sticks.
I certainly won't vote for Hudgens though I haven't decided if I hate him enough to vote in the Republican primary; however, I don't know why everybody is thinking that Kemp is just going to cream him. I still think Ralph is at least a 2:1 favorite. I don't think most people appreciate how hard it is to beat an incumbent. I don't think that Ralph not observing proper etiquette for Norwood's death is going to matter two years from now. I don't think that Ralph backing down from Congress will matter either. Redistricting doesn't matter to Republican Primary voters. At the end of the day, he's still capable of raising a lot of money - I would argue more than Kemp and he's still a Chairman of an important committee. His colleagues in the Senate will back down from their support of Kemp and won't get involved in the least or maybe even support Ralph. Sure, Ralph has made enemies in Madison County which is why I give Kemp such gracious odds. I doubt Kemp will wish to jeopardize his pretty boy stance in the GOP by getting into a mud slinging contest.
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