Chuck Sims represents Atkinson, Coffee, and Jeff-Davis Counties in south Georgia. It’s House District 169. Sims received 13,039 votes in 2008. He garnered no opposition.
In Atkinson County, he received 2,078 votes while the Presidential election garnered 2,904 votes total.
In Coffee County, he received 10,677 votes while the Presidential election garnered a total of 13,747 votes.
I can’t break out Jeff-Davis because he does not represent it all. It’s pretty clear that Sims is in a safe Republican district.
But he could be challenged in a primary. He is a preferred candidate of social conservatives. But social conservatives really don’t take too well to someone jacking up grocery costs.
According to Chuck Sim’s last campaign contribution disclosure report, he has cash on hand of $10,656.97. Surely we could find someone to run against him and raise more money than that.
Frankly, unless Republicans start running challengers in primaries against people who file stupid legislation to jack up taxes on groceries, we’re going to get more of the same.
There needs to be some accountability. Sims needs a challenger.
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He is a preferred candidate of social conservatives. But social conservatives really don’t take too well to someone jacking up grocery costs.
NONSENSE! The only thing Chuck has to repeat often enough in his speeches and campaign literature is the following:
- I am pro-life
- I am anti-gay marriage
- Obama is a liberal and we must fight his tyranny
- I am against allowing local jurisdictions to vote for Sunday sales of alcohol.
That’s all he needs to do, and the “social conservatives” (i.e., religious socialists) will fall behind him and fan away the gas emitting from his rearend as he walks among them.
Knocking him out in the primary is going to be like pulling teeth with a rusty pair of pliers. The only way to knock him out is to find an equally socially conservative challenger – who just so happens to be a staunch fiscal conservative as well. And then you have to run this whole grocery tax thing into the ground and hope people wake up.
It’s not as easy as it sounds – and I’m not sure anyone from that area is willing to try.
Take the word might out of the title of this post and it is on the mark.
There should be no “safe seats”. Competition is good everywhere. Look at the collective quality of the General Assembly. Is this as good as it gets? Politicians should not establish their own districts and choose their own consitutents. We have a self preservation system. These are not “free” elections.
PD,
Sooo..anyone on YOUR side of the aisle that you would care to point out as being less than “as good as it gets?”
I’d love to see you be able to do anything but worship at the feet of the Left-Wing Obama Worshippers. Got any integrity, PD? I won’t hold my breath.
Plenty, most of the DeKalb and Fulton delegations. And in case nobody reminded you today, you are a dick.
PD,
Names, Bitc*h. Let’s hear YOU offer the NAMES of which lefties you don’t think are “good enough,” ya Little Bitc*h.
And, by the way, define why they don’t meet your standards? Is it because they are not left enough?
“Names, Bitc*h. Let’s hear YOU offer the NAMES of which lefties you don’t think are “good enough,” ya Little Bitc*h.”
“And in case nobody reminded you today, you are a dick.”
Not sure why saying “most of the DeKalb and Fulton delegations” isn’t acceptable.
Maybe this is too semantic but Bill, you never actually censored B****.
Very good observation, Rugby. The use of the * fools the filtering so that the intended word actually gets in without being censored.
Not sure why saying “most of the DeKalb and Fulton delegations” isn’t acceptable.
Because it doesn’t define ANYTHING with regard to what “principles of the Dem Party” those members are in violation of.
Does PD’s distaste for that delegation mean they are “too left” or him or “too right”?
BS, You aren’t worthy of a discussion.
And your opinion isn’t worth the byte space it takes up.
BS is challenged by reading. I will reiterate my original post where I pointed out that competitive elections were good everywhere. I was critical of the entire general assembly, like many PP posters have been in recent days ( ie Georgia Power bill, Sunday sales, and grocery taxes). I never singled anyone out on “his side of the aisle”, not that many would want to associated with such a no-talent, ass clown.
BS in his delighful and engaging manner goes off into nuclear attack mode. Put the bottle down, Bill.
Didnt he used to be a Dem?
I’m all for holding someone accountable for the legislation they propose, however relentlessly hammering a man while he is home burying his mother is tasteless and cruel.
Bill Simon said :
“That’s all he needs to do, and the “social conservatives” (i.e., religious socialists)…”
Bill, the evanjelliyfish voters have become Christian Statists. It is a form of fascism, one 2008 GOP presidential candidate, who was a unique “God salesman” never met a social program he couldn’t expand. Compassionate conservatism on steroids. The only thing that these folks want to conserve is big government.
Lots of off topic discussion here, but I think it’s fair to say that there are quite a few people trying to find a primary opponent for Mr. Sims.
It is still quite inconceivable that some House Republicans thought raising the grocery tax was a good idea, especially during this unfortunate economic downturn.
Bull Moose: “It is still quite inconceivable that some House Republicans thought raising the grocery tax was a good idea, especially during this unfortunate economic downturn.”
Some House Republicans? It’s really not so hard to understand this asinine behavior , once you realize that a majority have indeed lost their minds, it now makes perfect sense.
Erick,
Only one problem with this article, in your title you use the word “might”.
Jon
“inconceivable that some House Republicans thought raising the grocery tax was a good idea…” Oh yea, just like the $1.30 for for rate payers to Georgia Power for a 5% guarantee for investors.
Do the math, it’s only $4.00 per hundred on groceries. Where did I hear that before? David Patterson of NY.
Now McCain Clintonite, what you going to do about that? Zell Miller had more sense than any of you modern day Republicans. It was under Zell’s administration this grocery tax was done away with, yet it’s under a Social Conservative it’s brought back?
Why doesn’t Sims propose a tax sin tax on condoms? Isn’t birth control between a man and his wife a sin?
bowersille-
“sin tax on condoms?”
Good idea. Then I could sell tickets to lectures on Natural Family Planning and how males can be sterilized free and safely for 7 – 9 months at a stretch.
The only conservative in the House who actually looks at each bill, reads it, then compares it to the Constitution, is Bobby Franklin.
Everyone else uses a logical methodology which is a strong proponent of limited government, meaning: your life and liberty is limited to what I say it is.
Let me tell you something Jenny, I have avoided this conversation every sense you have come on this board. I’m feed up with your mind set and I’m trying to be nice about this.
My wife all but lost her life, her head swelled up like a purple basketball when the toxemia set in due to the poisoning of a dead fetus. I watched her, all but dead, and the doctors telling her they couldn’t even give her medicine to promote an early delivery even though the fetus was dead through medicine prior to Roe v Wade.
So if you want to lecture me, well eff off, you and your happy family. You haven’t lived what my wife lived through and the likes of you labeled us as pro-abortion. Well eff you and the horse you rode in on.
How about that?
PD,
I was critical of the entire general assembly, like many PP posters have been in recent days ( ie Georgia Power bill, Sunday sales, and grocery taxes)
Yes, well, “critical of the entire general assembly” is a convenient position to take when your pepes eff-up at the same time the GOP pepes eff-up.
But…what I am asking is if YOU know how to specifically point-out one person on your “progressive side” that actually offends you politically.
I’m looking for (again) you demonstrating you have any disgust for a specific individual(s) on your side of the aisle for you to call out by name. See, I think you’re petrified of bucking the Dem gauntlet and naming names.
These posts have given Sims all that he needs to win again. All that he has to do is brand his opposition as the candidate of the Macon, Atlanta, Savannah crowd and the voters in Atkinson, Coffee and Jeff Davis will re-elect him in a heartbeat.
Bowersville,
Dude did you even read Jenny’s post? It had nothing to do with lecturing you. Good grief.
“Well eff you and the horse you rode in on.”
I am not a horse, perhaps a royal steed would have been more fitting.
Bowersville,
You doctors were idiots that needed to be sued for malpractice. Period. Removing a dead baby isn’t an abortion, removing a live baby for the life of the mother (ectopic pregnancy) isn’t an abortion.
Abortions were being done all over the country in hospitals long before Roe v. Wade.
Don’t congratulate yourself on holding back. Let ‘er rip, and let the cards fall where they may. I’m perfectly happy dealing with facts, and anyone who wants to blast away with them.
As far as “the likes of me”, could you please name me one other person you know who is like me? I’m skeptical that you can do that.
I love horse back riding. Where’d the horse go? I don’t remember that part of this journey.
“Well eff you”
I have to confess, I’ve never really understood why that’s a cut down. I mean really. Isn’t that something we all look forward and want more of? So I guess I should say, thank you. No doubt I’ll be happily effed tonight.
Isn’t that something we all look forward and want more of?
Only catchers. Pitchers just want to pitch.
Good point, Dash. Glad you clarified.
Well, except for band camp. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t count if it happens at band camp.
Well, let me bow down and worship at the feet of those that know better than me. HB-1 requires that papers be filed at the courthouse. My wife’s doctors, being incompetent fools, decided my wife would have to carry her unborn dead to term because some idiot, some DA might just decide she didn’t eat right or prosecute the doctors, she ate Monsanto garbage.
Well, that didn’t happen, she didn’t eat Monsanto.
I’m pretty involved and informed on activism all over the nation, and there isn’t even a pro-life DA with the balls to come after anyone like that. So give me a break.
Your wife’s doctors were idiots, and you feel a need to take it out on me.
Whatever makes you feel better.
ALTHOUGH…Miss Jenny…the way your HB 1 is currently written, B’ville’s claim would be correct. And, I’ve already covered this earlier with regard to what a DA may or may not do.
Ugh, Bill. Miss Jenny? You gotta not do that.
Mmmm. I don’t agree, Bill. But then HB1 was not directed or written by me, and the bill is going to receive a complete overhaul this year before being submitted next legislative session.
Sims WAS a Democrat till the Dems lost the House. If someone runs against him it will only cost lots of money for no results. Sims has beaten Democrats AND Republicans. The State Democrats are out of touch with the people in central South Georgia. Those people down there are not going to send a Democrat to Atlanta. Sims won as a Democrat after the area switched over, but it was because of who he is, not the party label he was running under. He is related to about half his district. He goes to bat for his folks…all of them. He is actually the best thing the Dems have going for them down there cause he gets along well with them, is still close friends with the older Democrats, and is a moderate. He bills himself as a social and economic conservative, but a liberal when it comes to helping folk who cannot help themselves…the old, sick, or challenged. The food tax bill was an effort to keep property and income taxes from going up and it would have exempted older people. If you all want to run someone, choose a district where they have half a chance. District 169 is not going to do it. Don’t underestimate Sims. The man has a huge heart and is a political master.
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