I believe ideas and information on Peach Pundit matter. It’s a matter of who reads PP and what they do with those ideas and information that matters.

If you think there is a single candidate (at least GOP, who knows about the Dems) who doesn’t either read PP or have a staffer read it or hear about it from friends then you would be mistaken.

During the legislative session, there will be quite a few folks under the Gold Dome who do pay attention to this. I believe it’s a good thing.

Accepting legal contributions from lobbyists is not illegal, just as it’s not illegal to accept endorsements.

Fail. Try again.

Many of the members that are still there and those that sought his help and were snubbed still remember when our two beacons of hope were Mike “don’t come out from under my desk yet” Bowers and the OX. Bowers for his part fought hard and helped when he wasn’t otherwise occupied. From what I hear the OX spent most of his time of junkets with the powerful instead.

After a fashion, readers can surmise that certain contributors must be either vol or paid for candidate/cause shills, but it would be nice to know.

Mayor Lisa Borders?

Well, she came in third.

And the man in third, he’s at City Hall in the big chair.

NONE of the campaigns have started the actual “campaign” yet. None. Everything now is about raising money and building a GOTV grass roots effort. There is no reason to expect to see polls move significantly before June 1st.

And there is no reason to expect the polls to look remotely the same as they do today on July 1st.

June and July will be fun.

If Rasmussen polls don’t reflect front runner status changes in the next 90-120 days, PP’s nominee will be a side note, much like our final influence over SB31.

I really am concerned Mr. Oxendine may be nominated. There is no time to wait and assume voters will learn or care about Mr. Oxendines’ peccadillo’s.

PP doesn’t pretend we’re about “retail” politics. Most Georgians are content to go about their lives with rational ignorance about politics. Then, a few weeks or even a few hours prior to voting, they’ll start to ask their friends who they know do pay attention about who to vote for.

That’s when the campaign ground games are active, and that’s when you see who a real front runner is.

During that time, you will see Ox stories start to resonate with these folks. You will see some attack ads against him, though I’m willing to bet most candidates save that for whom they perceive is numbers 2,3,4, as each wants to be with Ox in the runoff.

If it were to be one on one with Ox, there will be a lot more people than the candidates throwing everything they have at him. He will not be our nominee.

By Ox trying to go after Westmoreland, however, he got greedy, and the other shoes may now start dropping from other people who aren’t candidates. I lower my chances of Ox making it into the runoff to 40% or less.

I will dutifully attempt to pepper posts with the exclamations of “Good Post!” “Great Post!”….”Right on!”….”Yeah, Baby, you got it going on!” and other such exhortations so that I can be accepted as a member of “Team PP.”

Thank you, Mr. Balz, for letting me know I was out of tune. Please feel free to point this out in the future should I stray again.

Nothing more? You wish.

He told Westmoreland repeatedly that he would just hate it, hate it to see Lynn’s name in the press. And, he told him he would do everything in his power to keep Lynn’s name out of the press.

1st sentence is the threat.

2nd sentence is the invitation to play ball to avoid the terms in the threat.

Keep in mind these conversations happened after Deal had become “Radioactive”, and was touting his new found “birther” status. It would be a great time to pry Lynn away from Deal if he was so inclined.

Lynn stuck with his man, and about two months later, he got a call from GPTV indicating it was Oxendine personally who gave Lynn’s name to the reporter.

That’s how shakedowns work, or don’t work.

Ox = Fail.