The Club for Growth is running ads in the Ninth Congressional District against Lee Hawkins, hitting him for supporting wasteful spending and supporting Democrats.
I’m trying to get a copy of the ad to post here.
[UPDATE] Here is the ad:
Fresh Political Pickins From The Peach State
The Club for Growth is running ads in the Ninth Congressional District against Lee Hawkins, hitting him for supporting wasteful spending and supporting Democrats.
I’m trying to get a copy of the ad to post here.
[UPDATE] Here is the ad:
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Lobbyist.
Excellent
The only thing worse than having your baggage strewn across the district is having someone besides your opponent pick up the bill for it.
I was number 56 voting for Graves in Dade this morning. What a expensive election for three months. I haven’t seen the ad yet. Some times the media gurus forget that NW Georgia gets our TV and Radio from Chattanooga.
So what’s new? More attacks based on lies. Funny how Hawkins raises $100k in 3 weeks, and this lying video is the kind of trash that hits the front page of Peach Pundit.
Impressive.
It’s one of Jason’s favorite lobbyist organizations.
What lies?
Hawkins saying Graves jobs bill doesn’t do anything to create jobs right now (which it absolutely doesn’t, “shot in the arm that Georgia needs”? havent seen it yet…oh ya it hasnt been signed, and if it is it still wont be any shot in the arm…simply fact) does not mean he sided with dem’s, if you can remember he and tom had to resign to qualify before it was voted on. Very crafty use of the word “sided” since they couldn’t use vote. Saying he wont repeal Obama care? I will refer you to his mail piece that said, and i quote “Lee will begin working on day 1 to repeal Obamacare”. and finally i will refer to the same mail piece that discusses him urging through SR 992 (which he authored) the “single subject rule” that would help in preventing congressional earmarks and out of control spending…the entire commercial is lies…just another special interest trying to buy a race for their candidate…business as usual
I just started paying attention…are Graves and the Club for Growth linked in any way? Hmmmm…smells fishy
He even posted the news release before he even had the video…a little eager are we? PP is a joke.
How much did Graves raise in the past 3 weeks? Half what Hawkins did? Ya i think thats right…good thing his out of state endorsers have enough money to pick up his slack
I wonder what the average contribution to each candidate was and what the total number of contributors were. Raising the MOST money is a meaningless metric without the other clarifying points. It could be (although I don’t know) that you simply had some deep pocket donors.
Has anyone accessed this info?
You’re apparently not on the email list.
McDawg, I recommend you look at the disclosures yourself. Graves has plenty of big donors not including the $100,000.00 from out of state money he has received.
I recommend you disclose who you really are.
Why? Just because he doesn’t have a big “G” avatar?
I was told about the ad last night at the Peach Pundit Road Show by a reader who was hanging out with us and heard it over the phone from his brother.
So please, feel free to engage in wild speculation.
No demon sheep? *yawn*
Club for Growth has a habit of running adds “against” candidates they actually support to make them look more moderate. Their huge success was Huckabee in Iowa where $358,000 got him the Republican primary. NY 23 their strategy backfired and a Democrat was elected, in a special election to replace the fellow who was named Secretary of the Army, for the first time in over a hundred or so years.
That is the craziest analysis I’ve heard in quite some time. The Club tried to kill Huck because . . . they love him?
Seriously.
Pretty sure Club for Growth opposed Huckabee b/c he was a tax raising statist. Not to mention an idiot.
Agreed.
I voted today. One down, Five more to go this year?
Special (done for me)
Special run off
Primary
Primary runoff
General
General run off
80% of success is showing up. – Woody Allen
Harry,
Great point!!!!!
Bill Stephens For Congress, True conservative leadership
I like Bill, but he has not chance.
How can you trust a Republican who rushed to a photo op with Joe Biden when he came to Georgia to announce the handout of bailout money for internet service? The most dangerous place to be in Georgia that day was between Lee Hawkins, Joe Biden and a camera. You would have been run over by Hawkins getting to the stage for that photo op with the #2 in the Obama administration. Lee Hawkins may be a Republican but he is not a conservative.
Where’s the photo? Enough of the bs.
Ok Fact check time. Hawkins was at the event VP Biden attended, but there is no photo or video. Hawkins attended because one of his supporters was getting a part of the stimulus bill awarded to him.
I’m not saying it’s good, I’m not saying it’s bad. I’m saying from what I have been told, that’s the way it is.
DG,
If that is all it was, to “support” one of his “supporters” why did Hawkins feel the need to put out a press release touting how he had “joined Joe Biden”????
I’ll let the Hawkins campaign answer that one. I was weighing in to establish that he WAS there, and that as far as I know, there are NO pictures. I told you the reason I was told he was there. I’m not going to chase down details for you like you’re an assignment editor and I am a reporter.
You want answers? Go ask the questions to the people who can give you the answers. In this case, that’s not me.
Didn’t Lee praise the stimulus pork being spent in his district?
Wasn’t the governor there as well? New industry coming to GA *wether we approve of the way it was handled* isn’t something to take lightly.
You want pictures?
http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/archive/27305/
Governor is most prominent – a couple of shots of Lee – one of him sitting on the front row.
He was there. Is there a picture of him hugging up to Biden? Never saw one at the time and can’t find one now.
Let’s stay with the facts…
I couldnt see him in any of those pictures. I may have not been looking in the right place but he was nowhere near Biden.
I guess us republicans have to watch who we are within 100 ft from now, dems own us
He put out a press release Josh, just cause there wasn’t a picture doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
1000 ft if you’re on the registry.
I’m not sure he /she will know what that means.
From your own account, Mr. Brandon, you must have been there as well…
As a casual observer of this site I find it very interesting that a group of conservatives that would seem to be believers in private enterprise and small business would be such strong supporters of a candidate that refuses to explain what he does to earn a living and has been serving in elected office since the ripe young age of 32. It seems like you might want a candidate that has had proven success and experience in the economic system that you believe in.
Casual observer, yeah, right!!
Lol.
For such a higly respected “PAC”, they don’t do their homework… This from Hawkins on healthcare overhaul:
“Hawkins Condemns Health Care Vote by Congress
Worst Vote in Decades, Will Cost Millions of Jobs
(Gainesville)- State Senator and Republican candidate for Congress Lee Hawkins condemned the congressional vote to pass so called health care reform Sunday night. Sen. Hawkins is a candidate for Georgia’s ninth congressional district.
“This is the worst, most tone deaf, most economically negligent vote that any U.S. Congress has ever taken,” said Dr. Hawkins, a family dentist and former President of the Georgia Dental Association. “It is going to cost millions of jobs and therefore destroy the economic livelihood of untold numbers of families.”
“Their 2,700 page bill was made public only 72 hours ago, but apparently H.R. 3590 will require virtually every single business in America to provide health care insurance to all employees, even part time ones. Each insurance plan must be approved by the federal government. This will result in many businesses no longer hiring employees, full or part time ones, and forcing many small businesses to fire employees to stay profitable.
“Make no mistake about it, big corporations already provide health care. This legislation is mainly a weapon being used against small and family run businesses.”
“No one will work harder than me in the next Congress to overturn this disastrous plan,” said Hawkins.
Georgia State Senator Lee Hawkins (R-Gainesville) has been a dentist operating a successful family practice for more than 30 years. He is the former President of the Georgia Dental Association.”
When it comes to politics, Game Fan views “clubs” as a bunch of sick disgusting shallow opportunists, who probably don’t have an ounce of collective ideology among the whole lot. Yeah, this looks more like a friggin’ soap opera than a debate on conservative issues. Basically “clubs” can kiss my grits.
If your vote for Hawkins you are voting for government corruption.
Hall County Commissioners are under GBI investigation. Hawkins turned a blind eye to all of it and is lousy at helping those he reps.
His staff actually sent be a lie when I emailed to ask about the property tax issue in hall county. If you value good gov. vote for anyone else.
Why not say that both US Senators and the Gov. are corrupt as well? I’d like to see the “lie” that was sent to you.
A State Senator not telling the County Commission how to do their job is very week evidence or corrupt politics. Can you give an example of his staffers lies? From what I read, I think your mad because your property taxes didn’t go down.
Just another anonymous Gravesbot, Doug. Don’t expect anything meaningful.
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