In a statement released by Handel’s campaign, Palin said she was “coming to Georgia to campaign with my friend Karen because it is absolutely critical that Georgians nominate an ethical leader and a true conservative to take the fight to Roy Barnes in November.”
Former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel’s campaign for governor will get a last-minute boost from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who plans to visit Georgia on Handel’s behalf on the eve of the Aug. 10 Republican runoff primary.
In a statement released by Handel’s campaign, Palin said she was “coming to Georgia to campaign with my friend Karen because it is absolutely critical that Georgians nominate an ethical leader and a true conservative to take the fight to Roy Barnes in November.”
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Former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel and former Rep. Nathan Deal, competing in a Republican runoff primary for governor, have both pulled in about half a million dollars since the first round of primary voting last week, their campaigns said Wednesday.
Handel adviser Robert Simms notified fundraisers of the total in an e-mail message Wednesday morning, writing that Handel “raised $500,000 in one week, surpassing our total for the last fundraising quarter.” Deal spokesman Brian Robinson told POLITICO that as of Tuesday night, the former congressman had raised $498,000 since the July 20 vote. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) has received a $5,000 donation from the Congressional Black Caucus political action committee, only the latest signal that national African-American leaders are firmly behind the white congressman as he fights back a primary challenge in his black-majority district. The donation to Cohen’s reelection bid Monday comes slightly more than a week before he and former Memphis mayor Willie Herenton face off Aug. 5 in the Democratic primary. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney threw his support behind Georgia Republican Karen Handel on Wednesday, the day after she finished first in the governor’s primary.
Romney joins former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in backing Handel, the former secretary of state who took 34 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s seven-way primary. She’ll face Nathan Deal, who took 23 percent of the vote, in the Aug.10 runoff. Deal, who resigned from Congress after nine terms in March to focus on his campaign, has the backing of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. By Jessica Taylor and Alex Isenstadt Former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel finished first in the state’s GOP primary for governor Tuesday night, punching her ticket to the runoff in three weeks. Her opponent Aug. 10 will be former Rep. Nathan Deal, who resigned from Congress in March to focus full-time on his campaign. Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch will drop his bid for governor Thursday, allowing state Democrats to avoid a fight for the party’s nomination before what's already shaping up to be a contentious three-way general election.
A source close to Lynch's campaign confirmed to POLITICO that he will end his campaign Thursday, the last day for filing in the state. President Barack Obama backed Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) for reelection Tuesday, boosting the Democrat’s efforts to repel a primary challenge from a former Memphis mayor who charges the white lawmaker can’t effectively represent his majority-black district.
Cohen’s campaign released a statement from the president calling the second-term Memphis congressman a “proven leader in the United States Congress and a strong voice for Tennessee.” “Together, we passed historic health care reform, and, together, we’re continuing the fight to renew our economy and bring jobs back to the American people,” Obama said in the message. “I am proud to stand with Steve and support his reelection to Congress.” Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann leads her Democratic challenger by nine points but falls short of the 50-percent safety zone for incumbents, according to a SurveyUSA poll.
Bachmann, a second-term Republican, is ahead of Democratic state Sen. Tarryl Clark by nine points, leading 48 percent to 39 percent. Two independent candidates draw eight percent of the vote – Aubrey Immelman takes two percent and Independence Party nominee Bob Anderson takes six – with five percent up for grabs. A new mailer from Tennessee GOP congressional candidate Ron Kirkland brings up a familiar issue in his continued efforts to paint his primary opponent Stephen Fincher as the Washington establishment — the Troubled Asset Relief Program bill.
There’s just one problem, though: a bank at which Kirkland sits on the board of directors received TARP money as part of the bank bailout and has yet to fully pay back the federal government. With the tagline “Just more of the same from Washington,” the flyer in the 8th District race says Fincher “was recruited to run for Congress by Washington politicians, and the same politicians who sold out our country voting for TARP and the bailouts have held fundraisers for Fincher.” Willie Herenton, the former mayor of Memphis, doesn’t beat around the bush when he talks about his primary challenge against Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.). He’ll tell you straight up that the election is about one thing: race. Herenton’s campaign slogan — “We just want one” — refers to his assertion that an African-American deserves to hold at least one of the state’s nine House seats or two Senate seats. In case anyone still doesn’t get the point, on his campaign website Herenton provides a helpful tab titled “The Real Picture,” which offers photos of the blindingly white Tennessee congressional delegation, with a head shot of himself in the 9th District slot. The headline of the page? “This Picture Looks Better.” |
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