Georgia voters vote on December 2 in two partisan run-off elections, for U.S. Senate and for Public Service Commission. In the Public Service Commission race, neither the Democrat nor the Republican had polled 50% because of the presence of the Libertarian nominee, Brandon Givens. On November 17, Givens endorsed Jim Powell, the Democrat. Givens’ press release says, “After speaking with Powell, I’ve discovered that he too has the vision for a new system that would allow for both a free market in energy and a growth in green technology. He also shares my strong opposition to ex-parte communications, the behind-closed-doors dealings between PSC members and the industries they are charged with regulating. He will stand up for transparency in government. I strongly encourage all voters, Libertarian and fiscally conservative to vote for Jim Powell.”
As far as is known, the Libertarian in the other run-off partisan race, Allen Buckley for U.S. Senate, has not made any run-off endorsement. The run-off for U.S. Senate is between Saxby Chambliss and Jim Martin.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution of November 17 has this op-ed by Mathematics Professor James Wiseman, urging Georgia to use Instant-Runoff to avoid December run-offs in the future.
WE HAVE MORE TO DO:
Democrat Jim Martin is in a runoff against Bush Republican Saxby Chambliss for the Senate seat from Georgia. Bush’s Saxby Chambliss voted against spending a few measly dollars to provide health care coverage for Georgia, and Americas needy children. But he supported wasting hundreds of billions of your dollars, and the life BLOOD of Americas finest on an unnecessary war in Iraq.
At a time when 47 million of you have no health insurance coverage, and over 100 million of you with insurance are just one major illness away from complete financial destruction. Bush and Saxby Chambliss voted to make the heart break of bankruptcy relief even harder for all of you to use.
You see, Bush and Saxby Chambliss, and his family don’t have to worry about their health care coverage. They have the finest health care coverage your tax money can buy for them. Courtesy of you. The American Tax payer. In fact, no one but the super rich can afford the health care coverage you the tax payer provide for Saxby Chambliss, and his family for FREE! with your tax dollars.
He supposedly works for you. But he doesn’t think you and your family should have access to the type of taxpayer supported FREE health care that you provide for him, and his loved ones for FREE!. Doesn’t that just make you BURRING MAD!
Vote for JIM MARTIN for US senator from Georgia. Vote for JIM Martin who will be on your side. Vote for JIM MARTIN who will work with President Obama and a majority congress for you. Vote for JIM MARTIN most of all for your-self, your family’s, friends, and loved ones. Vote for JIM MARTIN for a better America, and a better World.
Don’t let Saxby Chambliss make a chump out of you by tricking you into voting against your own best interest. Saxby chambliss is NOT! on your side. He’s not one of you. He is on George Bush’s side. And we all know what a catastrophe the Bush Chambliss administration has been the past 8 years.
Contact all your family and friends and do every thing you can to see to it that JIM MARTIN and GEORGIANS! take that senate seat back for Georgia, and America. No matter where you live in America. This is important to you. President Obama will need all the help, and power you can give him to try and fix this catastrophic mess that the Corrupt Bush Chambliss administration has created.
As I said before you will have to vote in overwhelming numbers to overcome the Bush Chambliss “Let Them Eat Cake” vote fraud machine. Vote early if you can. Then help everyone you can get to the polls and vote for JIM MARTIN. You and your loved ones don’t have to be Saxby Chambliss’s victims anymore.
I know you will get it done. Just like you did for President Obama.
God bless all of you
jacksmith – WORKING CLASS… 🙂
Perhaps I have missed it, but in every “news” broadcast I’ve heard and in every “news” report I’ve read, the “news” media seem to bending over backward to avoid mentioning just why there is a runoff.
That is, they seem they would rather cut off their tongues or fingers rather than mention that word “Libertarian.”
Considering the poor quality of the two old-party candidates, I would hope the LP candidate, Allen Buckley, would refrain from an endorsement.
I like the bio line in that op-ed: “James Wiseman, associate professor of mathematics at Agnes Scott College, studies the mathematics of voting and chaos theory.”
I don’t know what you are referring to. I have seen the tv news and newspapers in Georgia mention why a run off is taking place numerous times. For example I can count 5 times off the top of my head that in the past few days I have either seen on the TV news or read a newspaper story focusing on who if anybody Allen Buckley will endorse in the runoff.
Allen Buckley has got a ton of news coverage out of this.
The Daily Show recently did a piece on the recount in MN and the Georiga run-off and also failed to mention the third party candidates in either. I sent them a little email off about this mistake.
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/politicalinsider/index.html
interesting item the ajc had about Buckley on their website today