{"id":4296,"date":"2010-08-11T11:56:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T15:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=4296"},"modified":"2010-08-11T11:56:41","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T15:56:41","slug":"deal-just-wont-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/11\/deal-just-wont-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Deal just won&#8217;t do&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/georgia_elections_news\/2010\/08\/11\/breaking-news-handel-calls-deal-concedes-gop-nomination-for-governor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Handel calls Deal, concedes GOP nomination for governor<\/a><br \/> Atlanta Journal Constitution<\/strong><br \/> by Aaron Gould Sheinin<br \/> August 11, 2010<br \/> 11:07 AM<\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">Yesterday, Karen Handel called Nathan Deal a &ldquo;corrupt relic of  Washington.&rdquo; Today, however, Handel said she is endorsing him as the GOP  nominee for governor. In a statement just released from the Handel campaign, she said she  called Deal this morning to concede the nomination.The November ballot  is now set. Deal will represent the GOP and face Democrat Roy Barnes and  Libertarian John Monds.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Deal spokesman Brian Robinson said that U.S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, R-Ga., coordinated the phone call between Handel and Deal. &ldquo;They had a very good talk,&rdquo; Robinson said. &ldquo;Nathan congratulated her  on a great campaign. She told him that she would not ask for a recount  and that she would be on board to help the party to victory in  November.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Deal, Robinson said, &ldquo;thanked her for her graciousness and said he  looked forward to meeting with her in person.We thank her for putting  the party first and saving us a lot of heartache. She has shown that she  is putting Georgia first and we are greatly appreciative of her  selflessness in this situation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Earlier Wednesday, Deal appeared at a GOP &ldquo;unity breakfast&rdquo; in   Buckhead, but Handel did not. But her statement this morning is clearly   aimed at healing a party battered by months of a tough primary campaign   and a brutal three-week runoff. Barnes, meanwhile, cruised to victory   over six other opponents in the Democratic primary. While other   Democrats, particularly House Minority Leader DuBose Porter, D-Dublin,   took their shots at Barnes, that contest never reached the level of   contention the GOP race.<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">AJC photographer John Spink said the room at the GOP breakfast was  packed with at least 200 people. The GOP faithful warned that Barnes,  the Democrat who lost to Sonny Perdue eight years ago,  has wasted no  time in launching an ad campaign against Republicans&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong><font color=\"#200020\">Good News:<\/font><\/strong> Sarah Palin is not bullet-proof.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong><font color=\"#200020\">B<\/font><\/strong><strong><font color=\"#200020\">ad News: <\/font><\/strong>Nathan Deal both intellectually and morally challenged. <\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">I didn&#8217;t see that coming. Karen Handel was right yesterday, Nathan Deal is a &ldquo;corrupt relic of  Washington&rdquo; [though I suspect he was corrupt before he ever went to Washington]. The Democratic candidate, Roy Barnes, was defeated for a second term in 2002 for a variety of reasons &#8211; changing the State Flag being a big factor. Barnes also appointed his predecessor, <strong>Zell Miller<\/strong> [&quot;Zell from Hell&quot;], to the Senate to fill an empty seat [after Senator Paul Coverdale died]. Barnes is a good guy.<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">Nathan Deal just won&#8217;t do&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Handel calls Deal, concedes GOP nomination for governor Atlanta Journal Constitution by Aaron Gould Sheinin August 11, 2010 11:07 AM Yesterday, Karen Handel called Nathan Deal a &ldquo;corrupt relic of Washington.&rdquo; Today, however, Handel said she is endorsing him as the GOP nominee for governor. In a statement just released from the Handel campaign, she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}