When 10th Congressional District newbie Nancy Schaefer ran for mayor of Atlanta in 1993, guess who ran her campaign?
Tim Echols.
Echols also worked closely with Schaefer, the founder of the Christian nonprofit Family Concerns, when Echols founded Teenpact, a Christian leadership school.
For the past year, Echols has been Rep. Paul Broun’s campaign spokesman, which helps explain why he and his boss are being so nice to Schaefer.
“We wish her the best,” Echols said. “We have nothing negative to say.”
Schaefer has plenty of negative things to say about Broun, especially his medical marijuana and child pornography votes.
And therein lays the danger for Broun. Not only will he have to abandon Augusta to Barry Fleming and go up north to defend his turf in Schaefer’s state Senate district, he has defend his record, not just against an establishment candidate, but one who may be to the right of him. I didn’t think you could get more conservative than Broun – the man hangs out with the John Birch Society, for God’s sake! - but after looking at Schaefer’s old news clips and voting record, I’ve changed my mind.
It’s a shame he won’t attack her, if only because a mere Google search turns up so many “what the … ?” moments. Take, for example, her alliance with Scientologists against psychiatry. Let’s hope, for our own amusement, that Fleming picks up on this.
Meanwhile, Broun is busy burnishing his own conservative credentials, as if they weren’t already spit-shined to a glossy shade of deep red. On Monday, the enforcement-only group Americans for Better Immigration gave him an A+ on its congressional report cards (oddly, Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss, who border-control advocates chastised for their early support of the Bush-McCain-Kennedy comprehensive immigration reform, received A’s). Today, the Family Research Council and Focus on the Family named him a “True Blue Member of Congress” because he is a “champion of traditional values.”
Get ready for lots of talk about Mexicans, God, gays and fetuses. We’re going to party like it’s 1994.
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Re: It's a small world
Blake, Tim Echols knows everybody. If Fleming didn't live so far down in the southern tip of the district, Echols probably would have worked with him, too.
They must not home-school
They must not home-school their kids in Augusta.
Broun's "child pornography"
Broun's "child pornography" vote was a vote against more government control of the internet.
Today's article about more FBI abuse of citizen's right to privacy should really give pause to a true conservative about advocating more government intervention into our private affairs.
I wonder if Shaefer even begins to understand what the bill Broun voted against really proposed.
Yes, but ... Which do you
Yes, but ...
Which do you think will play better with rural voters: Paul Broun voted to allow sexual predators to violate your children through a technology that you don't completely understand, but your children do, and therefore vaguely frightens you to begin with? Or this was a bad bill that my colleagues passed without really looking at it, and Nancy Schaefer doesn't understand that this thing called the Internet you've probably heard of but don't know that much about is actually a libertarian utopia of freedom and I want to keep it that way?
At least he wasn't supporting the space cadets---
I'll have to get back to you on that, but my psychiatrist is giving my engrams a 20,000 mile check-up this afternoon.
Winders still hasn't recovered from his spas..., I mean, dancing episode?