Barry Fleming has one more problem.

Rep. Paul Broun and Fleming both filed their second-quarter FEC reports today, 12 days early. Broun out-raised Fleming almost two-to-one, but Fleming has $344,000 on hand compared to Broun’s $202,000. Still, that’s great news for the Team Broun.

It’s bad news for Democrat Bobby Saxon, though, whose report is not online yet. Team Saxon had hoped that, assuming Broun won, he’d be essentially bankrupted by the primary, putting them on more or less even footing. But Broun is learning how to raise money like an incumbent.

Peach Pundit has video of the Atlanta Press Club debate. You’ve probably heard most of it before. Fleming did haul out the bankruptcy/tax lien angle, which I expected him to do Monday in Athens but he did not.

Barry Fleming implies that Paul Broun is in favor of child molestation. Broun responds by calling Fleming something even worse – a Democrat.

Broun issued a response today to Fleming’s TV ad portraying Broun as soft on child molesters. In it, Broun points out that Fleming has worked for two Democratic congressmen, and says his primary challenge is playing into the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (who’s replaced Hillary Clinton as Republicans’ ur-bitch) by diverting funds from other tight races.

So for the past couple of weeks, our congressman Paul Broun has been sending out letters to his constituents spouting something that he is supporting or not supporting or whatever. I will admit I rarely get past the first line because I just know it’s going to be something I probably disagree with and I don’t see the reason to get aggravated while I am trying to relax at home. So those letters usually end up in the shredder along with the rest of my junk mail.

But maybe I am just bitter because NOT ONE of these letters my congressman has sent was actually addressed to me. They have come to “Annmarie Miani” or “Ann Miani.” I personally don’t know who these women are, but I wish they would stop using my street address because I get a lot of credit card offers for them, too.

But seriously, who else out there is sick of Broun’s constant stream of form letters basically saying “LOOK AT ME I AM DOING SOMETHING!!”

It only took him eight months, but U.S. Rep. Paul Broun got his first piece of legislation passed today. House Resolution 994 declares March 1 to be National Glanzmann’s Thrombasthenia Awareness Day.

“Glanzmann’s Thrombasthenia is a genetic blood disorder that presents a variety of symptoms that often causes it to be misdiagnosed. People suffering from this incurable disorder often suffer from life-threatening problems with uncontrollable bleeding and severe, painful bruising. In addition to raising awareness about this disorder, Broun’s resolution also commemorates the work being undertaken by Augusta’s Glanzmann’s Thrombasthenia Research Foundation, which was founded by Helen P. Smith in 2001.

Paul Broun is a lock to win a second term in Congress, according to a new poll.

The poll was commissioned by Broun’s campaign and has a rather high margin of error of 5 percent, so take it with a grain of salt. But it's not the Worst ... Poll ... in the Woooorld. It was done by the Tarrance Group, a very reputable firm that polled for Charlie Norwood, Jim Whitehead and Max Burns, and its results are, frankly, shocking.

The poll of 400 10th District residents, conducted last Tuesday and Wednesday, shows Broun with 71 percent support, dominating GOP opponents Nancy Schaefer and Barry Fleming, who each polled 11 percent. Seven percent were undecided.

“I think we can pull away,” Broun said Tuesday at a press conference in Athens.

Among the highlights:

• Broun has 94 percent name recognition.

• 75 percent approve of his performance and 10 percent disapprove

I didn’t really want to print this story about Athens-Clarke County lifting part of its outdoor watering ban. I wanted to e-mail it y’all instead.

Mayor Heidi Davison said something interesting in passing during last Tuesday’s commission meeting. She said she wanted to lift the total ban ASAP, and said the Upper Oconee Basin Water Authority – which I hate for its ungodly acronym – should either call a meeting to ease up or vote by e-mail.

Vote by e-mail? From a woman who thinks her work-related e-mails are off limits to the public, that’s scary stuff.

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.”

The AJS’s Jim Galloway says state Sen. Nancy Schaefer might jump into the 10th Congressional District race.

Galloway notes that Schaefer, R-Turnerville, represents the northern end of the district, where Rep. Paul Broun drew much of his support in last year’s runoff. Broun is from Athens, in the center of the district, and state Rep. Barry Fleming is from Harlem, near Augusta, on the southern end.

She’s also a Christian conservative, so she could take some of those votes away from Broun as well. And she’s a senator, so it could turn into yet another Senate vs. House battle, since Fleming already has the support of about half the House Republican Caucus.

Everybody and their mother wrote a story about the Democratic superdelegates over the past few weeks, and since journalists, especially editors, unfortunately have a pack mentality, I wrote one, too.

My forum commenters seem far less mentally unhinged than usual on this one. The general sense, more or less rationally laid out, is that the superdelegates ought to vote for whoever wins the popular vote (that means you, Michael Thurmond).

Check out the college car tag bill dropped in the state legislature last week and see who’s name is first on the list of sponsors.

Hint: It’s Barry Fleming’s.

Where I’m from, we call this pandering. It’s the anti-“bomb the university” quip. Fleming wants more than 10 percent of the vote in Clarke County, and he thinks leading the charge against Gator car tags will do it for him.

As an Ole Miss graduate – where we might not win many games, but we ain’t never lost a party – I’m offended that Fleming won’t let me display my school spirit. On the other hand, the Rebels don’t have too much to be proud of these days, so maybe he’s doing me a favor by keeping me from making an ass out of myself.

Thanks, Barry.

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