Runoff Results

So I am a few weeks late to this (hey I was abroad, cut my some slack...and for those of you wondering who is the debonair individual behind VJforS, there was more than one journalist from Atlanta deployed overseas during the first few weeks of August. Just saying, the most obvious choice may [or may not] be the best choice) but...

What one can take away from the primary runoff is that Democrats really fucking hate Vernon. I mean, damn Veej, you lost pretty bad I mean, those numbers are close to what Greg Hecht pulled. Damn. Better luck next time, oh wait, there isn't a next time. Sucks.

But yeah, runoffs are comprised, pretty much, of only activists. You know, Snuggles, the group you once lovingly called "losers". You know, those people you would need to win an election. Oh well. They fucking hate you. Buh bye.

The Good Ole Days

Not happening.

Man I can't stand Veej. I don't know what is greater; my schadenfreude for Veej or my despising of Veej.

Seriously FEC

Seriously FEC, what the fuck is taking so damned long?

Rule against Snuggles already.

Vernon Jones: In Their Words

This will now be a recurring thing.

From Blake Aued:

Vernon Jones hates you

I hate to keep harping on this, but it really ticks me off when candidates think your votes are not worth courting. Vernon Jones has never shown his face in the heavily African-American, even more heavily Democratic bastion of Athens and skipped the two debates held here.

According to the AJC:

“Candidates will get to ask each other a question in the 1-hour debate that begins at 5 p.m. (Sunday) and will be carried live on Fox 5 and simulcast on its website.

“DeKalb CEO Vernon Jones, former state lawmaker Jim Martin, former WSB-TV reporter Dale Cardwell, Atlanta businessman Rand Knight and retired businessman Josh Lanier of Statesboro all plan to attend.”

Funny how Mr. Jones doesn’t have a scheduling conflict when he gets to be on the TV.

Here’s a prediction: Martin asks Jones if he took a wrong turn looking for the GOP debate

Crime in Dekalb

It is appalling and Vernon's fault.

"Fast forward two years where the current DeKalb Police Department is in complete disarray, crime is up and the number of police officers is way down with no quick fix in sight. Money Magazine is again trashing Dunwoody by saying that our personal crime stats are 6 times worse then the other places on the survey and 3 times worse than the average property crime statistics. This again is probably based on the entire unincorporated crime statistics which if accurate is just another reason for all the citizens of DeKalb to demand better from this Administration then they are currently receiving.

Then again, the demands of the citizens are ignored every day in this administration. I have witnessed citizens lining up to speak at the County Commission meetings asking for improvements to the police department, a Grand Jury has made recommendations for change and even the police officers themselves are revolting by airing their concerns over department mismanagement in public; yet Vernon Jones and the County Commissioners take no immediate action to correct the situation.

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In 2007, DeKalb County set a new homicide record of 99 murders yet with it being less than half way through 2008, the DeKalb Officers site reports that the County is again on a record pace with already 59 homicides so far this year. That statistic isn't publicized anywhere officially because if it were someone might ask..."

Everything Vernon is Not

Vernon Jones: In Their Words

From the Black Agenda Report:

Quite apart from his eagerness to ride to Congress on religious intolerance, the political career of Vernon Jones is more than a little odd. A Black Democrat in roughly the same suburban Atlanta district that elected Cynthia McKinney to six terms in Congress, Jones admits voting for Bush in 2000 and 2004 and publicly flirted with switching to the Republican party in 2002 and 2003. The biggest contributors to his current political campaign are the family, employees and lawyers of Mel "you pay a little more, you get a little more" Sembler, a former chief fundraiser for the 2000 Republican National Committee. Sembler is a real estate developer with billions of dollars in projects ranging from big box retail stores to office towers and luxury condos in Dekalb County GA, where Vernon Jones is the county CEO.

Most observers agree that Vernon Jones is only pretending to run a doomed and desultory statewide campaign for the Democratic nomination against Georgia's odious Saxby Chambliss. From his traveling to DC to meet with Chambliss on the eve of his announcement to his posturing as a self-described conservative Democrat, to his support of current and future wars abroad and questionable police practices at home, and his endorsement of the regressive and harebrained "Fair Tax," Jones' stands on the issues place him far to the right of Democratic voters, let alone Black ones in Georgia or anyplace else. That he has nonetheless managed to carve out a political career as a nominal Democrat at all speaks to the hollowness of Democratic party politics, to its distance from the lives and concerns of Georgia Democrats, most of whom are African American."

As they say, if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck and looks like a duck, the odds are that you are not dealing with a pony.