Friday, October 29, 2004
Help Secure A Win For Calder Clay
Rufus Montgomery: Your vote counts!
VICTORY IS NEAR!
With your help, George W. Bush will be re-elected... Johnny Isakson will go to the U.S. Senate...
And Calder Clay will be elected to the U.S. House!
Republicans in our community must come together at the end of this race and push each other across the finish line to victory. Our local candidates will be successful as well if we get the Republican vote out.
Your efforts will mean the difference between winning and losing.
Volunteers are welcome for the final weekend push to walk door to door and make phone calls in all 31 counties of the 3rd Congressional District for our next congressman, Calder Clay.
It can mean the difference between winning and losing on November 2.
Consider this email an action alert. Consider this email that extra help that we need right now. Consider this email a wake up call that if we don't get our vote out, the idea of a President John Kerry could become a reality? There truly is so much more work that needs to be completed. We look forward to seeing you.
Join us through Election Day as we make calls to our friends and neighbors. We'll keep walking door-to-door and waving signs until the polls close on Tuesday. Call us at (478) 923-2429 for details about where you can help!
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Related Hot Topic:GOP Leaders Blitz Through Midstate
Perdue, Isakson, Clay among politicians, candidates participating in bus tour
The Macon Telegraph - Don Schanche Jr.
Republican leaders blitzed through Middle Georgia on Wednesday on a 36-city bus tour to tout their candidates in Tuesday's election and stir up supporters to go to the polls.
Gov. Sonny Perdue, U.S. Rep. Johnny Isakson and congressional candidates Calder Clay and Lynn Westmoreland were on hand for the Milledgeville-Macon leg.
They gave a pep talk to about 150 supporters outside the old courthouse in Milledgeville and later mingled with party officials and volunteers outside Fincher's Barbecue on Houston Avenue in Macon.
Perdue said he believes his party has a good chance next week to take control of the state House, as it now controls the Senate.
"I feel we'll be very competitive," he said. "I feel there's a good chance there could be an absolute (Republican) majority on election night in the House of Representatives for the first time."
Isakson, meanwhile, said he expects the GOP will display the kind of well-organized get-out-the-vote effort that helped elect Perdue in 2002.
"We got a good practice run in July (for the primary election)" he said. "That has done nothing but expand since the primary was over with."
VICTORY IS NEAR!
With your help, George W. Bush will be re-elected... Johnny Isakson will go to the U.S. Senate...
And Calder Clay will be elected to the U.S. House!
Republicans in our community must come together at the end of this race and push each other across the finish line to victory. Our local candidates will be successful as well if we get the Republican vote out.
Your efforts will mean the difference between winning and losing.
Volunteers are welcome for the final weekend push to walk door to door and make phone calls in all 31 counties of the 3rd Congressional District for our next congressman, Calder Clay.
It can mean the difference between winning and losing on November 2.
Consider this email an action alert. Consider this email that extra help that we need right now. Consider this email a wake up call that if we don't get our vote out, the idea of a President John Kerry could become a reality? There truly is so much more work that needs to be completed. We look forward to seeing you.
Join us through Election Day as we make calls to our friends and neighbors. We'll keep walking door-to-door and waving signs until the polls close on Tuesday. Call us at (478) 923-2429 for details about where you can help!
View Latest Ad:
Calder on the Issues
New! Posted 10/28/2004
Windows Media - View
Related Hot Topic:GOP Leaders Blitz Through Midstate
Perdue, Isakson, Clay among politicians, candidates participating in bus tour
The Macon Telegraph - Don Schanche Jr.
Republican leaders blitzed through Middle Georgia on Wednesday on a 36-city bus tour to tout their candidates in Tuesday's election and stir up supporters to go to the polls.
Gov. Sonny Perdue, U.S. Rep. Johnny Isakson and congressional candidates Calder Clay and Lynn Westmoreland were on hand for the Milledgeville-Macon leg.
They gave a pep talk to about 150 supporters outside the old courthouse in Milledgeville and later mingled with party officials and volunteers outside Fincher's Barbecue on Houston Avenue in Macon.
Perdue said he believes his party has a good chance next week to take control of the state House, as it now controls the Senate.
"I feel we'll be very competitive," he said. "I feel there's a good chance there could be an absolute (Republican) majority on election night in the House of Representatives for the first time."
Isakson, meanwhile, said he expects the GOP will display the kind of well-organized get-out-the-vote effort that helped elect Perdue in 2002.
"We got a good practice run in July (for the primary election)" he said. "That has done nothing but expand since the primary was over with."
Monday, October 18, 2004
Clay: Marshall Missed Key Votes
ATLANTA - U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall, D-Ga., and Republican Calder Clay compressed an entire campaign's worth of sniping into a debate that lasted little less than a half-hour Sunday night.
Macon Telegraph, Andy Peters
Marshall, Clay debate as heated as campaigns
During the debate broadcast on Georgia Public Television, Clay repeated the accusation that Marshall, the first-term incumbent congressman from the 3rd District, missed key votes in Congress and doesn't reflect the values of a majority of Middle Georgians.
The former Bibb County commissioner also asked Marshall who he was supporting for president - George Bush or John Kerry - but Marshall declined to answer.
Much of the debate centered on Clay's accusation that Marshall missed a key vote related to legislation to reduce frivolous lawsuits.
Clay said Marshall skipped the vote because of the campaign donations he's received from the legal profession. He previously had said Marshall was AWOL - the military term for absent without leave - because he missed that vote.
"I'm a dues-paying member of the Air Force Association," Clay said. "I find it difficult to understand why you would choose to miss that vote. I know you're supported by trial lawyers."
The two candidates also disagreed on whether Marshall had fulfilled a campaign pledge to help rural hospitals.
Marshall said he had made good on that promise, because he'd persuaded federal officials to give rural hospitals better access to the Indigent Care Trust Fund.
But Clay said Marshall's vote against a bill to limit frivolous lawsuits makes it much more difficult for rural hospitals to stay open because of the higher medical costs associated with medical-malpractice lawsuits.
"We will work to protect the sanctity of marriage," Clay said. "I believe life begins at conception. I will protect our Second Amendment rights."
Sunday's debate may be the only televised debate between Marshall and Clay accessible to the entire 3rd District.
Calder For Congress - Press Release
Marshall Not Able To Account For Whereabouts During Missed Votes
Says He Will Disclose Why He Skipped the Votes and Where He Was.
MACON, GA - Republican candidate for Congress Calder Clay debated with Democrat Jim Marshall tonight at an event sponsored by Georgia Public Broadcasting.
When asked why he missed two critical votes in the Armed Services Committee this year, Jim Marshall said he did not know and that he would follow up to let people know where he was and why he failed to vote on those two important measures.
Clay asked Marshall the following question:
Unfortunately, some members of Congress have chosen to inject politics directly into the war on terror - using the situations at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay to try and score political points against the President.
On two occasions, June 14 and July 15 of this year, important resolutions were brought before the House Armed Services Committee to do just that.
Mr. Marshall, you said "I make sure that I get up to speed on all legislation pending before my committees." However, you chose to skip those two very partisan votes on the War on Terror. Why did you skip them and where were you?
NOTE: There have been fewer than 20 votes in the Armed Services Committee during all of 2004.
Macon Telegraph, Andy Peters
Marshall, Clay debate as heated as campaigns
During the debate broadcast on Georgia Public Television, Clay repeated the accusation that Marshall, the first-term incumbent congressman from the 3rd District, missed key votes in Congress and doesn't reflect the values of a majority of Middle Georgians.
The former Bibb County commissioner also asked Marshall who he was supporting for president - George Bush or John Kerry - but Marshall declined to answer.
Much of the debate centered on Clay's accusation that Marshall missed a key vote related to legislation to reduce frivolous lawsuits.
Clay said Marshall skipped the vote because of the campaign donations he's received from the legal profession. He previously had said Marshall was AWOL - the military term for absent without leave - because he missed that vote.
"I'm a dues-paying member of the Air Force Association," Clay said. "I find it difficult to understand why you would choose to miss that vote. I know you're supported by trial lawyers."
The two candidates also disagreed on whether Marshall had fulfilled a campaign pledge to help rural hospitals.
Marshall said he had made good on that promise, because he'd persuaded federal officials to give rural hospitals better access to the Indigent Care Trust Fund.
But Clay said Marshall's vote against a bill to limit frivolous lawsuits makes it much more difficult for rural hospitals to stay open because of the higher medical costs associated with medical-malpractice lawsuits.
"We will work to protect the sanctity of marriage," Clay said. "I believe life begins at conception. I will protect our Second Amendment rights."
Sunday's debate may be the only televised debate between Marshall and Clay accessible to the entire 3rd District.
Calder For Congress - Press Release
Marshall Not Able To Account For Whereabouts During Missed Votes
Says He Will Disclose Why He Skipped the Votes and Where He Was.
MACON, GA - Republican candidate for Congress Calder Clay debated with Democrat Jim Marshall tonight at an event sponsored by Georgia Public Broadcasting.
When asked why he missed two critical votes in the Armed Services Committee this year, Jim Marshall said he did not know and that he would follow up to let people know where he was and why he failed to vote on those two important measures.
Clay asked Marshall the following question:
Unfortunately, some members of Congress have chosen to inject politics directly into the war on terror - using the situations at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay to try and score political points against the President.
On two occasions, June 14 and July 15 of this year, important resolutions were brought before the House Armed Services Committee to do just that.
Mr. Marshall, you said "I make sure that I get up to speed on all legislation pending before my committees." However, you chose to skip those two very partisan votes on the War on Terror. Why did you skip them and where were you?
NOTE: There have been fewer than 20 votes in the Armed Services Committee during all of 2004.
Wednesday, October 06, 2004
Giuliani Stumps For Isakson, Clay In Macon
Macon, Ga (Macon Telegraph) Maggie Large:
On a Tuesday visit to campaign for U.S. Senate candidate Johnny Isakson, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani took aim at prominent Democrats like Sens. John Kerry and Giuliani nemesis Hillary Clinton.
Absent was any mention by name of Isakson's Democratic opponent, Rep. Denise Majette. Instead, most of Giuliani's talk focused on the presidential race, with brief mentions of the importance of electing fellow Republicans Isakson and Calder Clay, candidate for the 3rd Congressional District seat.
(See Photo - Giuliani, Calder and Isakson)
Giuliani characterized himself as a moderate Republican and said The New York Times considered him one of the most conservative mayors the city has ever had.
"I am not in lockstep with anybody. Nobody is in lockstep with me," Giuliani said.
When introducing Giuliani at a Mercer University luncheon, Isakson acknowledged that the presidential election is the most important race this year.
Giuliani stuck to two major themes during his talk: the war on terrorism and tax reform, calling them the most important issues in the upcoming election.
He scolded European leaders for allowing terrorism to flourish and defended the president's new doctrine of pre-emptive strikes.
"If President Bush is re-elected, we will continue the war on terrorism," Giuliani said. "We're not going to back off because of some really bad days. War is terrible and is filled with bad days. Young men die who really shouldn't die."
Giuliani praised Bush's steadfastness and his prosecution of the war in Iraq but stopped short of directly linking Saddam Hussein's regime with the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that killed 3,000. Giuliani received widespread praise for his leadership following the terrorist attacks on New York.
"Saddam Hussein was one of the pillars of world terrorism," Giuliani said. "He used weapons of mass destruction against his own people, invaded another country and defied U.N. weapons inspectors for 10 years."
To chuckles from the Republican crowd, he mocked Kerry for asking in last week's presidential debate for a "global test" to go to war.
"Maybe the global test is to go to (President Jacques) Chirac in France and ask him for permission," Giuliani said.
On a Tuesday visit to campaign for U.S. Senate candidate Johnny Isakson, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani took aim at prominent Democrats like Sens. John Kerry and Giuliani nemesis Hillary Clinton.
Absent was any mention by name of Isakson's Democratic opponent, Rep. Denise Majette. Instead, most of Giuliani's talk focused on the presidential race, with brief mentions of the importance of electing fellow Republicans Isakson and Calder Clay, candidate for the 3rd Congressional District seat.
(See Photo - Giuliani, Calder and Isakson)
Giuliani characterized himself as a moderate Republican and said The New York Times considered him one of the most conservative mayors the city has ever had.
"I am not in lockstep with anybody. Nobody is in lockstep with me," Giuliani said.
When introducing Giuliani at a Mercer University luncheon, Isakson acknowledged that the presidential election is the most important race this year.
Giuliani stuck to two major themes during his talk: the war on terrorism and tax reform, calling them the most important issues in the upcoming election.
He scolded European leaders for allowing terrorism to flourish and defended the president's new doctrine of pre-emptive strikes.
"If President Bush is re-elected, we will continue the war on terrorism," Giuliani said. "We're not going to back off because of some really bad days. War is terrible and is filled with bad days. Young men die who really shouldn't die."
Giuliani praised Bush's steadfastness and his prosecution of the war in Iraq but stopped short of directly linking Saddam Hussein's regime with the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that killed 3,000. Giuliani received widespread praise for his leadership following the terrorist attacks on New York.
"Saddam Hussein was one of the pillars of world terrorism," Giuliani said. "He used weapons of mass destruction against his own people, invaded another country and defied U.N. weapons inspectors for 10 years."
To chuckles from the Republican crowd, he mocked Kerry for asking in last week's presidential debate for a "global test" to go to war.
"Maybe the global test is to go to (President Jacques) Chirac in France and ask him for permission," Giuliani said.
