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Martha Zoller: Let’s Get Her To Congress

Georgia’s 9th Congressional District runoff presents the two faces of the Republican Party and asks voters to choose.

On one hand is Doug Collins. Collins would fit right in with the Congressional Republicans who raised the debt ceiling on the promise of spending cuts and then weaseled out of the cuts. He’d fit right in with a GOP that gives lip to repealing Obamacare, but is actually too scared of picking a fight on defunding it.

Doug Collins was an inconsequential legislator in the Georgia General Assembly whose only question when asked by Republican Leaders to jump was “how high?” He supported the largest tax increase in Georgia history, the T-SPLOST, but, like Lee Anderson running in Georgia’s 12th Congressional District, lacked the testicular fortitude to actually vote for the tax increase himself. Instead, he sent it off to voters telling them the legislature would punish them if they didn’t vote to raise their own taxes.

This is the second time Collins did this. The first time was with trauma funding. Doug Collins is not afraid to be a big spender or a big taxer, but is too chicken to man up and take responsibility himself for the consequences of his policy choices.

Then there is Martha Zoller. Martha is supported by Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, various tea party groups, and me. She’s been a talk radio host in North Georgia who, like me, has been just as willing to take on Republicans as she has Democrats.

Doug Collins is beating the stew out of Martha, taking her words out of context, and distorting her record as a way to distract from his. I want you to support Martha Zoller because, unlike Doug Collins, we won’t ever have to worry about lobbying Martha to be with us once she gets to Congress.

The runoff election in Georgia is August 21st and Martha is seriously going to need our help. Make a donation as soon as you can.

COMMENTS

  • dekalbda

    How are those endorsements from you and other talk show hosts working out for the candidates in Georgia?

    As usual, your insults (in this case targeting a fine man named Doug Collins) are geared to have pop rather than to address any substance, and, of course, you offer no evidence supporting them.. They are just fire-and-run, radio-talk blather.

    If you knew Doug, you would know that he is both an effective legislator and a conservative’s conservative, but you were so much more interested in promoting a fellow talking head that you didn’t bother to get your facts straight. Then again, this has par for the course with you.

    Far from being a “inconsequential” legislator, Doug was the Governor’s Floor Leader and an officer on key legislative committees. In addition, he passed and shaped several important measures on issues ranging from budget-cutting to government reduction to public safety and to any of a number of topics important to Georgians.

    How do you expect anyone to believe your comments about Doug ibeing somehow at leadership’s beck and call when this same man stood up to an incumbent House speaker and paid the price for it? Like so many of your statements, this charge rings hollow.

    You are smart enough to understand that Doug didn’t support “the largest tax increase in Georgia history,” but you disregard the facts because they do not suit your endorsement.

    Doug was supported by the folks in the district who know him and who know North Georgia. You may think that talk-show host endorsements from the likes of Hannity, Palin, Cain and you mean something, but the good people of the new 9th District obviously disagree. Good for them.!

    Keep up the solid work!

  • dekalbda

    As
    usual, your insults (in this case targeting a man named Doug Collins) are
    geared to have pop rather than to address any substance, and, of course, you
    offer no evidence supporting them.. They
    are just fire-and-run, radio-talk blather.

    If
    you knew Doug, you would know that he is both an effective legislator and a
    conservative’s conservative, but you were so much more interested in promoting
    a fellow talking head that you didn’t bother to get your facts straight. Then again, this has par for the course with
    you.

    Far
    from being a “inconsequential”
    legislator, Doug was the Governor’s Floor Leader and an officer on key
    legislative committees. In addition, he
    passed and shaped several important measures on issues ranging from
    budget-cutting to government reduction to public safety and to any of a number
    of topics important to Georgians.

    How
    are we supposed to believe your comments about Doug, the same man who stood up
    to an incumbent House speaker and paid the price for it, is somehow also at
    leadership’s beck and call? This is the
    best you have?

    You
    are smart enough to understand that Doug didn’t support “the largest tax
    increase in Georgia history,” but you disregard the facts because they do
    not suit your endorsement.

    Doug
    was supported by the folks in the district who know him and who know North Georgia. You may think that talk-show host
    endorsements from the likes of Hannity, Palin, Cain and you mean something, but
    the good people of the new 9th District obviously disagree. Good for them!

    Keep
    up the solid work!