Laura Leslie Wants Your Feedback

Look at the Lt Governors race, where there is a battle over policy. Why? Because you have 4 people coming from 4 different directions, and there are some very innovative ideas being thrown around about what this state should do and what a campaign should look like.

The Governor's race is just an old fashioned slug match with two people who are ultimately very similar on many issues. Obviously there are some big policy differences, but I dont see enough innovation by either one to really warrant a policy debate. Absent a policy debate what else are they going to talk about besides the little things?

If we want to stop the nonsense over the resumes lets encourage Moore and Perdue to come up with some new ideas. Having met both of them and knowing their records, I know both could come up with some pretty amazing, and detailed, ideas for where this state should go if they wanted to.

Then the only question is, would the media cover it? One can ony hope our state's media is up to the challenge that the national media is not.

"Keep the Faith"

I like Laura Leslie and her blog, and I also appreciate Anglico's point. This matter of having readers weigh in on who is right/wrong as though the number of opinions on one side or the other is meaningful in these informal polls, is reminiscent of the way the news seems to be "reported" these days. And I guess we can all readily imagine the respective staffs for Perdue and Moore bombarding the Tavern with their "votes" on who fudged worse.

I think it is clear that Laura is making fun of the tit-for-tat the Perdue and Moore campaigns are engaged in, but in defense of the media who are reporting the "she stretched this story; he embellished that one" exchanges, I *do* think it matters whether a candidate treats his/her constituents to little white lies and wee fabrication. I don't like it.

And the "they all do it" school of rationalizing these stupid distortions doesn't work for me, either. What I do accept is that interns, volunteers and the like may get carried away, may fail to recognize the folly of these embellishments, and are perhaps too immature or inexperienced to appreciate that someone like me might attach significance to the fact that a resume is padded. However, I think the candidate has to be held accountable for it, just as he or she should be nailed when his or her staff has not bothered to provide the information required on donor disclosure forms.

So I'm going to answer Laura's question -- I think Perdue has more to answer for at this point. I don't work for Moore's campaign, but I do admit to a bit of bias based purely on what little I know about Perdue against what little I know of Moore. He hasn't offended me quite as much -- yet.

Finally, it really bugs me when a person who calls herself an "education" candidate sends out communications that ought to have been proofed and rewritten by someone with an appreciation for grammar and composition.

Brunette <~~~~mildly irritated

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing
-Edmund Burke

t's been an interesting few days around here. We saw some high drama about party loyalty, an excellent discussion among lieutenant governor candidates about actual issues, and the beginnings of a dust-up between two of those candidates regarding what constitutes "good" campaigning.* A

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How's the petition drive going? Will you be on the ballot next year?

owes me a keyboard. :-D