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Perdue maintains
lead over Taylor
ATLANTA (MNS) - Sonny
Perdue’s re-election band
wagon may have hit a speed
bump, according to the lat
est statewide poll.
An Insider Advantage sur
vey released Monday said
the Republican incumbent
has a 20-percentage-point
lead over Democratic Lt.
Gov. Mark Taylor.
But the governor’s back
ing slipped six points
compared to an earlier
Insider Advantage poll. And
at 48 percent, it’s less than
the 50 percent he needs to
avoid a runoff.
Meanwhile the undecided
bloc has almost doubled -
from 8 to 15 percent - while
Libertarian Garrett Hayes
has 9 percent.
Poll director Matt Towery
attributed the Perdue dip to
a Taylor TV ad blitz slam
ming Perdue for his contro
versial Florida land deal and
tax break.
“Taylor’s strategy of bring
ing the governor down is
working,” Towery said.
But he added that Taylor’s
support, which also slipped
two percentage points - to
28 percent - remains weak.
Merle Black, a professor
of political science at Emory
University, agreed.
“It still looks pretty bad
for Taylor,” Black said.
And many undecided vot
ers likely will end up not
going to the polls, which
would make it easier for
Perdue to crash the 50 per
cent barrier, he said.
Perdue spokesman Derrick
Dickey said all recent polls
show the governor up
by at least 20 points and
that’s why Taylor’s resort
ing to “desperate, negative
attacks.”
Taylor spokesman Rick
Dent had no comment on
the poll.
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Arson suspected in
Henry office fire
ATLANTA (AP) - Arson
is suspected in a fire that
did heavy damage to a pro
bation office early Tuesday
in McDonough, authorities
said.
The fire broke out shortly
before 2 a.m. in the single
story, temporary building
at the courthouse complex.
No injuries were reported.
Firefighters quickly doused
the flames.
Steve Morgan, a
McDonough fire investigator,
said someone used a brick to
break a window, then set fire
to papers on a desk.
“It looks like they target
ed the probation building,”
Morgan said. “We do have
court today, and it deals with
probationers, but (the fire)
will not stop court from hap
pening.”
Morgan said probation
files were not damaged and
computers are backed up
daily to a main server in a
different building.
“Maybe someone thought
they would do damage and
wouldn’t have to go to court
today, or maybe evidence
would be destroyed and
their name wouldn’t exist
anymore,” Morgan said.
He said a reward would be
offered for information lead
ing to an arson arrest.
Escape unnoticed
until capture
AUGUSTA (MNS) - A
federal inmate who fled the
Lincoln County jail Sunday
was free more than half a
day before officials got a call
telling them he was in cus
tody in Columbia County.
Terry Carter Jr., 22, of
Augusta, was able to climb
over a security fence and
escape the jail undetected
at about 12:30 p.m., accord
ing to a news release from
the Lincoln County Sheriff’s
Office.
“There apparently was a
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breakdown somewhere with
him being gone that long,”
said Sheriff Gerald Lawson.
His department learned
that Carter was missing
at about 2:40 a.m. Monday
when Columbia County dep
uties called, the sheriff said.
Columbia County sher
iffs Capt. Steve Morris said
Carter was seen at about 9
p.m. at the TPS convenience
store at Washington Road
and William Few Parkway,
where he stayed about four
hours.
The store clerk called police
at about 1 a.m. Monday after
an anonymous phone call
warned her the man was an
escaped inmate, according to
a Columbia County sheriff s
incident report.
When deputies arrived,
they saw Carter run into
nearby woods. He was later
found by tracking dogs about
1,000 feet from the store.
Lawyers ask judge
for new letters
ATLANTA (AP) - Lawyers
opposing Georgia’s photo ID
law asked a judge Monday to
hold the state in contempt
for misinforming more than
200,000 voters in a mass
mailing that was sent after
a court order blocked the
law’s enforcement for the
November general election.
Attorneys are also asking
the judge to force the state
to send new letters to those
voters.
In all, the State election
board mailed more than
300,000 letters to' registered
voters, telling them they
may need to show either a
free Georgia voter identifica
tion card or one of six forms
of photo ID to vote in person.
The letter also reminded vot
ers they could vote absentee
without a photo ID.
Originally, State Election
Board Vice Chair Claud
“Tex” Mclver said the agen
cy mailed 20,000 of those
letters after the Sept. 19 rul-
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ing which struck down the
photo ID requirement.
It later turned out that
the number was closer to
200,000.
Mclver said he plans to
ask at an election board spe
cial meeting scheduled for
Tuesday afternoon why he
was given the wrong number,
but that he stands by a deci
sion to mail letters after the
judge’s order. At Tuesday’s
meeting, Mclver said he
will, also call for new pub
lic service announcements
on radio and television and
for the Secretary of State’s
Office to fund a postcard
mailing to all 305,000 reg
istered voters who received
the original letter about the
photo ID law.
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Senate district lawsuit
hangs on three lines in Ga.
By GREG BLUESTEIN
Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA - The legal
debate over the way
Georgia’s legislative seats
are redrawn boils down to
three sentences in the state’s
constitution.
The first two are sim
ple enough, giving the
Legislature the power to
overhaul the districts and
requiring that each be con
tiguous.
It’s the third line, though,
that landed lawyers in the
Georgia Supreme Court
on Monday to argue over a
Republican bid to split the
Democratic stronghold of
Athens in half.
Emmet Bondurant, the
lawyer for the plaintiffs told
the state’s top court that the
line - which gives lawmak
ers the power to reapportion
districts “as necessary” after
each Census - means the
Legislature cannot redraw
the map whenever it wants
without a specific reason.
And that includes “politi
cal expediency,” he said.
“This court ought to be
concerned with the demo
cratic process and how it
works,” he said.
State lawyer Dennis Dunn
warned the high court it
should not “wade into the
quagmire of redistricting”
but rather leave it to the
legislative branch.
“This is not a time or place
for disgruntled citizens to
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come to court and get a dif
ferent political decision than
an elected body of legisla
tors,” he said, adding that
the plaintiffs’ only argument
lies in Bondurant’s “fertile
imagination.”
The redrawing - the only
major map change by the
Legislature this year - came
after Democratic state Rep.
Jane Kidd announced plans
to seek the seat.
Kidd, who is facing
Republican Bill Cowsert for
the Senate seat, was a plain
tiff in a federal suit which
has been thrown out. But
the state case, which was
filed by voters in the new
district, is still alive.
Republicans in the
Legislature said the changes
to the map were made in
response to a five-year-old
request by commissioners in
Madison County, who want
ed their county to be entirely
in one Senate district.
The district that Kidd is
seeking now includes all
of Republican-dominated
Oconee County, about half
of Athens and part of Walton
County.
Two other districts were
also tinkered with under the
plan.
The court’s decision is
unlikely to affect the Nov. 7
election.
If the court rules in favor
of the plaintiffs, though, it
would likely require special
elections in the three dis
tricts.
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