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REED: Democrats worry about effects if Reed is elected
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The organization’s history
of pushing decidedly right-
wing stances on a range of
social issues has some
Democrats wary that Reed, if
elected, could add momen
tum to a wave of conservative
social legislation the Georgia
General Assembly passed this
year.
“I do think the legislation
he would advocate is far more
extreme than what the state
needs,” said Yvonne Williams,
president of the Young-
Democrats.
Reed said as lieutenant
governor he would have more
to think about than just social
issues, reiterating his com
mitment to fiscal responsibili
ty and improving high school
dropout rates.
“I have the same values
and believe in the same
things, but I’ll be in a
different role,” Reed said
Wednesday.
After leaving the Christian
Coalition in 1997, Reed
opened a public relations
firm in Atlanta, Century
Strategies, that runs cam
paigns for candidates for
state and national offices.
At a College Republicans
meeting he spoke at
Wednesday night, students
praised Reed’s efforts as state
GOP chairman during the
2002 elections, when
Republicans put Saxby
Chambliss in the U.S. Senate,
Sonny Perdue in the gover
nor’s office and took control
of the state senate for the first
time since the Civil War.
University student Jeff
Butt met Reed while working
on his get-out-the-vote
campaign in 2002, knocking
on doors in Athens, Marietta
and Atlanta, urging conserva
tives to the polls on election
day.
“He was the one who
forged the mold,” said Butt, a
junior from Athens. “It was
FOUNDATION: State rep. advised
against signing memorandum
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Russ Willard, a spokesman
for the state attorney general,
did not return phone calls as
of press time Thursday to dis
cuss the legality of closing the
meeting.
The Board of Trustees
closed the meeting for two
hours and did not take a vote
regarding the Foundation’s
relationship with the
University.
The Board of Regents
ordered University President
Michael Adams to sever
ties with the Foundation
last week after the fundrais
ing body didn’t sign a
“memorandum of under
standing,” which details the
relationship between univer
sities, their foundations and
the regents.
Trustees at Wednesday’s
meeting said the Foundation
had received a letter from
House Majority Whip Barry
Fleming advising them not to
sign the agreement.
Fleming said Thursday he
wrote the letter after a resolu
tion for a study committee on
University System
Foundations passed the legis
lature, informing Chancellor
Thomas Meredith and the
foundations at the University,
Georgia Tech and the Medical
College of Georgia of the
action and advising them not
to sign the memorandum
until they could meet to
discuss the agreement.
“I asked them if they would
not enter into the disputed
agreement,” he said.
He said Georgia Tech and
the Medical College of
Georgia have not signed their
memorandums yet, saying
they have intentions to do so.
Fleming said he asked
Meredith to encourage the
Board of Regents not to take
drastic action before both
sides could work things out.
— Contributing:
Staff reports
Ga. Southern server hacked into
STATESBORO, Ga. —
Hackers broke into a Georgia
Southern University server
that contained thousands of
credit card and Social Security
numbers collected over more
than three years.
The Saturday breach
puts anyone who made a
purchase at the university
bookstores between Jan. 1,
2002, and April 25 of this year
at risk of identity theft or
unauthorized credit card
usage, the university said
Wednesday.
Included are those who
made purchases at the store’s
campus and stadium loca
tions, as well as on the Web
site. Also, GSU students who
received a bookstore credit
through their scholarship or
financial aid between fall 2003
and spring 2005 semesters are
at risk.
Rosemary Carter, Georgia
Southern spokeswoman,
would not elaborate on
specifics, including how the
hackers got into the store’s
system, but said the registra
tion, admission and athletic
ticket sites were not affected.
It is not certain how much
information was accessed.
“But we do know it’s a very
high number. That’s why we
want to cast a net as wide as
possible to let people know
and let them take the neces
sary steps to protect them
selves,” Carter said. “We don’t
know if anything has been
acquired, but we just can’t
wait.”
At the main university
bookstore Wednesday, stu
dents looking to sell or buy
textbooks were met with a
sign informing them only cash
and checks were being accept
ed because of the intrusion.
GSU student Gillian Harbin
said the breach concerned her,
but she will continue using the
store because there is no other
place to purchase her text
books.
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Some Democrats on cam
pus say Reed’s past as a high-
profile campaign adviser
shows a man willing to do
anything to win.
“He’s merciless; he’s made
a career of destroying peo
ple’s careers and people’s
lives,” said Mike Lynch,
former president of the Young
Democrats.
Charles Bullock, a
University political science
professor and expert on
Southern politics, said
Wednesday Reed “always had
a pragmatism to him” and
that he was often willing to
work for people not as ideo
logically pure in order to win.
In recent weeks, Reed’s
relationships have attracted
attention from media across
the country after Congress
opened an investigation into
his transactions with
Washington lobbyist Jack
Abramoff in a deal to shut
down a Texas Casino.
According to various
media reports, Abramoff
allegedly paid Reed’s firm mil
lions of dollars to run a public
campaign to close down a
Native American Casino in El
Paso, Texas. It was later dis
covered the money had come
from rival casinos, reports
stated.
While at the University,
Reed was a columnist for the
The Red & Black until he was
banned from writing after not
citing his sources in a column
about the movie “Gandhi.”
“It was a valuable learning
experience,” Reed said. “I
became a better person
because of it.”
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