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ITS STILL LOCAL
The old Boston Irishman, Tip O'Neill, had it
right when he said, "All politics is local." That
is really the key to the outcome of last week's
special election in the 10th Congressional
District, where Northeast Georgia voters sent Jim
Whitehead and Paul Broun to a runoff election
on July 17. The race to replace the late Charlie
Norwood had attracted some attention on the
national level because .it was the first congres
sional election to be held since last November,
when Democrats ousted Republicans from control
of the House and Senate. Analysts wondered if
public discontent at the national level with the
Iraq War would have any impact on voters in this
very conservative, heavily Republican district.
Whitehead and Broun both believed
that it wouldn't. They said from day
one that concerns about the influx
of immigrants into Georgia were
more important to the district
than George Bush's bunglings in
the Fertile Crescent. Whitehead in
particular caught a lot of grief for
saying that the Iraq War was not a
"big thing," but he turned out to
be largely correct in his assessment.
The one person who emphasized the
withdrawal of U.S. troops as an issue
was the leading Democrat, James Marlow.
He also was the only one of the 10 candidates to
say definitively that he supported the controver
sial immigration reform bill recently introduced
in the U.S. Senate. Marlow received less than
21 percent of the vote, which indicates that ap
proximately four out of every five 10th District
voters disagreed with him.
Even with his lonely stands on the issues,
Marlow came very close to making it into the
runoff with Whitehead. He was eliminated
because Jane Kidd and her colleagues in the
Democratic Party leadership were unable to ac
complish the basic task of "clearing the field" for
their anointed candidate. Democratic leaders per
suaded Terry Holley to stay out of the race and
not siphon off votes that Marlow would need in
a Republican district, but two African-American
women, Denise Freeman and Evita Paschall, qual
ified as Democrats anyway. Freeman and Paschall
were fringe candidates who raised little money
and had absolutely no chance of winning, but
they drew more than 4,300 votes combined.
To analyze the outcome as simply the triumph
of immigration over Iraq as an issue, or to blame
Freeman and Paschall for keeping Marlow out of
the runoff, may be to miss the larger point made
earlier about all politics being local.
Of the 10 candidates who qualified for this
special election, six of them resided outside the
boundaries of the district (if you include Marlow,
who moved back to his hometown of Lincolnton
for the campaign but has lived most of his
working life in metro Atlanta). There is noth
ing illegal about that, as there are no residency
requirements for people who run for Congress. In
the end, voters rejected all of those "carpetbag
gers" and chose two candidates, Whitehead and
Broun, who were legitimately residing within
the boundaries of the district well before
Norwood passed away last February.
The people of the 10th District evi
dently felt more comfortable with
two "local" candidates who would
be more familiar with local issues,
just as Tip O'Neill once said.
So it is that voters on July 17
will make their choice between
two candidates who are conserva
tive Republicans with long-standing
ties to the district and with very little
room between them on the major issues.
Which one will win? Whitehead has the stronger
position by far, has raised more money, and has
the support of Norwood's former aides and the
Republican Party establishment.
The best yardstick of all for measuring the
prospects of the two contenders may De this:
how they have done when an election is on the
line. Whitehead has performed well over the past
decade, winning a couple of county commission
races in Columbia County and then two races for
the state Senate, where he ousted a Republican
incumbent, Joey Brush, in the process. .Broun, on
the other hand, has lost Republican primaries in
one U.S. Senate race and two other congressional
races over the past 16 years. You can look for
him to lose another one on July 17.
Tcm Crawford
Tom Crawford is the editor of Capitol Impact’s Georgia
Report, an Internet news site at www.ciclt.net/garpt that
covers government and politics in Georgia.
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