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wyethwire Donating Member (648 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 09:11 AM
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Georgia Dems Say GO TO HELL ZELL
David Worley - Atlanta attorney and the immediate past Chairman of the Democratic Party of Georgia - has written the following
OPEN LETTER TO ZELL MILLER.
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wyethwire Donating Member (648 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 09:15 AM
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1. Tell us ...
What is your favorite quote from the letter?
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phillybri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 09:22 AM
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6. My Favorite....
In your finest hour as Governor, you said “You cannot lead with a finger to the wind and an ear to the ground. It is an undignified position.” Only now, as you teeter with your hindquarters in the air, do I fully understand how right you were.

RIGHT ON!!!!
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wyethwire Donating Member (648 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 09:59 AM
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11. Also
"Now, with the hot political wind blowing from conservative networks, talk radio and corporate boardrooms, when it's become the fashion to bash the Democratic Party, you've joined in, writing a book betraying the people who stood behind every one of your campaigns --- not party activists, but hardworking Georgia families. You cast stone after stone at Democrats. Your silly, petty and often personal attacks remind me of no one more than your old boss, Lester Maddox."
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Jose Diablo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 12:18 PM
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22. I remember Lester Maddox when
He had this restaurant in Atlanta. It was in late 1963 and the civil rights laws stated he had to allow blacks to eat at the restaurant. Lester passed out baseball bats to keep the blacks out. This was his way to preserve his life as he knew it and to get publicity, I might add.

Later Lester became governor, I guess on this platform. He was just a political hack and unable or unwilling to see the future. He was unable to see people as they are. Lester could only see people as he wanted them to be. To preserve his concept of how the world worked.

Living in Georgia, it is my home, I am ashamed by Zell Miller.

Zell Miller is just plain trash in my opinion, just like Lester.

You can see echos of the very same thinking in the PNAC and neo-con agenda. A refusal to see the future, trying keep doing life the way it has been. These people will be swept away.

We cannot continue to do business as we have always done. We are killing the world. The world has so much poverty and pain, and our leaders continue to serve up an agenda of domination, more death and pain. These people are part of our past.

Zell has betrayed his own people. At least Lester never betrayed his own. Zell is like Lester in his blindness, but even less than Lester in that he cannot even be true to who he claimed as his own. Zell should have realized his own are the people, all the people, not just the influential. Zell is NOT a democrat. Dump the guy to the party he really belongs in.

He is not one of us. Zell is not part of the future, he is part of the crummy past. The Democrats are the future.

I think it is time to flush the toilet.

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Military Brat Donating Member (999 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 09:29 AM
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7. Head down in the dirt, butt up in the wind!!
"Only now, as you teeter with your hindquarters in the air, do I fully understand how right you were."
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burr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 09:36 AM
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8. David Worley was also a candidate against Newt in 88' and 90'
Edited on Fri Oct-31-03 09:39 AM by burr
My favorite quote was the last part..."Looks like you’re on you’re way back home, Zell, back to the hateful rhetoric of the Lester Maddox days, with frequent well-paid stops along the way in corporate boardrooms. Too bad that’s the final legacy you’re leaving."
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 09:17 AM
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2. Great letter, but Zell needs to be bashed over and over
Call him for what he is--out in the open--none of this senate decorum s**t!
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MGKrebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 11:27 AM
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16. self deleted
Edited on Fri Oct-31-03 11:28 AM by MGKrebs
(because it was just stupid.)
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CMT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 09:18 AM
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3. Great Letter
and now the Senate Democratic Caucus should tell Zell to go to hell.
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calimary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 09:20 AM
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4. 1 (800) 839 - 5276 - TOLL FREE Capitol Hill Switchboard.
How 'bout all us Dems tell Zell to go to hell? He sure as hell doesn't speak for ME!
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xultar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 09:22 AM
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5. Send Mr turn coat Miller an email on his site
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CMT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 09:53 AM
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10. just e-mailed his office
eom.
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bleedingheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 09:40 AM
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9. great letter!
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wyethwire Donating Member (648 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 10:04 AM
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12. Don't forget
to sign the petition on the other thread
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 10:10 AM
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13. Fabulous letter
I live in the Atlanta area. I've got to meet this guy just to shake his hand.
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wyethwire Donating Member (648 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 10:42 AM
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14. Atrios has picked it up**
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Blue_Roses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 11:14 AM
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15. Way to Go David!!
what an awesome letter. I was hanging on the edge of my chair taking in every word.

Great job!
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 11:35 AM
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17. Wonderful Letter
:-)
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knight_of_the_star Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 11:42 AM
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18. Didn't Dante say
That that Judas, Brutus, and Cassius were all in Satan's mouth being devoured for all eternity for betraying their master? I'm not Christian, but I think that Zell will probably get that, if what Dante said was true.
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samsingh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 11:59 AM
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19. truly awesome letter
Zell is despicable.
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dbt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 12:02 PM
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20. Johnny, rosin up your bow and play your fiddle hard!
:evilgrin:
dbt
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Freddie Stubbs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 12:04 PM
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21. Any word from the CURRENT chairman?
I'm sure that this whole thing has put him in a very uncomfortable situation.
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oc2002 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 12:51 PM
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23. Seems like another 'blue dog democrat' from the south?
I have concluded that most politicians from the south are a bunch of untrustworthy lot.

I do not know much about Zeller, so thats all I will say.
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Rose Siding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-01-03 11:59 AM
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24. kick
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