Friday, April 12, 2013
Ed Lindsey is seeking Republican nomination for the U.S. Congressional 11th District, which includes Cherokee County.
Rep. Ed Lindsey (R-Atlanta), who represents the 54th district in the Georgia House of Representatives, announced Thursday that he is seeking Republican nomination for the 11th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. The 11th district stretches from Bartow, Cherokee and the west and northwestern portion of Cobb counties and also includes Buckhead and Sandy Springs. That seat will be soon vacated by Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Marietta) as he plans to run for the U.S. Senate seat Sen. Saxby Chambliss will not seek re-election to. In an email, Lindsey noted the 11th district is a "wonderful and diverse district where over 700,000 of us have chosen to live, work, play, worship, and strive for better opportunities for our families…
Thursday, March 28, 2013
U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey of Marietta, who represents Cherokee County, says he is running for U.S. Senate seat next year.
Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Marietta) has tossed his hat into the ring to run for the U.S. Senate in 2014. Gingrey, who represents Cherokee County in the U.S. House of Representatives, went to his hometown of Augusta on Wednesday to make the announcement. Gingrey is the second Republican congressman from Georgia to enter the race for the seat, which will be vacated by retiring Sen. Saxby Chambliss. Rep. Paul Broun of Watkinsville announced his bid last month. While no one else has formally entered the fray, Republicans Rep. Tom Price of Roswell and Rep. Jack Kingston of Savannah and Democratic Rep. John Barrow are all considering bids for the seat, the National Journal and SeattlePi.com report. In his remarks, Gingrey promised to trim the …
Friday, January 25, 2013
Who would be a good candidate to represent Georgia in the U.S. Senate?
Citing a lack of bipartisanship that he covered with the Sandy Springs/Perimeter Chamber of Commerce last year, U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss announced on Friday that he is not seeking re-election in 2014. “This is about frustration, both at a lack of leadership from the White House and at the dearth of meaningful action from Congress, especially on issues that are the foundation of our nation’s economic health," Chambliss said in a statement. "The debt-ceiling debacle of 2011 and the recent fiscal-cliff vote showed Congress at its worst and, sadly, I don’t see the legislative gridlock and partisan posturing improving anytime soon. "For our nation to be strong, for our country to prosper, we cannot continue to play politics with the American …
Southdem
5:10 pm on Thursday, March 28, 2013
Oh please, please, please, let Gingrey, Broun, Price, and Kingston all run. That will be the nastiest primary campaign on record and when it's over three of them will be out of politics forever. And the fourth one will be after losing in November. And then Georgia will have a sane Democratic Senator and can begin to climb out of this dark GOP night. more ›