tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88583110494084272872009-05-25T11:00:39.234-04:00Welcome to the official blog of Bill Gillespie's campaign for CongressBill Gillespiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13797746236676859674noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8858311049408427287.post-61869050896663556342008-11-06T08:45:00.003-05:002008-11-06T21:41:40.428-05:00

Well folks, we tried. Lowndes County was close (45.4% to 54.6%; that poll didn't lie). Unfortunately, Bill lost every county (33.4% to 66.6%), except one:Bill Gillespie, who challenged Kingston said, “We won Liberty County! That felt goo. Since I am a 3rd ID veteran and still work there. We had great support in Liberty.“As for the First Congressional District, it was unfortunately, very similar

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There will be no House race runoff, so if you want Bill Gillespie to be our next U.S. Representative from Georgia's First District, and you haven't voted yet, vote today!The VDT was confused about the runoff, but they weren't confused about Jack Kingston being in a precarious position. Help oust Jack and elect Bill.If you have already voted, go on down to the Tybee Island office and help get the

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The intro says "long-shot candidate" but the audio interview includes snippets like a veteran wearing a McCain hat recognizing Gillespie, calling him by name, engaging in conversation, and later saying he may vote for him. Lots of material about Bill Gillespie's Iraq experience, disabilities, and knowledge of veterans' health care. Also economy, taxes, and Iraq. Well worth listening to.

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The Valdosta Daily Times says:The position of Jack Kingston is equally precarious. Kingston’s support is exactly 50 percent with almost one in four registered voters undecided, according to the survey, making a runoff in Georgia’s First Congressional District with challenger Bill Gillespie a possibility.This is from a telephone survey of 453 random phone numbers (margin of error 4.6%) in Lowndes

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Bill Gillespie snags a major endorsement from newspapers distributed throughout Georgia's First District:Coastal Empire News, publishers of Savannah Daily News, The Business Report & Journal and Coastal Family Magazine, is endorsing Savannah's Bill Gillespie (D) for Congress to represent the 1st Congressional District over incumbent Jack Kingston (R).Savannahian Bill Gillespie is a highly

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Photo: jimmywayne22 CCJim Martin and Bill Gillespie are on the road! As you know, Jim Martin aims to defeat Saxby Chambliss for Georgia Senator. You're probably aware by now that Bill Gillespie aims to oust Jack Kingston from GA-01."What is the Road To Change Bus Tour? The Democratic Party of Georgia will tour across Georgia, making 50 stops in 7 days, touting our Democratic candidates."Friday 31

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This one needs no editing:From: "Larrietta Johnson"Date: Tue, October 28, 2008 2:02 pmTo: billgillespie@billforgeorgia.comHello Bill,It's Larrietta Johnson. I was the soldier in the accident traveling behind your vehicle in Kuwait. I just wanted you to know that I voted for you today to represent the first congressional district of Georgia as our congressman.I also watched your debate against

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Look in the GPB election archive, scroll down in the menu to APCD-1st Congressional District Debate, and press play.A very few snippets are below. You've already seen some other impressions. Now you can watch for yourself.Bill criticises Jack for not doing anything for the soldiers in his district, and compares Jack to Colonel Sanders: good for the fast food industry; not so good for the

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After saying he DECLINED to debate Bill Gillespie, Jack Kingston showed up Sunday after all!Jack didn't have much to say, though: with Kingston primarily charging that Gillespie misrepresented himself as having a Ph.D. Gillespie said he had made no such claim, but said he had completed all of the work necessary for a Ph.D., other than the dissertation.Instead of picking at trivia, Bill went for

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Jack Kingston means you! Especially if you're a member of the "Democrat Party":If the Democrat Party truly wanted to take on poverty, they would have to say what is the relationship between marriage and the poverty level and between hours worked and the poverty level, because the truth of the matter is, if people end poverty, many of them would marry and work 40 hours a week, they would be out of

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The Atlanta debate Sunday between Jack and Bill will be broadcast on Georgia Public Broadcasting. Time for debate parties! The debate starts at 6PM, so you can start partying at 5.Will Jack Kingston show up, or will he be missing like his Republican cohorts Westmoreland, Linder, and Price? Or like Jack himself when he failed to show in Savannah Friday? Maybe Kingston didn't like getting beat by

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The League of Conservation Voters rates Jack Kingstona whopping zero (0)on his environmental votes in the 110th Congress.Once again, Jack manages to be worse than Saxby Chambliss, who apparently did good at least once; Saxby got 8%.Jack isn't just bad, he's one of the two worst of the entire Georgia Congressional delegation.What do you expect from somebody who wants big tours and roads on

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(Photo: Waldo Jaquith, CC license)No, I don't mean Kingston is for logic. This is the same Jack who impugned Obama's patriotism while not wearing a flag pin on national TV. Kingston doesn't wear one back home, either,.ProLogic is a military contractor in a CBS News on Jan 11th saying the FBI is investigating ProLogic for its use of some public funds.According this list of political contributions

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Michelle Bachmann's got nothing on Jack Kingston. The whole country knows Kingston as the hypocrite who accused Barack Obama of being unpatriotic for not wearing a flag pin while not wearing one himself. And harping on Obama's middle name Hussein and claiming Obama wouldn't say the pledge of allegiance and trying to peg Michelle Obama as unpatriotic; Dan Abrams tells Kingston not to come back

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Jack Kingston is "the House champion for Georgia" in pulling in federal funds.(Photo: Waldo Jaquith, CC license) He defended earmarks back in 2007:"Why do you think we have 13 (military) bases in the state of Georgia?" Kingston said in an interview. "That doesn't happen by accident."Hm, well, that sounds plausible; who in GA-01, with its four major military bases, would object to that? And

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Bill got applause for saying what needed to be said: Video by Gretchen QuartermanA few of my favorite bits from Bill Gillespie's speech at the south Georgia Political Forum in Valdosta, Oct 14: "going from analog to digital ... new leadership, new opportunities; I want to be one of those new leaders that put people first","Iraq war... wrong war, wrong time; it's a money pit, money that we

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They met in Brunswick.Jack cancelled in Savannah.They meet again in Atlanta, Sunday, October 26th, at Georgia Public Broadcasting in a debate sponsored by the Atlanta Press Club.All debates will take place at Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) before a live studio audience. Members of media, students and the general public are welcome to attend. Please call 404-577-7377 with questions or if you

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The South Georgia Political Forum of Tuesday 14 October is appearing repeatedly on VSU-TV, today, tomorrow, and Wednesday, and more times after that. Both Bill Gillespie and Jack Kingston spoke, so this should be of interest across GA-01. Here's the schedule: Sat Oct 18: 6PM Sun Oct 19: 12AM, 9AM, 6PM Wed Oct 22: 8:30PM Sat Oct 25: 9AM, 6PM Sun Oct 26: 12AM, 9AM, 6PM Wed Oct 29: 8:30PM Sat Nov

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Jack debated Bill once; guess he didn't want to try again.Bill Gillespie, Candidate for Congress in Georgia's 1st Congressional District will address a Joint SSU/AASU student body @ SSU tonight. The event was suppose to be a Debate, but Mr. Kingston cancelled!The Political Science Association -- Sponsor of the event will allow Bill to give a Policy Address -"A Vision for the 21st Century." The

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Here's Jack Kingston on his blog (found by Capitol Impact), in 7 April 2006:Despite the critics, it is clear that our economy is rocking and rolling like never before! In fact, the unemployment rate dropped to 4.7 percent, which is lower than the averages of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.It is clear that the economy is continuing to thrive and surge thanks to common-sense Republican policies

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Nature writer Janisse Ray likes Cumberland Island:I like the kingfishers, sea turtles, dolphins, pelicans. I like the sea oats and live oaks. The royal tern.But paving is coming even to that remote wildlife sanctuary:Now all that wildness is in jeopardy. The National Park Service (NPS) wants to run motorized tours through it. It wants to rewrite history: take 9,800 acres of wilderness and

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Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) rates Jack Kingston a C for veteran's issues. Meanwhile, Bill Gillespie is a veteran of the Iraq war, and Bill is endorsed by Gen. Wes Clark. After he served in Iraq, Bill ran ROTC programs throughout south Georgia, so he knows conditions on GA-01 military bases first hand. Bill strongly supported the 21st Century GI Bill.So if you're a veteran,

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Click here to watch the Brunswick Debate, which was sponsored by The Brunswick News and moderated by reporter Jess Davis.

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On November 2007, 291 members of the U.S. House voted for H.R. 3915: Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act of 2007. All of Georgia's Democratic representatives voted Yea; all Ga. Republican representatives voted Nay, including Jack Kingston.If we had that law, the country wouldn't be in quite such an economic mess now, but Dec 3, 2007: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred

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Just let Jack speak for himself:More than 40,000 people have viewed this on YouTube.Oh yes, Jack wasn't wearing a flag pin.Is this who we want representing GA-01? If not, support Bill Gillespie.

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