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Vernon Jones: ‘Obviously, the Democratic party loves to recruit losers’
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| Last Edited | RBH May 03, 2008 06:23pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | DeKalb County CEO Vernon Jones jumped into the Democratic primary race for U.S. Senate in unique fashion on Tuesday, by loudly announcing that his party — which recruited one of his opponents — has a taste for defeat.
“Obviously, the Democratic party loves to recruit losers,” Jones said. “In the past we lost both United States senate seats, we’ve lost the governor’s race, the lieutenant governor’s race, the secretary of state’s race, the last Democratic public service commission race. The Democratic party has constantly put up liberal candidates and they’ve lost election after election after election. And Vernon Jones and the people of Georgia want a winner.”
Jones is the second Democrat to qualify for the chance to unseat Republican incumbent Saxby Chambliss. Jim Martin, backed by Democratic recruiters in Washington and Georgia, paid his qualifying fee a day earlier.
Though last to enter the race, Martin has already outpaced other candidates in contributions. But Jones pointed out that he, too, has raised significant cash. “I’ve been able to raise a lot of money without the endorsements from the losers in the Democratic party,” he said.
Facing a scrum of reporters and cameras, with prominent Republicans as spectators, Jones declared Martin to be “a nice guy.”
“But you know what? He’s a veteran of the Vietnam war of the past. The war right now is at the gas pump,” Jones said. The DeKalb executive emphasized his fiscal conservatism, and the economic problems facing the country. Jones declined to take a position on Iraq until he studied the issue. |
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