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Money helps, but votes win elections (GA 12)
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| Contributor | Reporting for Duty |
| Last Edited | Reporting for Duty Jul 16, 2004 04:34pm |
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| News Date | Sunday, July 11, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | News article explains that Barrow has amassed a formidible warchest, but others, like Haines, have grassroots support:
"If money alone determined elections, Athens-Clarke Commissioner John Barrow would easily win the Democratic primary for the congressional seat Athens shares with Savannah, Augusta and a long, narrow swath of poor, rural Georgia connecting those urban dots.
As of June 30, Athens lawyer Barrow had raised $825,908 in contributions, far ahead of his nearest rival in the four-man race, Doug Haines.
Haines, also an Athens lawyer, had raised $269,607, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission...
Haines, on the other hand is running the same kind of grassroots campaign of dedicated volunteers and one-on-one voter contact that earned him one of the biggest political upsets in Athens history, according to Bullock.
In Savannah, Tony Center has accused Haines of buying a key endorsement with his payment of some $76,000 to the Savannah Business League.
In 2000, Haines toppled Paul Broun with that grassroots style and a pro-environmental, pro-low-income campaign after Broun had served 36 years in the Georgia Senate. The win did not endear Haines to many party regulars, especially after Haines lost the seat to Republican Brian Kemp in 2002.
Barrow, by contrast, has paid decades of party dues as a longtime activist in local and state Democratic Party activities.
If Barrow has the edge in money, Haines seems to have the edge in yard signs, at least in Athens neighborhoods like the Magnolia Street area, a small, mostly African-American neighborhood tucked between West Broad and Baxter Streets..."
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