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bench scientist

(1,107 posts)
Sat Oct 12, 2013, 12:49 AM Oct 2013

Protesters demonstrate outside Paul Broun's Athens office

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Signs stating “Don’t Cruzify America” and “End the Shut Down” greeted travelers on the Atlanta Highway by the Georgia Square Mall — the location of Rep. Paul Broun’s office — Friday afternoon as about 25 protesters waved their displeasure at the ongoing partial shutdown of the federal government...

http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2013-10-12/protestors-demonstrate-outside-paul-brouns-athens-office

I so want this dipshit to lose his U.S. Senate bid. I doubt we'll be able to win his House seat here with it's heavily gerrymandered district( thanks GA state Repubs), but just having him lose the Senate bid would be a change for the better.

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Protesters demonstrate outside Paul Broun's Athens office (Original Post) bench scientist Oct 2013 OP
I'm THRILLED to finally hear some positive info in Ga! napi21 Oct 2013 #1
yup lots and lots of red tiny dots of blue bench scientist Oct 2013 #3
I'd have to live in a high rise condo in the middle of the city Warpy Oct 2013 #4
Excellent gopiscrap Oct 2013 #2
Pleased to read about this. Laelth Oct 2013 #5
agreed bench scientist Oct 2013 #6

napi21

(45,806 posts)
1. I'm THRILLED to finally hear some positive info in Ga!
Sat Oct 12, 2013, 01:07 AM
Oct 2013

We moved here in 2000, and I've felt like I'm drowning in the Red Sea ever since! We are the only Dems in our sub-division for sure!

Warpy

(113,131 posts)
4. I'd have to live in a high rise condo in the middle of the city
Sat Oct 12, 2013, 01:58 AM
Oct 2013

if I took leave of my senses and moved there.

The cities down south aren't that bad. Once you get outside them, they've barely budged since the 1920s.

South Carolina is still stuck in the 1860s.

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
5. Pleased to read about this.
Sat Oct 12, 2013, 07:01 AM
Oct 2013

Nice to see people making their voices heard. That said, I don't think Broun's well-gerrymandered district is in play absent a ten point swing in the attitudes of the electorate.

Thanks for the post.

-Laelth

bench scientist

(1,107 posts)
6. agreed
Sat Oct 12, 2013, 08:31 PM
Oct 2013

The state GOP split Athens into 2 adjoining congressional districts to dilute the democratic vote here. Best we can hope for is someone less batshit crazy than Broun. It's sad he is so crazy, his dad -Paul Broun Sr. was a well respected Democratic State Senator for many years.

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