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Sat. Aug 03, 2002

Republicans Can Help Boot McKinney

Republicans Can Help Boot McKinney – Atlanta Constitution columnist Jim Wooten notes, "Republicans in DeKalb County’s 4th Congressional District do not matter. They don’t count. They’re there, but as filler. In congressional races, their perdition for the next 10 years is to be represented by a liberal Democrat. They can vent, write letters, pout or drop out, but in redistricting Democrats guaranteed that the 4th District of Georgia will send a Democrat, certainly a liberal and most likely a black, to Congress [...] In the old days when Democrats did to blacks what they have now done to Republicans, blacks often voted in blocs to keep the worst of the segregationists out of office. It’s a strategy Republicans should embrace [...] Georgia does not have party registration. Voters decide when they walk in the door whether they want to vote in the Republican or the Democratic primary. You can be a Republican one primary and a Democrat the next and split the ticket in November. Republicans in November have no chance of electing a conservative in the 4th District race. Democrats in the General Assembly have stacked the deck. But they can choose the more moderate of the liberal Democrats."