Appreciate your confidence - but the only gospel is the Gospel! :-D
I've got some good friends (and my boss also) who are from Hall County, and they like Deal very much. He represented the most conservative district in GA for a long time and did a good job.
All this ethics stuff seems to be a tempest in a teapot, especially when you find out the source of it is a Soros-funded left wing outfit. If the NRA refuses to endorse Handel, that's just icing on the cake.
BTW, Barnes was given an A rating by NRA because he's o.k. on gun rights (you can't be anything else in GA). He's just rotten on just about everything else.
I don't know if Deal’s business dealings rise to the “scandal” level, but it's a fact that his company had a no-bid contract with the state that was and is very lucrative to him and his company. This may in the end be above-board but I know from personal experience that no-bid state contracts usually receive many levels of close scrutiny within Georgia government.