Posted on 11/03/2010 5:56:25 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
Georgia Republicans on Tuesday finished the job they started in 2002: consolidating control of state government by sweeping every major statewide office.
For the first time since Reconstruction the state is poised to have no statewide-elected Democrats.
The huge night for state Republicans follows a GOP wave that swept across the country and tilted the U.S. House of Representatives into GOP control and left Democrats with a narrow margin in the U.S. Senate.
With most of the votes in Georgia counted Tuesday night, the Republicans held leads in races for U.S. senator, governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, insurance commissioner, secretary of state, state school superintendent and agriculture commissioner. The party was also poised to gain one, possibly two additional congressional seats, giving it a potential 9-4 majority in the state's delegation to the U.S. House.
The results will transform how business gets done in Georgia, Gov.-elect Nathan Deal said from the GOP victory party at the Grand Hyatt in Buckhead.
“Having a team that I can depend on, a team that can work cooperatively, that’s something we haven’t had in this state,” Deal said. “Having a team that is all on the same page is good for the state. We all know we have challenges in this state, and we have to work together to solve them.”
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"America coughed up Nancy Pelosi like a fur ball," Johnson said of the soon-to-be-former Democratic speaker of the U.S. House. "It won't be pretty, but we'll feel a lot better when it's over."
First I’ve heard that one.
Thanks for sharing!
Will this be enough to stop the Sherman’s March of liberalism across the state?
That's a tall order considering the size of the metastisizing blue tumor in the middle of the state.
That's a tall order considering the size of the metastisizing blue tumor in the middle of the state.
Georgia is still sane. I am PROUD TO BE A GEORGIAN!
Ping.
Have you figured out America that Obama trampled on States Rights once again with Obamacare. Georgia, wake up and smell the coffee! Crap and Tax means their coming after your house and Barney Frank is in the Chicken coup after your IRA!
Barney Frank is in the Chicken coup after your IRA! He has the lame duck session left to do it in!
Sadly, we aren't referring to him as Governor Johnson.
Amen.
Amen; Brother Hoodat! Amen!!!
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