Taylor's desperate attempt to attack Cox blew up in his face today when Terry Toole, the editor and publisher of the Miller County Liberal (Taylor's source) issued a statement calling the ad, "a political fabrication." Cox called a press conference at noon today, and in the strongest of terms refuted Taylor's claims, calling the it "the Big Guy's Big Lie" and referencing Toole's written statement. Her full statement can be found here.
Is Taylor willing to say anything to get elected? How can we trust anything he says? If this is a sample of what's to come, we'd better hook a lie detector up to the television set for the next month. Is GAE going to sit by and allow him to use their name in a commercial that spins such fabrication? This certainly reflects poorly on their organization.
Here's the statement from Terry Toole.June 16, 2006
I can see why Cathy Cox would be upset that Mark Taylor would use something that she said in 1993, that was published in the Miller County Liberal, to damage her image by taking it out of context. Cathy didn't say she voted against the lottery in Georgia. Cathy was speaking to the Colquitt Lion's Club as a newly elected state representative, updating us on what was happening in the state. She let us know that she had nothing to do with voting the legislation in, since she was not in the legislature when the law was voted on.
Cathy could not have voted as an elected official for or against the lottery question. She said that she would be watching what happened with the lottery proceeds to make sure they went to education and scholarships as any good, honest public servant would be expected to do.
It looks like The Big Guy is grasping at straws stating that Cathy is against what the lottery money has done for education. That is just a political fabrication.
Many of us were against bringing legal gambling to Georgia. More were for the legal gambling. I personally still think it will, and has, hurt more Georgians than it will ever help. If anything good comes out of the lottery, it will be what it does to help educate our young people. No one is against helping fund our children's education. Some of us just hate to see people who can't afford to lose their money spend it on a sure losing proposition.
It looks like it is throat-cutting time in the race for the governor's office. Seems if the throat of an opponent can be cut by taking a 13-year old news article out of context, the throat is still cut. This doesn't make The Big Guy look too big in my eyes, or in many of the eyes of Georgia voters. If that is all I could drag up on my opponent, I believe I would try to run on my own record.
There is a saying about people who live in glass houses throwing stones. If I were a betting man, I would bet that some glass is about to shatter.
Sincerely,
Terry Toole, Editor & Publisher
Miller County Liberal
Saturday, June 17, 2006
The Big Guy's Looking Awfully Small Today
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Oh so now Terry Toole is a liar? Do you even know Terry Toole? I can't say that I do. But do you?
Just because he/she catches "the big guy" in a "big lie" and he/she doesn't sit back and let it happen, we're supposed to assume he/she is a liar? Toole has been in the newspaper business in the small town of Colquitt, GA for a long time. Do you honestly think that people would continue to support his/her paper, since at least 1993, if that's how he/she operated?
If you have ANY sane, sensible, plausible, first hand, or heck, even second hand info. as to why Terry Toole would see fit to risk his/her credibility and livelihood as a journalist for the sake of telling a lie on poor ole Mark Taylor, please share it with us. Otherwise, I'm just not interested in seeing you call an innocent person a liar.
If it took calling every man, woman, and child in the state of Georgia a liar to get Mark Taylor elected, would you really do that? Is that what Mark Taylor inspires in people? Because we've already seen a few examples of this.
Take your suggestion that Cathy should say was against the lottery (even though she was for it) but then supported it later. I can think of at least THREE Taylor supporters who post here that would do as they did on the flag amendment: emphasize her first vote and then ignore her subsequent votes which put her on the right side of things. LYING BY OMMISSION and trying to paint someone that isn't a racist as being a racist is a VERY common tactic among Taylorites. And when they do it, they're only following the lead of the Taylor campaign itself.
To me, that's a demonstrated reason enough to believe that some folks just aren't interested in the truth. Only in the "political fabrication" (your own source said so) that comes from Mark Taylor.
So if you've got the goods on Terry Toole and why he/she would take a part in your elaborate scenerio, I would suggest that you spill it.
Mark Taylor is the Calder Clay of the Democratic Party in Georgia. I didn't think so until yesterday, but his ad reminds me of the baseless attacks Clay leveled against Jim Marshall. And his own source comiong forward to de-bunk the ad is like the veterans rallying around Marshall to spank Clay. You see how far this approach got Calder. Voters don't like this kind of thing. Taylor has ahd several missteps in the last week. Is Dent asleep at the wheel?
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