Rumors have it that the January 7 "re-do" of the November 5, 2002 General Election race of House District #1 is headed to another court challenge. Seems that in the January 7 election, enough discrepancies in votes were found by the Republicans to challenge the results, and thus possibly cause a 3rd election to occur between Republican Jay Neal and Dimocrat Mike Snow.

PV Sighs: Oboyyyyy...yet another fine example of Secretary of State Cathy Cox's FUBAR Elections Division.

We warned her back before the election. Mark Davis warned her. The AJC's Duane Stanford ignored the warnings and refused to print the story. Cox's SOS press secretary Chris Riggal spent his time refuting the proof of the problems...and now we are quite possibly facing a 2nd "do-over" of House District #1 race.

Yeahhhh, buddy!...down heah in Jawja, wee jest doo thangs in guvment any 'ole way we pleeze and to heck wit liss-nin to peeple hoo tel us wee don no howe to git hour elekshuns rite.

PV Spies An Ethics Violation: Say, did anyone read the AJC article concerning Larry Walker and Terry Coleman funneling big contributions to Mike Snow? The article appeared in the January 12, 2003 edition on the front page by reporter Alan Judd.

The following is the pertinent part of the article:

"On Dec. 19, Walker used his campaign account to write Snow a $2,000 check.

Two weeks later, on Jan. 2, Walker gave him another $2,000.

The same day, Coleman gave Snow $2,000, too."

Can anyone guess the violation here? The limit on campaign contributions to a general assembly member is $2000 per election. And, since Snow had no primary opponent, and therefore, no primary debt, Walker could only legally give Snow $2,000. Looks like both Snow and Walker are in violation of the law.

Maybe [the State Ethics Commission's Executive Secretary ]Teddy Lee can take that new $200,000 promised from Governor Perdue and put it to good use.