Boy is it ugly out here!! I've never seen so much ice on cars in my life. It took me 20 minutes to break into my car only to find out it wouldn't start. I cranked it until the starter was smoking, but no light. On a brighter note, I rented a pretty cool car: Pontiac G6 GT, a two door coupe with a bit of pep. But the enterprise folks have the governor set too low (in my humble opinion).

Cheers,

Kevin "Hack" King

Cranked till the starter smoked??? I hope you don't treat the airplane hardware that hard!!!!
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My folks have been without electricity for two days. Dad says area looks like a nuke device went off.

My house is a mile and a half from theirs. My electricity came on last night, so they were able to go there. Then it went out this morning. Again it came on a couple of hours ago, so I can rest knowing they should be ok for tonight. This storm caught them with their pants down. They didn't bring firewood up to the house and now it's all wet and icy. Got my nephew up there to drag some under cover so it would start drying out. That's what ole Dad gets for thinking he was going to wait until next week for me to haul all that wood in for him.

I'm heading that way mid next week. Thaw it out for me buddy. It's a good think my dad has a wood chipper. Guess what I'm going to be doing?

Be safe friend.

Did you actually propose a Dem for our Rep and say "Then you should vote for the only real conservative running, Kevin Madden" ? Huh?

Do you actually live here or are you some Hillary operative from a blue state?

Judy dear, we are a Republican County and proud of it. Go away (if you are really here).

I'm certainly a resident of Fayette County, and I'm certainly NOT a right-wing republican. I don't even drive an oversize SUV, nor do I hang out in public mens' rooms. And I'm here to stay, so maybe you right-wingers need to move over or move out. I'm certainly not going to sit quietly and listen to republican rants on "how things are". That's what got us into the debacle in Iraq, as well as the current mortgage crisis and economic mess that is threatening to turn into a full-scale depression.

What's going to "go away" after this election is the high-handed republican attitude that nobody else's opinion matters.

Look at Westmoreland's landslide re-election numbers. There's a guy with low intelligence who brings nothing to office who ran against a pretty decent Democrat, and won huge solely because he is a Republican.

This county is overwhelmingly Repub and that isn't going to change
any time soon. I can appreciate Democrats running candidates and trying to get their voices heard, but no Democrat has a chance in hell of winning an election in Fayette.

NUK

madden sounds like a good choice, however, i like how brown has become so vocal in local issues, relating to development. i may have to make my decision when i am standing at the voting platform. but i like your "personal choice" inference - please define, as this may make a difference in my decision. and please be truthful about what you were referring to in "personal choice" - i just hope this doesn't start some womb debate on this thread.

I have to comment on the many that choose to call any Democrat that runs for office as liberal. To call all democrats as liberal is absurd. Outside of Fulton, Dekalb and Clayton I would venture to say that most D's in the state legislature are conservative or at least centrist in their ideals. The term "Sam Nunn" democrats usually applies. Many of the Republicans, were once democrats, but changed parties, not because of their political beliefs, as those didn't change, but to increase electibility in their districts. I applaud Kevin Madden for sticking with his party. It will no doubt, keep him from getting elected because way too many look at the party and not the candidate. I don't know him but doubt he's a "liberal" as some of you are quick to call him..

Regarding district voting we already have it in a sense with our congressmen, our Senators and others. Would you do away with congressional districts and elect our congressmen statewide with a chance that you then might not have someone representing your area.

As far as local district voting, do you oppose each area of the county being represented? Fayette County elections tend to go 65-70% Republican when there is a Democratic candidate but our county commission is 100% Republican. Is that fair? Let's say we had district voting in Fayette County. I would guess that the only county district that might go Democratic would be the one carved out of N Fayette bordering Clayton. Now, I doubt the D's would even win then but if they did then they would only represent 20% on the county commission, still less then the 25-30% of Democrats in the county. Distict voting would at least give them representation. 100% representation by either party is a bad deal for all.