In the letter above, Steve Brown asserts, “We were simply no match for the financial juggernaut that was the Ramsey campaign.”

WE??? Not really. Just Steve Brown. Brown was the only candidate with a shot at beating Ramsey in this strongly republican district. But Brown lost because Brown campaigned just like the democrat he is. Brown ran as the little guy against the big - - the weak against the powerful. Brown ran as a republican using donkey tactics. How predictable. And in the above letter (public display of self-pitying introspection), Brown blames his loss on his own decision to NOT accept campaign contributions. Excuse me while I vomit. More likely, Brown knew his ability to generate contributions was extremely limited. And most voters easily saw right through this disingenuous attempt to assert the moral high ground. Brown’s attempt to garner sympathy votes was destined to fail dramatically. For a candidate with credibility, it might have worked. For Steve Brown, it was a poor choice of strategy. But then, it was the only choice he left for himself. That, and a string of vicious disingenuous attacks against Ramsey.
Perhaps if the Brownies (who spend a lot of time posting comments here) had volunteered a few hours to work on Brown’s campaign, the results might have been different. But they don’t strike me as the volunteering type. Probably wouldn’t have mattered anyway. It still would have ended up as another “Grand” defeat.

And, in the future, when Steve Brown bashes the Peachtree City Council with unfounded and scurrilous “in the developer’s pocket” accusations, we will know what he has learned from defeat. Nothing. Again.

Stand by for future delusions of “Grandeur” from Brown and the Brownies. Don’t know about you, but I can’t wait. It’ll be like Christmas all over again.

From the other side of the tracks

Yeah, we'll see alright, just like everybody who believed the hype and phone calls from his "family" before the election believed that Logsdon wasn't just an empty suit in the Developers' pockets, they've all "seen" too. Then there's a letter from none other than Dan Tennant, waxing eloquent about all the "common folk" who were behind the Lawyer Ramsey. Yep -- we'll see.

While $30-40K is more than some people's annual take home pay, a "juggernaut" it is NOT (perhaps a "jugger-NOT"??). It is just Steve Brown spin. Behold the poor pitiful Steve Brown, whose candidacy was trumped by money - - or so Brown would like you to believe.

The real bottom line is this: Steve Brown was not willing to put HIS MONEY WHERE HIS MOUTH IS. And if Brown demonstrates so little faith in his own candidacy, it is no wonder that the electorate showed little confidence in him either. Brown lost by more than TWO to ONE in a four person race.

But, will he learn ANYTHING from this defeat? Only time will tell.

From the other side of the tracks

I asked you this before but maybe it was buried before you saw it, but, are you saying that the thirty to forty thousand dollars that Ramsey spent was all his money, then that would mean the list of donors was false then, right?

I yam what I yam....Popeye

The first lesson is that we don't want to read his letters (and don't because they are too long) and we certainly don't want to read his letters presented as a column or opinion piece. Brown is not a good writer, a trained writer or an expert on anything. Cal can only be giving him free space because of Brown's anti-everything, developer under every tree stump mentality.

Trust me on this one Cal, the majority of your readers don't think like Steve Brown and as the last election proves - we have had enough of him. Please keep him out of the paper or if he has to be there - limit him to 500 words once a month. Come to think of it - that's a good rule for everyone.

So you must be saying that the 30,000 or 40,000 dollars that Ramsey had was from his own pocket? That money was considerably more then the other candidates spent, I would hazard a guess that was more then the other three spent all together.

I yam what I yam....Popeye

I think the financial juggernaught referred to means the 400-500 million dollar net worth of those who supported Ramsey!
Must be a reason for that!

Tell me, how does citing the tone of most pre-election attacks on Ramsey and a post-election backhanded compliment constitute bashing Brown? I do believe you have just confirmed my point. BTW I was, for many years, a Mainframe Computer Guy, a fact I may have to deny in the future. Don't want to risk guilt by association. Besides, I retired as a client / server guy.

Nice to hear from another dinosaur -- too bad you went over to The Dark Side. (Is that you, Steve?) We have two favorite sayings at our place (which, unfortunately, is still stampeding over a cliff trying to get off the Mainframe and onto the toy computers, this being about year eight of their two year plan):
1) Never trust a computer that you can lift.
2) What would you rather have pulling your plow, two Clydesdales or two hundred chickens? (Have you ever tried to herd chickens?)

I didn't see anything back-handed in Steve Brown's letter, I read it hearing nothing but congratulations and positive comments about all the candidates. I just saw two typical anti-Brown posters jump on him for nothing. Maybe I missed his real tone. I also figure that a testimonial from Tennant is pretty much like one from Lennox or Logsdon -- I'll take the other, thanks.

After many years of mainframe life I felt mostly like you do. However, after being a member of a project team to install a corporate level, client server based ERP system, which we did in nine months, I became a convert. Probably the most interesting and enjoyable time of my 40 year IT career. That installation replaced 2 mainframe systems in merged business units of an international company. Sure beat this blogging by a wide margin.