The Republicans basically have the conservative vote in Georgia already. What they need is to add the votes of moderates to these conservatives. Shafer contends he's better suited for the job because of his experience as the party's top paid staff member during the last redistricting. Shafer managed Republican Guy Millner's 1994 campaign, in which he nearly toppled then-Gov. Zell Miller, and advised Millner's 1998 campaign against the current governor, Roy Barnes.
Celebrity cuts both way.
I don't think they tie the chairman of the party to a candidate. This article published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Friday, May 4, 2001. send this story to a friend discuss this story email the editor opyright 2001 Athens Newspapers Inc.