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  <title>Oust  Jack Kingston; Elect Bill Gillespie, GA-01</title>
  <author>Blue South Georgia</author>
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  <blurb>Jack Kingston &lt;a href="http://billforgeorgia.blogspot.com/2008/10/jack-kingston-before-bachman-worse-than.html"&gt;called Obama unpatriotic before Michelle Bachmann, and Kingston is worse than Saxby Chambliss on the middle class, on veterans&amp;#39; issues,&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://billforgeorgia.blogspot.com/2008/10/jack-kingston-zero-on-environment-worse.html"&gt;on the environment.&lt;/a&gt; All that and more, plus Jack&amp;#39;s &lt;a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/11/kingston-work-longer/"&gt;just plain embarrassing!&lt;/a&gt;
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Update: Goal met! Bill Gillespie raised $3K in a day! You can&amp;#39;t tell it from the thermometer, because not all of it went through there, and not all went through ActBlue. Feel free to continue to donate: there are other uses for more money.
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Update: Less than $2,000 still needed to saturate cable TV (more than $1,000 received this morning).
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Update: Only &lt;a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/30/52713/035/259/646547"&gt;$3,000 to saturate TV in the district until election day.&lt;/a&gt; But don&amp;#39;t stop there: if we go over, Bill can use it for newspaper ads, broadcast TV, yard signs, travel, etc.
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Update: &lt;a href="http://swingstateproject.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=3743"&gt;Major endorsement from newspapers distributed throughout the district:&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;Coastal Empire News, publishers of Savannah Daily News, The Business Report &amp;amp; Journal and Coastal Family Magazine, is endorsing Savannah&amp;#39;s Bill Gillespie (D) for Congress to represent the 1st Congressional District over incumbent Jack Kingston ( R).&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://billforgeorgia.com/bg_meetbill.html"&gt;Lt. Col. Bill Gillespie&lt;/a&gt; quit the Army to run for Congress after he discovered in Iraq that it was the wrong war at the wrong time, and while running ROTC he discovered GA-01&amp;#39;s biggest export is our children. Bill wants to end the war and use the money saved for healthcare and education.  He wants &lt;a href="http://billforgeorgia.blogspot.com/2008/09/bill-on-environment-renewable-energy.html"&gt;to build renewable energy manufacturing in south Georgia&lt;/a&gt; so our children can come home to good jobs in a clean environment, and get good health care without going broke or losing retirement to do it.
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&lt;a href="http://www.thebrunswicknews.com/RL/Debate10_11" title="brunswickdebate.png by faul, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3008/2949844254_2cde30368a_m.jpg" height="211" alt="brunswickdebate.png" align="right" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;See &lt;a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/17/125035/38/3/633582"&gt;Bill debate Jack on the issues.&lt;/a&gt; Jack poses as a champion of the middle class, but Bill calls him on it, pointing to &lt;a href="http://billforgeorgia.blogspot.com/2008/09/ga-01-bill-and-jack-on-middle-class.html"&gt;themiddleclass.org, which gives Jack an F year after year.&lt;/a&gt; Jack cancelled the next two debates, &lt;a href="http://billforgeorgia.blogspot.com/2008/10/debate-parties-sunday.html"&gt;leaving Bill with 30 minutes of free state-wide TV time on Sunday October 26th.&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Update: &lt;a href="http://billforgeorgia.blogspot.com/2008/10/look-in-gpb-election-archive-scroll.html"&gt;Jack showed up after all&lt;/a&gt;, but &lt;a href="http://savdailynews.com/main.asp?SectionID=7&amp;amp;subsectionID=81&amp;amp;articleID=20201"&gt;but Bill won.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;
When people hear about BIll, they want to vote for him. You can get &lt;a href="http://billforgeorgia.blogspot.com/2008/10/watch-bills-new-television-ads.html"&gt;Bill Gillespie&amp;#39;s TV ads&lt;/a&gt; on the &lt;a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/24/204730/97"&gt;air more, send out postcards, print yard signs, and get ads in newspapers.&lt;/a&gt;
[[youtube: http://www.youtube.com/v/XJ_QGgYFXDE]]
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All the pundits say he can&amp;#39;t do it? Not &lt;a href="http://www.whatisgoinon.com/podcast/2008/10/11/bill-gillespie-candidate-for-congress-ga-1st/"&gt;the ones who have been paying attention:&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;What might be impossible in normal times (unseating an incumbent), just might be possible this year. Obama has energized a lot of people. There are 45,000 newly registered Democrats in the 1st District. And then there is the economy, which has certainly proven that Republicans must be doing something wrong.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://billforgeorgia.blogspot.com/2008/10/great-writeup-in-florida-times-union.html"&gt;The stars are aligned for Bill Gillespie!&lt;/a&gt;
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Hear &lt;a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/20/75912/199/971/635681"&gt;Bill tell his story.&lt;/a&gt; Listen to the audience!
   [[youtube: http://www.youtube.com/v/Of_0YcpdQa4]] 
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&lt;a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/24/204730/97?new=true"&gt;Bill Gillespie can beat Jack Kingston&lt;/a&gt;, and you can help. Replace the leader of the GOP theme team with a progressive Democrat!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</blurb>
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