Jimmy Carter's Legacy Shadows
Grandson's Run
Friday, 29 Nov 2013 11:49 AM
Jason Carter's
campaign to be the next Georgia
governor is being shadowed by the legacy of his grandfather, former President Jimmy Carter, Politico reports.
Case in point: Five days after the
younger Carter jumped into the Georgia
governor's race, his grandfather delivered a speech urging a ban on the death
penalty. Within hours, the candidate
told a reporter, "I believe in the death penalty for heinous
crimes, and that won't change when I’m governor."
The episode the upsides and
downsides of the Carter legacy for the young Democratic state senator, who is
waging a long-shot bid to unseat Republican Gov. Nathan Deal.
Despite Hispanic- and
African-American populations in Georgia,
the state remains solid GOP terrain and for many conservatives Jimmy Carter
embodies failed liberalism and weak leadership.
Jason Carter, a 38-year-old Duke-
and University of Georgia-educated lawyer, is a respected voice in the state
Senate, Politico notes, and calls himself as a centrist Democrat who will work
to reform education and state ethics laws.
Carter announced his candidacy
earlier this month, as Democrats are already energized about their 2014
prospects with Michelle Nunn —
daughter of Georgia
legend Sam Nunn, a former senator —
seeking a Senate seat.
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy
Carter was the president for the Jimmy
Carter administration, is Jason
Carter’s grandfather, and an honorary co-chairman for the Millennium Promise.
Note: Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Millennium Promise, and the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
George
Soros is the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Sam
Nunn is a co-chairman & CEO for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), and Michelle Nunn’s father.
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director
at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think
tank), the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)
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