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The runoff elections are next Tuesday. In Dekalb County, the CEO is running for the US Senate, and there is a race ( key word here) to determine who the next CEO will be.
Peach Pundit has compared the postcards sent out by Stan Watson. He is running against Burrel Ellis for the CEO position.
I live in a white neighborhood. I received a postcard from “Stan Watson for Dekalb CEO” , with a Wesley Chapel Road address. This postcard lists his website, the prosaic stanwatson.com. ( This was an issue with Cecillia Haley. She used a goofy web address, and left CecilliaHaley.com to her opponent to use as an attack site). The postcard is a fairly nondescript affair, with the usual homilies about building a better county. All the people endorsing Mr. Watson are white. Included in the endorsers is Karla Drenner, who is openly gay.
Apparently, the black neighborhoods are getting a different message. The postcard makes some confusing charges about Burrel Ellis. It seems like he favored black officials before he ran for CEO, but appointed white officials to different positions after the decision to run. ( One wonders how Mr. Ellis got in the position to appoint officials, if he was a mere district council representative)
The other charge that Mr. Watson makes against Mr. Ellis is that Mr. Ellis did not endorse Barack Obama. To quote from the postcard: “ Stan Watson is one of the very first democrats in the state of Georgia to endorse Barack Obama in 2007 and has worked with Obama’s staff to ensure that he is elected the first African American President of the United States of America. Stan Watson was a part of the foundation that helped to anchor Barack Obama’s statewide victory and has the ties with Barack and Michelle Obama to make a difference in Dekalb County!”
The “Black” postcard does not show the Watson web address. The return address is “Concerned Dekalb Citizens”, with a Don Juan Lane address.
One wonders if BHO is aware of the coattail pulling by Mr. Watson. It is a mystery to this reporter what the race for POTUS has to do with collecting garbage in Lithonia.