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Md. fugitive found in Polk Co., awaiting extradition

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A Maryland fugitive wanted on rape and child molestation charges is in the Polk County Jail awaiting extradition. Fernando Lopez was apprehended Tuesday after a lookout was initiated in Polk Count...

NASCAR puts Carl Edwards on probation for 3 races

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Sticking with its “boys, have at it” attitude, NASCAR placed Carl Edwards on probation for three races Tuesday for deliberately wrecking Brad Keselowski’s car last weekend i...

Cedartown City Commissioners hear new round of ethics complaints

by Lowell Vickers

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At Monday’s meeting of the Cedartown City Commission, the city received copies of the latest ethics complaint filed by George Anderson, of the Ethics in Government Group, based in Rome. Anderson f...

Final Four to be shown in 3-D in theaters

No power grab

Yellow Jackets lose in tennis

Board: Polk schools will move to 160-day calendar next year

Ga. Tech’s Radakovich withholding review on Hewitt

Local auto dealer hopeful he can keep Cadillac franchise

Board signs on to stimulus-funded broadband plan

Wednesday's weather; lots of rain

Cedartown welcomes returning troops

John Oxendine, Republican candidate for Georgia Governor, speaks Saturday morning at the Cedartown Public Library. (Lowell Vickers/thepolkfishwrap.com)

Gubernatorial candidate Oxendine visits Polk County

by Lowell Vickers

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Gubernatorial candidate John Oxendine spoke to Polk County Republicans Saturday and outlined his 12-point “Contract with Georgia.” Oxendine, Georgia Fire Safety and Insurance Commissioner, is runn...

Pitcher Trey Benefield throws against the Bremen Blue Devils during last Friday's game. (Todd Ollis/thepolkfishwrap.com)

Cedartown's baseball team keeps rolling

by Brad Easterwood

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Tina Turner once sung a song that said “and we’re rolling, rolling, rolling on the river.” For the Cedartown Bulldogs baseball team, they couldn’t be rolling any better unless they were on a river....

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« Mipoco wrote on Wednesday, Mar 10 at 11:20 PM »

LOL @ 86canes.

You want a road map for that trip through Georgia? You certainly cannot depend on Oxendine's directions.

I wonder if he will ask for Jeb Bush's support like Alabama governor candidate Bradley Byrne did? That's about name recognition also. The Bush name. It says what I'm saying.

Barnes got beat by the flag promise by Perdue to a bunch of racist rednecks. Oops, that's about 90% of the Georgia and southern GOP voting base.

And yes of course I would vote for Barnes or anybody that is not from the Bush party. Heck I would vote for a komnist before a Bush republican.

« 86canes wrote on Wednesday, Mar 10 at 10:20 PM »

mipoco states that " he barely got 50% of the vote in 1994". In an election that is all it takes. It's a 2 man race. It's not a primary, there ain't a run off. "In the last 2 he got 66%". Well that is call a landslide. Georgians are not stupid. We know when someone is doing a good job. So don't tell me that Georgians are stupid and lazy and vote for the name recognition because we don't know any better. We voted Roy Barnes out didn't we. Now he is back again and probibly who you are voting for. But I could be wrong. But to say that a man that has spent the last 16 years involved at one of the highest levels of our state government has few qualifications is the statement of a idiot. I'm tired of the rep. or dem. line draw in the sand. How about the one that would do the best job? 66% of georgians in the last 2 elections says that he does. One idiot in cedartown says different. Who am I to believe?

« BigFish wrote on Wednesday, Mar 10 at 09:15 PM »

I remember when name recognition was the reason that Hillary Clinton was going to be our next President... Well, we see what name recognition did for her. And us.

« Mipoco wrote on Wednesday, Mar 10 at 05:54 PM »

Name recognition says this is probably the next governor of Georgia. Yep, sad but true. In the 1994 Georgia Insurance Commissioner Election he barely got 50% of the vote. In the last two elections he got about 66%, 2/3. Georgia voters can be lazy in that they will vote name recognition.

He has few qualifications. Nuke Grinch spouted the nothing Contract on America catchy slogan so now Oxendine has a Contract on Georgia.

Oxendine: “Competition is one of the greatest gifts God has given us,”

Say what? Competition, a gift from G-d? What about ability and know how?

"Oxendine also spoke about expanding the Highway 27 corridor for use as a major transportation route for industry. His proposal would create a kind of super bypass of Atlanta. It would connect back to I-75 in South Georgia near Newnan."

I don't know who goofed here, the writer or Oxendine but Newnan is NOT, repeat NOT, in south Georgia and is a long way from I-75. Heck, Macon ain't even in south Georgia. Macon is closer to middle Georgia. This may not be important to many voters but if you cannot comprehend the geography of the state then have the decency to NOT run.

« go4whatuno wrote on Wednesday, Mar 10 at 04:28 PM »

Also, who appointed them as well?

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