Monday, November 5, 2012
The North Druid Hills-Briarcliff area is home to a fierce contest between one of the Democratic Party's rising stars and a GOP contender who hopes to unseat him.
With less than a week to go before the Nov. 6 election, Tucker's only contested legislative race continues to be fought on the ground between incumbent Democrat Scott Holcomb and his GOP opponent, Chris Boedeker. The road for both candidates to this point in the race has been bumpy and marked by controversy. Holcomb, who represents District 81, became the de facto incumbent earlier this year, when Elena Parent, who represented District 80, chose not to run for re-election. Both districts were merged into one single District 81 by legislative Republicans when Georgia's legislative maps were redrawn to conform to new census numbers. On the Republican side, Boedeker defeated Carla Roberts in the July 31 GOP primary. That contest was filled …
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
North Druid Hills' only contested legislative race has become a fierce contest between one of the Democratic Party's rising stars and a GOP contender who hopes to unseat him.
With one week to go before the Nov. 6 election, North Druid Hills' only contested legislative race continues to be fought on the ground between incumbent Democrat Scott Holcomb and his GOP opponent, Chris Boedeker. The road for both candidates to this point in the race has been bumpy and marked by controversy. Holcomb, who represents District 81, became the de facto incumbent earlier this year, when Elena Parent, who represented District 80, chose not to run for re-election. Both districts were merged into one single District 81 by legislative Republicans when Georgia's legislative maps were redrawn to conform to new census numbers. On the Republican side, Boedeker defeated Carla Roberts in the July 31 GOP primary. That contest was filled …
Friday, October 19, 2012
The House hopeful has already pulled the ad from YouTube after it backfired and received negative press.
Chris Boedeker, in a bizarre political attack ad released Wednesday, said state Rep. Scott Holcomb opposed a welfare drug testing bill this year because he's a drug user. The Republican House District 81 seat challenger quickly removed the ad from YouTube after it was uploaded, however, once it became the subject of negative press attention. From The Huffington Post, which was given a copy of the ad: "Representative Scott Holcomb brags about his military experience," the ad's narrator says. "Scott Holcomb talks about using illegal drugs while in the service, which is why he now opposes drug tests for people who receive welfare benefits." The ad then shows a clip of Holcomb speaking against a welfare drug testing bill on the floor of the …
Mark A
12:51 am on Sunday, October 21, 2012
Boedeker is running an extremely poor and offensive campaign. I guess he will claim his opponent is a wife beater and a child abuser next, oh, and he hates puppies. What a thug Boedeker.Grow up and behave like a man dude. more ›