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	Name:	architect -
	Subject:	Indeed the facts are often inconvenient!!
	Date:	3/22/2012 3:52:11 PM (updated 3/22/2012 3:58:55 PM)

The Republican Party of Ga at that time selected candidates by convention an Bo was already selected. The GOP quietly urged party members and supporters to go and vote for Maddox in the open Democratic Primary against ellis Arnall and several others because he (Maddox) would be "easiest" for Bo Callaway to beat. At the time I was a new architectural graduate and working for a firm in which one of the principal was a member of the Republican state committee and was one of the few members who spoke up and told them the were crazy to try to influence the primary and put Maddox in as the Democratic candidate. They didn't listen and Maddox was nominated in a close vote.

In the General election Arnall received a few thousand write-in votes and Calloway received the plurality of votes with Maddox a few thousand votes behind. With all candidates lacking a majority the decision was left to the legislature to choose between the top two vote getters. The legislature being very conservative and overwhelmingly Democratic selected Maddox. Bottom line...a few foolish GOP voters most likely indirectly put Lester in the Governor's chair. That is not my assessment but the opinion of several political wonks and polling people, including several Republicans, at the time and on occasion since.

Maddox was not nearly as bad as many, me included, expected; but any good he might have done will never outweigh the bad he did. The two most inexcusable being his reaction to the murder of Martin Luther King. On being asked about MLK's death Maddox said "Well I don't even like to hear of a dog being shot." and on the day of the funeral he lined the capitol square with National Guardsmen and State Patrol with loaded arms with the instructions to "Stack'em up like cord wood if they start toward the building."...Glad you are a fan of Maddox!