...the influential Web site RedState.com and was instrumental in getting the Republican, Dede Scozzafava, to resign in NY-23. (Bill Owens, the Democrat, ended up winning in a district that's been Republican for over 100 years. Oops.) Erickson plans to target other moderate Republicans in 2010. Good idea.
In the Daily Beast today, it says that Erickson:
...is an elected official himself: He’s one of two Republican members of Macon, Georgia’s 15-member city council.
Only two Republicans? What are the other 13, Flat-Earthers? There's more:
Governance has even led him to moderate some of his more doctrinaire conservative views, he said. “I’m much more sympathetic now to Republican candidates who have been on city councils or county commissions and have voted to raise taxes, much more sympathetic than I would have been not being on council,” he said.
Really. I guess actual governing is complicated. I wonder if anyone is going to "primary" Erickson.
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