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Nowak takes on Marshall

Jim Marshall will probably win his primary, despite a challenge from the left:

The few Robert Nowak campaign signs explain why a Vermont cellist-turned-Bibb County elementary school teacher would take on a three-term incumbent for a seat in Congress.

"Nowak," the signs announce. "A True Democrat."

After years of making sure his conservative streak beat back the liberal tag Republican opponents tried to hang on him, U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall has earned a primary opponent who says he's not liberal enough.

"Mr. Marshall's not far from (Republican challenger Rick) Goddard," Nowak said. "I want to give Democrats a choice, I guess. ... No one was doing it. If somebody else had done it, that would be fine."
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Nowak favors health care for "all needy children" through an expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, called SCHIP nationally and PeachCare in Georgia. Marshall voted against an expansion of this program last year, drawing criticism from Democrats who, like Nowak, have grown tired of some of Marshall's more conservative votes.

Travis Fain recently interviewed Congressman Jim Marshall. You can check that out here.

You know, I thought about voting in the Democratic Party primary for awhile (that would have been a first), but I'll vote in the GOP primary to support a couple of candidates on the local and state levels. However, I cannot bring myself to vote for Rick Goddard. I'll be voting for Marshall in November.

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Jim Marshall is a good man, he's been an excellent advocate for the disabled community in Georgia and I look forward to his victory in November.

I agree. Mr. Marshall has always been a man of integrity and has led the way to help the disabled community of which I am well aware. He will get my vote in November.

I don't live in that district anymore since moving to Henry County, but lived in that district for several election cycles. I do have tons of family still in that district spread out from Dublin to Macon to Jeffersonville to Warner Robins. What is the skinny on Rick Goddard?

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