The Marietta Daily Journal – Around Town Everhart Handel endorsement doubters need to get the facts straight

Former Georgia GOP Chairwoman Sue Everhart of east Cobb says she usually doesn’t make endorsements, but in the case of U.S. Senate hopeful Karen Handel, she is making an exception.

“You know, everybody that runs just about I’ve helped at one time or the other,” Everhart said. “I’m their friend, so it’s pretty hard even though you may think that one person is better for the job than another.”

One race Everhart is staying out of is the one to replace U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Marietta), who is also running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated in 2014 by Sen. Saxby Chambliss.

“I’ve got so many friends in that 11th District that I just cannot do an endorsement, and it’s not that I didn’t have friends in this Senate race, but this Senate race is very important, as all of them are, but I really did do a lot of soul searching, and I really think that Karen is the better person for the job, I really do.”

Everhart said Handel has a record of cleaning up messes, whether it was working at the North Fulton Chamber of Commerce, the Fulton County Board of Commissioners or as Secretary of State.

“She usually walks into a mess and cleans it up, and Lord knows Washington is a mess,” Everhart said.

Handel’s greatest challenge, Everhart believes, will be fundraising.

“Men seem to do better, and of course the three congressmen, they already have a war chest and she does not, and of course they all added to it, and the money she’s going to have to raise is hard money, which is hard to raise,” Everhart said.

But money isn’t everything as evidenced by former Gov. Sonny Perdue ousting former Gov. Roy Barnes from office, she said.

via The Marietta Daily Journal – Around Town Everhart Handel endorsement doubters need to get the facts straight.