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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDerek Dooley didn't vote for years. Now he wants Georgia voters to send him to Washington
Lots of candidates pitch themselves as political outsiders. Derek Dooley goes a step further. Not only is the former football coach running for the first time, he says he did not vote for nearly two decades.
He did not vote when Republican Donald Trump was first elected president in 2016. Nor did he vote in 2020, when Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
But Dooley does not worry about that as he seeks the Republican nomination to face off against Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff in Georgia. He insists that Washington needs someone with a fresh outlook, someone who is not focused on their own political career or their political ambitions.
Besides, lots of people do not vote, and Dooley told The Associated Press that he wants to inspire more people to do so.
If youre not vigilant in exercising that right, things can go pretty sideways in our country, he said.
https://apnews.com/article/derek-dooley-georgia-football-republican-senate-trump-79206ea3f3150a1441c940c4b390b1a4
He was a lousy football coach, so now he wants to be a congresscritter? No thank you very much!
Swede
(38,877 posts)Just go away knucklhead.
niyad
(130,828 posts)How bad could it be?
hlthe2b
(113,314 posts)In more ways than one.
May as well run Herschel again (oh, please no)
Callie1979
(1,232 posts)But he wont.
This is Mike Collins race to lose
paleotn
(21,900 posts)The guy who cratered the once proud Tennessee football program? That 41 to 18 spanking Vanderbilt gave him in his next to last game at UT still gives me a warm fuzzy.
Traildogbob
(12,800 posts)And they went through a string of real bad ones.
He sucked most.
Do not elect that loser. Isn't Football McDumbass in Bama enough to prove no more coaches? How about rape protector Gymmy Jordan. Damn the Stupid. A damn NASCAR driver that never won will fly through the process and be President with this MAGA GQP and endless cash flow.
Dale Earnhardt would win easily. While dead.