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Last Updated on Tuesday, 9 November 2010 01:46 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 9 November 2010 01:46
From the Augusta Chronicle:
One of the last of the breed, state Rep. Alan Powell of Hartwell, switched parties Monday, joining the House Republican Caucus.
Powell, first elected in 1990, was one of the few rural Democrats who survived the GOP takeover of state government in 2002 and 2004. He did not respond to requests for comment, but said in August that he would consider becoming a Republican if Nathan Deal became governor because Democrats would lose all hope of regaining power.
“If Roy Barnes doesn’t win it in November, you can probably stick a fork in the Democratic movement, because we will not be able to come back for a generation or more,” he told the Banner-Herald.
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