
Before I let the rest of the world know, I wanted to share with you first the news that it looks like I won't be governor of the Great State of Georgia after all. My write-in campaign ran out of time. Things looked very promising. I had 45 firm commitments, including the prized endorsement of the Ryo Morning Coffee Club and its chair, Skeeter Skates, owner of Skeeter Skates Tree Stump Removal and Plow Repair in Ryo, Georgia. That was huge. Ryo Morning Coffee Club is a collection of Great Americans which includes Walleye, who runs the bait shop over in Red Bud; Booger Bledsoe, who operates a local roadside vegetable stand on State Route 136 near Sugar Valley; and Uncle Coot, recently retired from the porta-potty transportation industry. The Ryo Morning Coffee Club doesn't endorse just anybody. That is why you didn't see Donald Trump or Barack Obama stumping in Ryo. Trying to win over Skeeter and the boys would be a monumental waste of time. Can you imagine Trump trying to chat up Walleye on whether gizzard shad or red wigglers is the best bait for catching catfish? Or Obama discussing the logistics of porta-potty transportation with Uncle Coot? All that was left for me to do was to round up another 2,111,547 more votes. No question they were there for the taking. Once you have Skeeter and his colleagues on board, the rest of it should have been a piece of cake. I certainly had no plans to ask Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to see if he could find them for me. I…
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