Georgia Senate race: David Perdue goes after Obama's Ebola Czar pick and Michelle Nunn

Republican U.S. Senate candidate from Georgia, businessman David Perdue, already sounds like a conservative senator ready to oppose President Barack Obama’s every move, which is illustrated  by today’s statement from Perdue campaign about president’s pick of Ron Klain as the White House Ebola Response Coordinator, or ”Czar.

Klain is the former chief of staff to Vice President Joe Bide, Vice President Al Gore and Attoey General Janet Reno, and former advisor to Perdue’s’ opponent, Democrat Michelle Nunn. Some Republicans have criticized Obama’s pick because Klain, while clearly very experienced in Washington politics, has no experience whatsoever in medicine.  

”The American people are conceed about Ebola, but President Obama is more conceed about doling out favors to his political allies, said Perdue in a statement released today. ”It is this sort of insider behavior that Georgians are fed up with in Washington, and it makes us less safe as a nation. Instead of selecting someone with a medical background and the right experience, the President hand-picked a partisan lobbyist serving as Michelle Nunn’s senior advisor.

Perdue is capitalizing on this opportunity to once again link Nunn to the president, who is unpopular with majority of Georgians.  Nunn is running as a centrist nonpartisan, and for the most part has distance herself from the president and the Democratic Party.

”The fact that Michelle Nunn believes a partisan Washington lobbyist is the right choice for this position [as her senior advisor] only further demonstrates her deference to the President’s judgment on such important issues, added Perdue. ”Georgians deserve a Senator who will put people first, not a Washington insider who will be more of the same.

Perdue and Nunn have been running neck and neck according to state-wide polling, but recently Nunn has come up 1-3 points ahead of the Republican.  At this point, it is almost certain that the race will go into a runoff, to be held on Jan. 6, 2015.

Klain is set to take his position within the administration on Wednesday. The White House was pressured to take some public action in regards to Ebola after a Texas hospital failed to properly diagnose an Ebola patient from Liberia and sent him home with antibiotics.

Eric Duncan died shortly after finally being admitted to the hospital, but over 100 people had to be quarantined as a result of the hospital’s actions. So far, two nurses who cared for Duncan tested positive for the virus, and one of them flew on a commercial flight while already showing symptoms of the highly contagious illness.

This entire Texas fiasco sent many Americans into a panic mode, and protesters lined up in from of the White House demanding a ban on flights from West Africa.  The president has refused to ban flights, but we’ll see what the new Czar decides.