Dalton’s Trainer Caz Cole takes on signs with big boys at Columbus Derby today State Page 1B Page 1B THE DAILY CITIZEN Saturday,May 2, 2009 •Dalton, Georgia • www.daltondailycitizen.com • 50 Cents THINGS Deal enters TO CHECK OUT ON THE gov’s race 3 INSIDE BY SHANNON MCCAFFREY Associated Press Writer Pennington Columnist Bill Shipp writes that it’s now the GAINESVILLE — A North Republicans that seem Georgia congressman on Friday says he is like the doomed party. became the latest Republican to jump into the 2010 race for gov- See page 4A ernor,telling a crowd of not running The driver of an SUV several hun- described by passing dred support- BY JAMIE JONES motorists as “flashing a ers that he
[email protected] pistol” was arrested on has the expe- possession of drugs and rience and Dalton Mayor David weapons in Chatsworth. independence Pennington to lead the “entertained the thought” of run- See page 2A state through Deal turbulent ning for gover- Now is the time to lay sod times. nor,but U.S. in your yard. U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal said Rep. Nathan that if elected he’ll be a gover- Deal entering See page 11A nor who “does his owN thinking, the race on ties his owN shoes and can deliv- Friday ended the er a speech without a idea. teleprompter.” “It never Pennington The remark seemed reached that FROM TODAY’S designed to establish the 66- point,”said year-old from Gainesville as Pennington, in his second year as FORUM the senior Republican in the mayor of Dalton.