Perdue kicks off re-election campaign

Published 2:46 pm Monday, May 1, 2006

MARIETTA — Gov. Sonny Perdue on Monday launched a 20 stop re-election tour and took the wraps off the first television advertisement of his campaign.

“I am fired about doing this again,” Perdue said at a kickoff rally in Marietta Square in Cobb County.

The event drew more than dozen protesters waving Confederate flags and signs proclaiming Perdue a “liar.” The demonstrators are angry at Perdue for failing to follow through on his pledge to allow a vote on restoring the Confederate battle symbol to Georgia’s flag.