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Anderson touts accessibility, bashes opponent Barrow
Wants conditions for debate
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A constituent called the office number listed on state Rep. Lee Anderson’s business card expecting to get a staff member.When Anderson answered the phone, the caller asked whether Anderson was available.“You’re speaking to him,” Anderson told the caller, catching her off-guard.Anderson, the Republican farmer from Grovetown who is trying to take incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. John Barrow’s 12th Congressional District seat, lists his cellphone number as his office number.“I never consider myself a politician,” Anderson said. “I’m a servant, not a politician.”He ended a roughly 40-minute interview with the Statesboro Herald by repeating his cell number at least three times. Then he proceeded to walk around and meet whoever was left in the Herald offices after 5 p.m., shake hands and pass out his campaign literature.That is Anderson’s preferred style: one on one.But Anderson’s campaign has insisted for the past couple of weeks that he will only debate Barrow, who is running for a fifth term in Congress, if the moderate Democrat will unequivocally say who he is voting for in the presidential election in November and his choice for House speaker or Democratic leader.For his part, Barrow has said he will vote for “the top of the ticket,” meaning President Barack Obama at the top of the Democratic ticket.
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