Rep. Austin Scott's brief moment in the national spotlight
Rep. Austin Scott, the senior member of Georgia’s GOP House delegation spent much of last week fuming over the GOP conference’s inability to elect a new candidate for Speaker of the House. And so on Friday, with Jim Jordan poised to be the only declared candidate in the race, Scott surprised his colleagues, the Capitol Hill press corps, and almost his own wife, and declared himself a candidate for the position. Scott lost to Jordan, but emerged from his status as a little-known maverick conservative into the national spotlight.
The AJC’s Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy, Greg Bluestein, and Bill…
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