Georgia facing possibility of a female governor

ATLANTA - If Republican gubernatorial candidate Linda Schrenko wins, she would be Georgia&#39;s first female governor. <br> <br> She would also be one of the first in the South to be elected in her own right. <br> <br> Most female governors, such as Alabama&#39;s Lurleen Burns Wallace, took over for husbands who died or became ineligible to run again. <br> <br> Schrenko became the first female governor elected statewide in 1994 when she became state schools superintendent. <br> <br> In her eight years as superintendent, she has never flinched from criticizing Governor Barnes as a power-hungry insider who flubbed education reform. <br> <br> Now she&#39;s turning her sights to two male Republicans she would need to beat in a primary before running in November -- former state senator Sonny Perdue and former Cobb County commission chairman Bill Byrne. <br> <br> But first she has to overcome naysayers in her own party. Republicans have been slow to donate money to Schrenko, preferring to support longtime politician Perdue. A campaign disclosure report filed in March showed Schrenko had raised 145-thousand dollars to Perdue&#39;s one-point-two (m) million dollars.