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Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Perdue says steady progress satisfies Georgians
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Gov, Sonny Perdue told legislative leaders that his re-election last year showed Georgians are satisfied with his policies calling for slow, steady progress without a lot of new programs.
“They are not that enthalled with some flashy new program,” Perdue told the House and Senate Appropriations committees this morning. “Three yards and a cloud of dust was not all that bad as long as you scored.
“We don’t have a lot of trick plays. We wouldn’t be Boise State as a state if we were in football.”
Perdue easily won re-election last year, besting Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor with 58 percent of the vote during a campaign in which he promised voters little more than the continuation of his limited-government policies. He became Georgia’s first Republican governor to win re-election.
Perdue has been criticized by some for his lack of new plans to ease problems like traffic congestion in Atlanta. The biggest new program he announced last week during his State of the State address called for an increased effort to attract fishing tourism, a $19 million program called “Go Fish Georgia.” Perdue said Georgia hosts fewer bass tournaments than any other state in the South.
“We are holding ourself back” by not doing enough to host bass tournaments, the governor told lawmakers.
As the House and Senate began work on Perdue’s record $20.2 billion spending plan, the governor said they should keep education and economic development their top priority.
Lawmakers will hear from the heads of the state’s education and public health agencies today. Those agencies account for about two-thirds of the state’s spending.
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