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DEL.ICIO.USPerdue 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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By emily
January 17, 2007 12:13 PM | Link to this
enthalled? who wrote this?
By Amused
January 17, 2007 12:42 PM | Link to this
I find it an amazing contrast that Perdue’s big initiative is bass fishing while California’s Governor is proposing a very ambitious initiative on healthcare. Seems like comparing road kill to steak.
By JohnM
January 17, 2007 12:58 PM | Link to this
Sonny-do, don’t kid yourself into thinking that Georgians are centrist Dem, I literally had to hold my nose while voting for Mark Taylor. You were the lessor of two evils - that’s the only reality here. And please don’t fool yourself into thinking ala Zell “That Georgia is the envy of the Country!” As someone who loves this State, I am becoming increasingly distressed at the direction we are taking. Your lack of leadership and vision is a complete embarrassment to what used to be the most progressive State in the South.
By Fall Line
January 17, 2007 03:06 PM | Link to this
At which point has Georgia ever been the most progressive state in the South? As for Atlanta’s road problems, there are other priorities in the state outside of Atlanta. Atlanta needs to do more to resolve its own problems.
By LMAO
January 17, 2007 03:38 PM | Link to this
One way Metro Atlanta could solve its “own” problems would be to cut off the flow of Atlanta tax dollars to the rest of Georgia. How about that Fall Line? Would that work for you? Georgia sponges off of metro Atlanta worse than south/central Fulton County sponges off north Fulton.
Keep strangling the cash cow Georgia.
By agt
January 17, 2007 04:39 PM | Link to this
in response to lmao, how would you like it if all of us in south/central fulton just moved to north fulton would you feel better? didn’t think so . Quit your crying !!!!!
By cjack
January 18, 2007 11:17 AM | Link to this
Gov.Sunnie PooDoo has stated that ,if the state of Georgia were a stock listed on the NYSE,everyone would want to own it.I say,if Gov.PooDoo were CEO of this stock (Georgia),he would indicted for fraud,convicted,jailed and required to make restituion to the share holders(ga.citizens)for his land dealings and tax evasion.
By RJ
January 22, 2007 04:30 PM | Link to this
Contrary to Gov. Sonny Perdue’s take on his re-election victory, the outcome was more a matter of what happens when a good portion of the electorate is asleep, played for suckers, or simply rejects the alternative. That’s the only reasonable explanation for such an impressive election outcome for an ethically challenged, non-visionary candidate with the misguided notion that he can write his own speeches.
There is a silver lining…by the time his term ends (if he is lucky enough to survive the land deal allegations) endurance will have been stretched to the limits and the people will be clamoring for a change.