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DEL.ICIO.USOn the Road to Reform at DOT
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Department of Transportation might need to get ready for some “reforming,” based on Gov. Sonny Perdue’s State of the State speech and enthusiastic support from Senate Republicans.
“He said what needed to be said,” said Sen. Chip Rogers (R-Woodstock) Senate Majority Leader. “We’re in historic times with respect to a revenue dip. We have to re-organize government and make it leaner.”
After leaving a Senate Republican caucus meeting following the governor’s speech, the two top Senate leaders had their hymnals on the same page about the need to reform the state’s Department of Transportation.
“We re-organized the Department of Driver Services, and it was a success,” Rogers said. Perdue is looking at a different way of delivering DOT services, Rogers said. “We’ve got to take a look at that.”
In his speech, Perdue said his administration “will continue reforming DOT.”
“Once I feel certain we can deliver transportation value to Georgia citizens, I will support responsible measures to raise additional revenues,” Perdue said.
Sen. Tommie Williams (R-Lyons) president pro tem of the Senate agreed with the idea of reforming DOT. “It’s been very lethargic through the years,” he said.
Talk of department reform did not impress Senate minority leader Robert Brown (D-Macon) who said Perdue was slim on details for fixing the state’s transportation woes.
“Apparently, he doesn’t have a transportation plan,” Brown said of the governor. “That was the big gap in his speech.”
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