Political Insider

By GC

September 26, 2006 8:17 PM | Link to this

“There’s a Sonny day dawning in Georgia. There will be restoration of the bonds of trust between the people and their elected representatives. The doors of state government will be open to the people.” The words of Sonny Perdue shortly after his astonishing victory in 2002.

What has Gov. Perdue’s tenure given us? (1) The precedent of a sitting Governor fined almost $20,000.00 for ethics violations; (2) The precedent of a sitting Governor granting himself a $100,000.00 tax break by signing a new law just before the tax filing deadline in 2005 that allowed him to defer paying state taxes on a $4 million property sale in Houston County he conducted almost a year earlier; (3) A newly created Office of Inspector General tasked with rooting out corruption and waste in state agencies disgraced for, among other things, failing to conduct thorough and impartial investigations; (4) A law that shields public organization from providing information about how they conduct the peoples’ business, i.e., a law that requires names of donors to UGA foundation be kept secret.

Why would we ever want to go back? Quite frankly, because we now know that what we got is not what we need!

By GodHatesTrash

September 26, 2006 9:46 PM | Link to this

Sonny is a filthy lowlife pekkkerwood - perfect for Georgia.

Trash elects trash.

By Sonny Do Do

September 27, 2006 2:17 AM | Link to this

Thats a better name for Sonny Do. Sonny DoDo because Lying Sonny isn’t worth a crap. Georgia cannot take 4 more years of his underhanded form of Government. He is making money in land deals at Georgia’s expense, Georgia lost 100,000 dollars in taxes he owes by him having a law passed that benefited him. How many Georgians even make 100,000 dollars? No more Sonny day in Georgia for me.

By Hunter...

September 27, 2006 6:58 AM | Link to this

LMAO…I wish I coulda seen the Wendy Saltzman’s face when Sonny fired those shots!…lol…too funny!

Power to the LP in Georgia, we need you folks to fight the fight against the oppressive DEMOPUBLICANS!…in North Carolina, the DEMOPUBLICANS banished the 13,000 registered Libertarians with NO ballot access. What are they afraid of?
Loss of power, or doing the right thing to restore voting civil rights?

By Voter

September 27, 2006 7:21 AM | Link to this

“Dear”??? How condescending can he get?

By Louella

September 27, 2006 8:09 AM | Link to this

I want to know the answer to that question, too. By blowing off a reporter trying to get that information out, Sonny also blew off everyone he serves.

By Laura

September 27, 2006 9:00 AM | Link to this

THE REAL SONNY-BOY Funny how the only other politican that was this pompous and sure of himself got beat—Roy Barnes. Sonny is all about one person—himself and his pocketbook. Eventually, I bet it will catch up with him. Remember those King Roy/Rat commercials??

By Lawrence of Decatur

September 27, 2006 11:13 AM | Link to this

Sonny DID…take a page out of the National Republican playbook. When you don’t want the public to know about something, you just refuse to answer the question. This hiding of information has become epidemic and I wish more reporters would make an attempt to break the secrecy and stonewalling. I’ve lost count of the times that Bush and Company have just refused to answer questions they don’t like.

By Helen

September 29, 2006 4:42 AM | Link to this

SONYDON’T LIST I saw the story on Georgia’s lost children last night. Unbelievable! Sonny don’t care about special needs children; that’s for sure. The Governor should be ashamed. Apparently, he feels he has no accountability when it comes to turning his back on Georgia’s children. He should update his sonnydo list by adding: “Stop the Governor’s inhumane treatment of Georgia’s children.”

By Mom of one of the Kids Featured in Wendy's story last night

September 29, 2006 9:57 AM | Link to this

Does anyone know Mark Taylor’s views on this issue? This would be an awesome time for him to speak out!! Please see the story that caused the uproar-they have video on the website.

http://www.cbs46.com/Global/story.asp?S=5473158

We need to stay united to help our kids! We can make a difference in their lives.

By Rose

September 29, 2006 9:57 AM | Link to this

This is so sad that the kids should have to shoulder the burden for our budget. Our state is falling short when it comes to the children. Special kids have potential and we need to make sure they get their chance to be all that God meant for them to be!

By Joe

September 29, 2006 10:14 AM | Link to this

It is no surprise that Sonny would choose to insult Wendy rahter than to answer her question. I find it interesting that Sonny and his wife have an ad talking about protecting our children while Sonny is busy taking money from Children who need it the most. Sonny’s systematic decimation of approvals for Medicaid waivers has impacted the most vulnerable of our children. Not only that, Sonny is taking away a vital early intervention that could help these children become contributing members of our society. Without these interventions these special needs children will have a much more difficult time acquiring job skills and being able to contribute by having jobs and paying taxes. Sure, in the short term maybe it saves some money, maybe it buys some votes but in the long-term it might create an even greater burden on all of us if these kids grow to be adults dependent on society rather than adults that are self reliant and productive. So, Sonny, which children are you really protecting? All of them or just the “normal” ones whose parents make up a much bigger voting block? A man’s character can be measured by how he treats those that can’t do anything for him or can’t help him. Sonny shows his character every day.

By Tina

September 29, 2006 10:18 AM | Link to this

Governor Perdue’s attitude towards health care for children has just about cost him my vote. I have a seven year old son with autism that lost Medicaid benefits at the end of last year. Thankfully, he was reinstated. Now, we are having to cope with yet another tightening of Medicaid requirements—having to ask for permission if you want more than two hours of a single type of therapy a month and more than four hours of mixed (i.e. OT and speech therapy) a month.

My son’s therapists are willing to fight the battle. Too many therapists, though, either can’t or won’t.

We should not have to get down on our knees and beg for something that is a NEED for our children.

By TonysMom

September 29, 2006 10:27 AM | Link to this

Up until now (and until the LP gets stronger in GA), I’ve tried to support the Rep Party as a means to keep our family values strong. Unfortunatly, Mr. Perdue’s lack of response on this issue is what is going to break the Rep leadership in this state. If I can consider voting Dem for governor, it won’t take much for others to do the same.
Mr. Perdue, even if you did “already comment” on the issue of Medicaid cuts, why not repeat your position? We can’t all catch every single one of your speeches.

By Mom again

September 29, 2006 10:32 AM | Link to this

Just wanted to clarify-our family wasn’t featured in the story. A big thank you to those who were! We are one of the families effected-my son also lost his coverage last year and we are paying for his therapies out of pocket.

As a former foster parent I voted for Sonny last time. As a parent and educator I can promise he won’t be getting my vote this time. And normally I would say I’m a firm Republican. Not this time.

By Rebecca Lake

September 29, 2006 10:32 AM | Link to this

I have just sent the following email to Gov. Perdue:

Dear Governor Perdue:

As the parent of a child who has severe autism, epilepsy, Landau-Kleffner Syndrome, and multiple health issues that include rehabilitation from bilateral brain surgery, I would like to bring to your attention that my son’s therapy hours have been cut back while his physical therapist and speech therapist attempt to get authorization to resume his normal therapy schedule. He is also currently not able to get occupational therapy at all.

The impacts of these cutbacks on my son are loss of skills and regression in his ability to speak, communicate, and function in daily life.

The impacts on the therapists are greatly increased amounts of paperwork which, in effect, deny benefits to our disabled children; make it onerous and difficult for therapists to get paid; discourage therapists from accepting Medicaid because of the delays and paperwork; and loss of up to 50% of their income. The new regulations are in effect denying Medicaid coverage to our disabled children by the backdoor, without bringing it to a vote or public debate.

To try to save money on the backs of our most vulnerable children, their families, and their hard-working, dedicated therapists is shameful. These families are stretched to their limits trying to provide what these children need in order to be less of a burden on society in the long run, and still hold down a job at the same time. You should be supporting them, not picking on the people who have the least free time to defend themselves.

Please take the long view and understand that, as studies have shown, every dollar that is invested now in treatments for these children saves the taxpayer exponential amounts in the future.

Thank you for listening, Best regards, Rebecca Lake

By Mom in McDonough

September 29, 2006 10:36 AM | Link to this

It’s disturbing that Governor Perdue thinks this is an answer. How dare this man think he is above being accountable to the people who elected him. And how DARE HE say he’s all about protecting and helping the children while in the background he’s cutting off services they need. What a short sighted move. These kids that were featured in Ms. Saltzman’s piece stand a better chance of being productive members of society with help now. My mother always said - penny wise - POUND FOOLISH. Well hopefully people won’t be foolish and not send a message to Mr. Perdue about his responsibilities to those who put him in office. Now THAT would be as FOOLISH as not taking care of our children - our FUTURE.

By Jeff

September 29, 2006 10:37 AM | Link to this

As a child advocate who has personally seen the devastating impact of these cuts, I want answers as well. How can he believe we don’t deserve answers to questions involving our most vunerable citizens, our children?

By Jerry Grasso

September 29, 2006 11:13 AM | Link to this

I have said repeatedly, that the cuts make very little sense long term. Republicans are all about capitalism….but many of the middle of the road kids, like my son, can become white collar workers - thus adding higher tax revenue to the base in the future…this has to be looked at holistically beyond just a ‘cut here or there’ to move a decimal point one-onehundredths-of-a-point in 06. The ramifications go well beyond that…but what am I saying? What politician looks beyond his or her term?

The therapies aren’t a drain on resources…hopefully, the parents make the time, effort and OUT OF POCKET MONEY to help their kids want their kids to lead frutiful lives…and this includes going to college and making $$ in the future.

On another note - talk about a blast from the past…calling a woman ‘Dear’. Man, this guy just wants to be seen as a politican from the stone age.

By justadad

September 29, 2006 11:25 AM | Link to this

As a parent of one of the children featured last night, I don’t know if I am more angered or hurt by the Governor’s attitude. It truly is a case of “don’t worry about the little guys, they can’t do anything to fight back”. I, too, voted for Sonny, hoping for the best. His actions on this matter (along with a few others) is seriously making me reconsider my voting preference in the upcoming election.

I agree with the earlier parent—we ARE NOT ASKING for handouts, rather trying to be responsible parents and raise children that become contibuting members of society.

We have been denied once, are on appeal, and see the impact that these “small changes” are having on getting basic services. Rather than streamlining the paperwork process to maximize the potential gains to the kids, they are chossing to slam the therapists with extra paperwork. They are requiring recertification of need every month or 90 days in addition to annual detailed reviews. The kids that are in this group have lifelong struggles—their conditions are not going to go away.

Please make sure you fax the Governor (since he doesn’t want to talk to us directly…..)

Thank you.

By sara

September 29, 2006 11:44 AM | Link to this

Sonny Perdue reminds me of a long dead corrupt politician - Huey Long. Long remembered for his feather his own nest policies and remembered in history for how he did that.

Sonny - where is the state money for Medicaide that needed to match federal dollars brought to the state? Where were the federal dollars spent? How dare you unilaterally cut Medicaide for the most in need and set non-medical people to decide who and what therapies are needed??

Where are your family values that you boast about? Or are those values only for the “typical” person and not for thhose GA residents who have needs outside of the the norm?

How dare you boast of a surplus in the state vaults while causeing parents to worry as where they are going to get money for the basic human needs of their children and pay taxes in GA . *Are our children collateral damage in your war on the underserved? *

By D

September 29, 2006 11:58 AM | Link to this

It’s an outrage that our system cannot be used to help children who have lifelong illnesses. However, we continue to make a business out of the prison system. The bottom line then reflects that we secure, maintain and propetuate inmates and leave our most desparate citizens in the community without life giving assistance. What a backwards way up.

By Kathy

September 29, 2006 12:10 PM | Link to this

I am the proud mother of a 15 year old boy who has a genetic muscle disease and is also mentally challenged. We have no idea what his future hold since the doctors know very little about his disease. We waited a very long time to see him walk for the first time and he walked for a few years. He is no longer capable of standing up or walking without his walker, yet every morning he musters up the strength to stand up as best he can to hug me good morning and show me how tall he is. Remember watching your child take his or her first steps, now imagine counting the days till you see them take their last steps. We are waiting for his new wheelchair to be delivered and it is only a matter of time before he will never walk again.

It’s unfortunate that you don’t feel our critically ill and disabled children qualify to have what is rightfully theirs. I think your attitude would be different if this were your child or grandchild in need of this medicaid program. You would be fighting just as hard as we all are to get what you need to help your child. The stress of dealing with a critically ill or disabled child alone is almost more than we can bare and then we still have to deal with the normal everyday issues in life. The last thing we need to worry about how we will pay for their care if we have lost or are worried about losing this medicaid waiver. We need to be able to spend our time caring for our chilren and families not fighting to get the help that they deserve. Remember we didn’t ask for our children to have these illnesses, God chose us because he knew we were strong enough care for them while they go through the tramatic times in their lives. We all want the same thing that everyone wants for their own children. We want them to have the best chance at surviving and succeeding in life. Please help our children by getting this medicaid waiver back to what it was created for in the first place.

By Kathy / Tory’s Mom

By Michaela's MOM

September 29, 2006 12:37 PM | Link to this

I can not bare to hear you advertise “no child left behind” when you are making a conscious decision to leave these children who need some extra help…* BEHIND!!!!!* You and your wife are such devoted foster parents, how can you look into those babies faces and know that YOU are deliberately denying them future care if they were to need it? If you are so confidant that the dicision you made is the right one and you deserve my vote then hold a town hall meeting and look us parents in the face and explain to us why you are right. Right now you do not have my vote.

By Sandee Rogers

September 29, 2006 12:37 PM | Link to this

I writing commenting on the AJC Political Insider blog regarding Gov. Perdue comments to Wendy Saltzman (CBS Reporter for the Medicaid Story last night) at a recent press conference. I am a mother with two special needs children and the governor has continued to ignore our opinions regarding the severe cuts that have occurred to Medicaid, which gravely affects our children. We need to get him to listen.

Thank you for your time - Sandee ROoers

By David Freels

September 29, 2006 1:50 PM | Link to this

My wife and I are parents of a brain-injured child who’s on Medicaid due to his circumstance. In 1999 we learned of a treatment that reverses brain-injury. (See [http://oceanhbo.com/client/studies/studies.htm] for before/after video of other brain-injured children who have received this permanent, noninvasive, safe FDA-approved therapy.) We have fought Georgia Medicaid since 1999 to get this treatment covered for our son and have won four court decisions. State senator Renee Unterman told me Georgia Medicaid revised the Katie Beckett eligibility criteria specifically because of our case, which ironically has resulted in the removal of 2000 children who would have all benefitted from this same treatment—which would also benefit adults with strokes, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s, Alzheimers, traumatic brain-injury, etc. If the state is genuinely interested in saving money, they would utilize this therapy as hundreds of $ millions (or more) could be saved annually. Why is it that government officials so arrogantly refuse to employ intelligence in their decision-making?

By Craig Caldwell

September 29, 2006 2:16 PM | Link to this

I can’t believe that someone who says he supports education and Georgia’s children would do something so harmful to our children who need the most help. As a special education teacher this really infuriates me. I will no longer vote for Governor Perdue. I am a staunch republican but things like this make me want to leave the republican party all together. Why can he give every teacher in the state of Georgia 100 dollars for supplies but can’t take care of our children? This doesn’t add up for me. If he would pay his own taxes and not legislate them away that would help too!

By Shirley B.

September 29, 2006 3:15 PM | Link to this

With such a short time until election day, it might be better to forget about Perdue and concentrate on educating Mr.Mark Taylor in the serious healthcare needs of our children. We might then be moving in a more useful direction.

By Jarrod

September 29, 2006 4:00 PM | Link to this

It isn’t just children’s healthcare - but all Americans - Health Savings accounts are just another way for the upper tier to set aside some of their high pay to help them pay their medical expenses not covered by their employer health plans. That does nothing for the average worker who has divided his meager paycheck down to the bone and still can’t meeet copays, deductibles and have less benefits. There is nothing left to put into a 401k or into an HSA. Health Care Savings accounts does nothing to help the elderly and our seniors to pay expenses Medicare doesn’t pay or prescriptions. None of these health insurance solutions go far enough nor been thought out very well for all Americans, all ages. By the way, have any of our seniors hit their donut hole yet and how’s that working for your pocket book? Yeah, why is it intelligent government officials arrogantly refuse to employ intelligent thinking in health care coverage solutions?

By Robert

September 29, 2006 4:03 PM | Link to this

Our family lives in Atlanta and our son has already lost 2 therapists because of the draconian paperwork DCH is requiring of providers. Our families are under enough stress in trying to raise our children. We do not need the government agency charged with providing these children services, compounding that stress with mountains of meaningless paperwork. Use some of that surplus Perdue is running ads about and prevent any further erosion of services. To insult a reporter doing her job in such a meanspirited way really shows us the true Sonny.

By CLS

September 29, 2006 10:33 PM | Link to this

Mr. Perdue do you not realize that you are up for re-election.

Mr. Perdue do you not realize that children with special needs CANNOT get insurance coverage due to pre-existing conditions and those that had insurance at birth will lose it due to caps on insurance coverage. Mr. Perdue I am happy for you that you make enough in a year to cover these type expenses if you had a child with a disability but most of us do not. It is sad that we parents have to be in between a rock and a hard place. We would love to have regular insurance for our kids but we will be denied and now to have some kids being denied by the state, COME ON!! If you are going to cut funding then why can’t you create a law where insurance companies must except us. I know that this is true that companies won’t take us. I worked with Russ Toal(sp) the insurance commissioner of the state of GA in 1992. He checked because he couldn’t believe that we could be denied health care when he checked for himself he found it to be true and suggested Medicaid with SSI to us then we opened our own business and made too much for the Medicaid where SSI is attached. We didn’t know of Katie Beckett till we lost the Medicaid after worrying about all the needs our son would have. And now years later we have to still worry every year that when re-evaluated our son may be denied. We are just denied all the way around. Others can pay insurance premiums for insurance we don’t have that option we must pay out of pocket which is more than most people can or could pay out of pocket and now you want us to believe that you can do nothing to help us keep the deeming waiver as an option. Come on the state should help us in someway. Remember it is re-election time and republican or not I will not vote for you after what you have done.

By Jay

September 29, 2006 10:50 PM | Link to this

I am the parent of three children. Two have physical and cognitive disabilities. It is hard to watch our Governor take steps back to a past of neglect and indifferance toward our children with disabilities. Cuts to the kattie Beckett wavier will set our state back years. Failing to provide needed help to our young children now will lead to long term care costs that will further burnden GA tax payers. Full support of the Kattie Beckett program must be put on Sonny’s Do List.

By Lorie

September 30, 2006 10:59 AM | Link to this

Yes, we have health insurance. It’s self insured. No, it does not cover my son’s disability of autism. The diagnosis and therapies are all excluded. No, the school cannot provide for all his needs. Until states start pressuring the federal government to close the loophole that allows self insured insurance companies to be excluded from state mandates, nothing that is passed in the state will be covered by our health plans. Therefore all we have left is the Katie Beckett waiver. I’ve been trying to get my son on it for the last 2 years. Now he’s officially “failing to thrive.” Now unless someone comes up with a good plan, I may just abstain from voting this year….

By K

October 2, 2006 11:34 AM | Link to this

Georgia Supports Us or Supports Us Not? My daughter is 19 and will need support the rest of her life. Does the Governor support her? Fix Medicaid by correcting management and corruption - not by taking services away from the vulnerable recipient. Clean House, Mr. Perdue. Join families and friends of children and adults with disabilities, Nov 4 at 9:30am for a rally at the State Capitol to show support for healthcare issues!

By M L

October 3, 2006 9:40 PM | Link to this

I am a speech therapist working in a somewhat rural community in Georgia. I worked in the school system for almost 10 years. I left because of the low pay, the enormous amount of paperwork, and the lack of ‘affect’ we were able to make on a child in need (due to high caseloads and low staffing). I opened a private practice 15 years ago and have LOVED my job as a speech therapist getting to know the children and their families. Serving the children in a one-on-one basis is so much more rewarding! I have respect and pride in the families of these children as they have lost their jobs, lost money, reduced time and resources for their other children and themselves…all to provide the therapies so desperately needed at an early age in order for the children to develop to their full potential. I have been proud to serve the children of this state through the state-funded program. Two years ago, we speech therapists took at 40% cut in pay to help defray the Medicaid budget. We then endured cuts in allowed billable units of service. My caseload still bulged and I struggled to find room for all those who called for help. We were faced with a ‘new’ Medicaid with ‘new’ software that didn’t work; then a web portal that was nearly unstaffed was introduced and I had ZERO pay for 6 weeks while the ‘system’ was worked out. I never let the children suffer. I kept them all on my caseload and continued to have faith that our government would get it all worked out. Eventually, they did.
Now, things have gone from bad to worse. Introduction of not one, but THREE CMOs for the children with Medicaid assistance! I applied to all three over a year ago. I’ve gotten ONE contract back.
In the meantime, the speech therapist’s community was assured our rates would be restored ‘somewhat’ on July 1st, 2006. But in the eleventh hour, the powers that be decided that they would put this increase in reimbursement rates off until January 1, 2007. Within 30 days of that decision, the same powers decided to limit the number of units we could bill for each child. AND they DECREASED the reimbursement rate to an even lower rate than we had 15 years ago! The ‘prior approval’ needed for the number of units billed for therapy was introduced. There are so many PAs to be processed, Medicaid can’t process them in time! So now, children are being cut off with only 4 to 8 visits a month (as opposed to 10 per month prior to this recent change).
Who suffers? The children. The parents and families of these children. The therapists.
Who gains? Sonny. The politicians. the ‘big business’ people. My full schedule is now down to less than 20 children. Those 20 are being reduced to half the number of visits per month. My overhead is eating up my salary. I can’t stay afloat the way things are now. Please continue to fight! Where is Mark Taylor and why isn’t he helping us? Is Sonny so confident of his re-election that he doesn’t care? What will the next generation do? Why don’t they police some of those income-based Medicaid recipients who are walking around with cell phones and complaining about their satelite television service? Why is the money being taken from helpless children who are dependent on us to make their lives every thing they can be? And what is the small business owner supposed to do when faced with this situation? Why are we paying the SCHOOLS Medicaid money to serve the children covered by Medcaid when the schools already get both federal and state funds for each one of these children and for each one of their special needs? I pray to God for relief from this crisis. I pray things will change for the better soon. Without that positive change, the children in my community at least, will be without another option for services. Stick together! Be heard! Let’s do this!!!

By Christine

October 4, 2006 9:10 AM | Link to this

Mr. Sonny Perdue, I hear of all your Sonny Do Lists and there is not one comment of helping the children in the state of GA. Alot of us hard working tax paying citizens do have insurance, but not all of us are fortunate enough to have insurance that will pay for what our children need. I have a son who has CYSTIC FIBROSIS which is a LIFE THREATNING ILLNESS WITH NO “KNOWN” CURE. You should take a minute to read about this condition and educate yourself on what this does to a child. Cystic Fibrosis only gets worse as the children get older and more medication is needed to keep them alive. Some of these children need double lung transplants/pancreas transplants etc by the time they are teens and some even younger. The way alot of us views the system is we have to or our children have to be on their death beds before you will help us. Now we are in the process of an appeal for the Katie Beckett Medicaid which has been going on for a year and 1/2. What is the explanation behind this? We as parents are being punished because we CHOOSE to do the right thing by keeping our children and WANTING our children to stay at home so we can take care of them. I would NEVER give my child to the state for what to become another number in the system. You can not even help take care of them now! Lets not even go to where we are allowing illegals come in and take what is ours or the people who do not even try to get out and work can get all the assistance and help from our SO CALLED GOVERNMENT. Let me just reassure you that you will NOT have my vote and I am sure the more people who see and hear what you DO NOT SAY will feel the same way. Let me ask what ever happened to “FOR THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE”? I think it has become for the Government By the Government.

SHAME ON YOU!

By Another Dad

October 4, 2006 10:33 AM | Link to this

Sonny is dismantling the fabric that makes this America, equal access to a minimum quality of life as provided thru healthcare and education. I guess he figures people with disabilities can’t vote. Only the healthy will get an education, for awhile anyway.

Why would he worry, 20 point lead and the Dems feebly nominated another overweight good ol’ boy. Now we’re going to make Sonny a lame duck governor and he can finish the job of putting Georgia back in the dark ages. Your children won’t get healthcare or the therapy that allows them to walk, talk and tie their shoes, but at least you won’t have to worry about homosexuals getting married.

By Doris Smith

October 4, 2006 2:21 PM | Link to this

Sonny, the disabled children of Georgia need your support. They are crying out to you. Are you hard-hearted or have you just grown cold over the past few years? There are many other areas in the budget that could be cut without nearly the devastating impact these Medicaid cuts will have both now and in the future. Prior comments have eloquently detailed the problems associated with these cuts so I won’t cover the same ground again.

Resurrect your conscience—if God has any influence in your life, His Word says “Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that in heaven their angels always see the face of My Father who is in heaven.” Not politically correct? Do you have the courage to take a moral stand and do what’s right?

How about this? You reap what you sow. Do you care? Why put the burden of tax cuts on the small shoulders of innocent children?

Jean

By Nan Grogan Orrock

October 4, 2006 3:03 PM | Link to this

Erosion of health services is the hallmark of Sonny Perdue’s reign. He removed funding for 10,000 slots that provided pregnant low income women with pre-natal care, which will result in more Georgia children being born with disabilities. He kicked 60,000 kids off Peachcare by changing the rules. Meanwhile he is gifted w. a $100,000 personao tax relief special clause. Voting against Sonny on Nov. 7 and urging our friends to vote against him is the way to send the message that HE is not good for children and not good for Georgia. We do have a choice, so let’s exercise it!

By Cindy

October 10, 2006 11:43 AM | Link to this

Sonny, shame on you.What ever happened to do under others as you would have them do unto you.You need to try taking care of a special needs child for one year, and see what we are fighting for. You have no ideal the wear and tear of worry of having a medical bill come that medicaid won’t pay for.Come to the rally and see the faces your hurting, remember these children are your future and you are responsible for your actions.