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DEL.ICIO.USThey support Mark Taylor, but anonymously
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Moultrie Observer has a strange piece up on its web site. At a local Democratic function over the weekend, several state law enforcement officers stood up and pledged their support to Mark Taylor in the race for governor. But they wouldn’t give their names to the newspaper, “saying they were afraid Gov. Sonny Perdue would fire them.”
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By Cosmo
October 3, 2006 10:59 AM | Link to this
That is a load of poop! They just didn’t want to embarass themselves by admitting they support Taylor - it would show their lack of intelligence.
By GLC
October 3, 2006 9:15 PM | Link to this
Well… I support Taylor not so much because I am intellengent but informed. Please take note.
“There’s a Sonny day dawning in Georgia. As businesses are unleashed and grow, jobs will return. As Georgia recovers, new employers will flood the state.” The words of Sonny Perdue shortly after his astonishing victory in 2002. Gov. Perdue has put our tax dollars with those words…he has given Georgia’s corporate interests over a billion in tax cuts.
An analysis by the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, a nonaligned research group, reveals that Sonny has not been as generous when it comes to the average Georgian. During his tenure we have seen: (1) Georgia’s unemployment rate in 2005 spiked to its highest level since 1993 and exceed the Southern rate for the first time in 25 years; (2) Georgia’s poverty rate increased to 14.4 percent (or 1.2 million) in 2005, placing us among four other states to experience a significant increase in poverty from 2003-2004 to 2004-2005; (3)The 2004-2005 median household income remain $3,000 below pre-2001 recession levels; (4) Georgia’s uninsured rate increased to 18.1 percent, placing us among one of only eight states to experience a measurable increase in the uninsured population;
Why would we want to go back? Quite frankly, because we now know that what we got is not what we need to grow Georgia.