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DEL.ICIO.USQuacking up: The first to call Perdue a lame duck is…..
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Radio voice Tim Bryant, with WGAU in Athens, has challenged our statement that Senate President pro tem Eric Johnson was the first to refer to re-elected Gov. Sonny Perdue as a lame duck.
Bryant says state Rep. Bob Smith (R-Watkinsville) beat the Senate president to the phrase by hours, and that he has the sound. This is what Smith said:
“The governor got reelected here — he’s now a lame duck governor, and quite frankly, I think Speaker [Glenn] Richardson, Speaker pro tem [Mark] Burkhalter, and Majority Leader [Jerry] Keen, they’re going to work very hard to see that the House does command the budget this time.”
This election has turned Republicans feisty.
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By Grady L. Cornish
November 10, 2006 12:57 PM | Link to this
Georgia not only has a lame duck Governor but also one who was impressively re-elected under a cloud of possible ethical bankruptcy/ criminal misconduct. We have a nice Repub. Lt. Gov., a Repub. controlled State Legislature,eight Republican US Reps and two Repub US Senators under a Democratically controlled Congress. I am eagerly observing the new situation to see what bacn Georgia gets, when, and how.