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DEL.ICIO.USA last word, and a last needle in the Bobby Kahn doll
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
After the dismissal of the ethics complaint against House Speaker Richardson, Senate President pro tem Eric Johnson (R-Savannah) unleashed his vocabulary on state Democratic chairman Bobby Kahn, who filed the complaint.
Said Johnson: “The Joint Legislative Ethics Committee must not allow itself to be used for partisan political purposes. The fact that the Chairman of a political party makes vague accusations against a leader of the other party on the weekend before the inauguration and the opening day of the session clearly indicates the motivation behind the charge. It should insult the people of Georgia and embarrass those who take the political process seriously.”
But legislators shouldn’t take the process so seriously that they’re prohibited from making one last, nearly hidden jab at the Democratic provocateur.
The letter announcing the dismissal was addressed to Kahn, as “chairman, Democrat Party of Georgia.”
Not the Democratic Party of Georgia. It’s a slight that Republicans love to use.
Or maybe it was just a typo.
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By R
January 19, 2007 1:52 PM | Link to this
Year 2008 - Overheard in Alabama
“Thank God for Georgia”
Way to go RepubliCONS and “All Hail” yer leader. Sonny Perdoofus.
By Cosmo
January 19, 2007 2:50 PM | Link to this
R, You are a moron!!!!
By SharonH
January 19, 2007 3:30 PM | Link to this
*R-Year 2008 - Overheard in Alabama
“Thank God for Georgia”
Way to go RepubliCONS and “All Hail” yer leader. Sonny Perdoofus.*
Dear God, that’s too funny. R, I remember my father saying that when I was growing up. Oh how the times have changed. Yeah, THANKS Republicons. Sheesh, shaking my head in disgust
By R
January 19, 2007 4:17 PM | Link to this
I am crying in my cappuccino Cosmo. You are so hateful.
By e. t.
January 19, 2007 5:28 PM | Link to this
If any public monies were used to investigate this complaint, Bobby Kahn ought to be made to pay. This was about as blatant an example of dirty politics as there has been in Georgia in a long time.
By RJ
January 19, 2007 6:51 PM | Link to this
Hey folks, Bobby Kahn is a lawyer and experienced politician, who is familiar with the rules of evidence, perhaps not the rules of the Joint Legislative Ethics Committee. I fully expect Bobby Kanh to re-file the complaint in accordance with the rules of the Joint Legislative Ethics Committe.
I will be very surprised if Eric Johnson’s comments are in fact the last on this matter. If there is a re-file of the allegations, Mr. Johnson’s rebuke will have a chilling effect on his credibility as Chair.
Time will tell.