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DEL.ICIO.USAll is explained: Larry O’Neal presides as reporters barred from floor
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
This is what it’s all about. House Speaker Glenn Richardson is at the well, explaining the ban on reporters on the House floor.
But the presiding officer is Larry O’Neal, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, who was tied to the midnight-hour change to legislation that gave Gov. Sonny Perdue his tax deferral on his Oakie Woods land purchase.
O’Neal didn’t like his press clips.
The rule change has now passed, 132 to 29.
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By RJ
March 21, 2007 9:14 AM | Link to this
O’Neal’s misuse of his authority/ influence on Sonny Perdue’s behalf and the collection of his subsequent reactions to press inquiries about it will come to haunt him sooner than he thinks. Arrogance is a fierce enemy of democracy.