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DEL.ICIO.USOffered the opportunity to settle the land dispute with shotguns, the two governors apparently declined
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
This morning, several Georgia newspapers are carrying a Associated Press report that says Gov. Sonny Perdue of Georgia and Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina spent an off-the-calendar Saturday quail hunting in January, weeks before they announced a proposal to build a new port owned by both states.
The price of the expedition, on an 18,000-acre tract in the Carolina low-country, was estimated at $1,000 per hunter for a half-day. There was no word on who paid the bill, or who else was in the hunting party, according to The State newspaper in Columbia, which first published the article.
The deal the two governors’ struck on the port is intended to avert a looming legal battle between the South Carolina State Ports Authority and Georgia. The Ports Authority had filed paperwork to condemn and seize land owned by Georgia, but which sits in South Carolina. Georgia uses the acreage as a site to dump silt dredged from the bottom of the Savannah River.
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By Boomer
March 26, 2007 9:31 AM | Link to this
Too bad Mark Sanford doesn’t shoot like Dick Cheney.
Wow, the much smaller capital city paper in South Carolina breaks the story, while the much bigger capital city paper in Georgia breaks wind.
All the AJC employees are having to re-apply for their current jobs. Hows about you two not even bother.