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DEL.ICIO.USWhy should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, and this bill no breath at all?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It may seem strange that in a year with so little legislation there should have been two competing bills dealing with funding for the arts. But therein lies an artful tale, with as much blood on the floor in the final act as a Verdi opera or a Shakespeare play. This is just an update - we’ll save the longer tale for later.
A bill championed by Sue Weiner, executive director of the Georgia Council for the Arts, didn’t make it past crossover day - the legislative equivalent of folding off-Broadway.
A rival bill, sponsored by Rep. Joe Wilkinson (R-Sandy Springs) and championed by many in the arts community, had a longer run. But it failed to make it on the final Senate Rules calendar, and the word is that Weiner was instrumental in its downfall.
We hear a last-gasp effort to revive the measure was ongoing Thursday afternoon, but it appeared it, too, was about to be folded.
That headline is a play on a line from “King Lear,” by the way. If you didn’t know that, it’s a good argument for this bill.
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