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DEL.ICIO.USHouse to Sonny: Why meet at all?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Politeness was breaking out all over today. Kind of like the flu.
Here’s the official, courtly response from the Republican leadership of the House to Gov. Sonny Perdue’s afternoon solicitation to 180 House members, asking them for the most convenient date to begin a special session.
The reply from the House can be translated thusly: If you’ll tell us what the session is about, we’ll give you a few dates. And really, why don’t we just move the money around and forget about the whole thing?
Below is the reply, officially from House Majority Whip Barry Fleming, but with the names of all House leaders attached:
From: Barry Fleming
To: Ed Holcomb
CC: Cathy Holtzclaw
Sent: Thu May 03 15:54:45 2007
Subject: RE: Input on Special Session
Dear Ed,
Thank you for your email regarding the best date for the special session to begin.
While we would hope we could avoid a costly special session by discussing how any budget problems could be resolved without one, if we are to meet in special session the best starting date would likely depend on what was contained in the call.
If you would share with us the specific subject matters with which we will be dealing, we can provide you the requested input on the best starting date.
If you would like to discuss how we might avoid a special session and attempt to resolve any budget concerns by other means, we would be very willing to speak with you also about that.
Thank you. We look forward to working together to do what is best for the citizens of Georgia.
Glenn Richardson
Mark Burkhalter
Jerry Keen
Barry Fleming
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By aaron Humes
May 4, 2007 10:04 AM | Link to this
Is Perdue on acid?
By Glenn, Mark, Jerry & Barry
May 4, 2007 10:12 AM | Link to this
Yes!
By Sam Sludge
May 4, 2007 2:08 PM | Link to this
Hey Sunshine,
Get out of your fat a** and start acting like a Chief Executive….first, you need to listen to the people….right thinking fiscal conservatives……they have some excellent ideas on how to extricate you and the Speaker and the LtGov. from this budget mess:
Guess what Sunshine, everybody then wins and most importantly, Georgia taxpayers win!
Now, go and do!