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DEL.ICIO.USHow peace came to Belfast before it came to Atlanta
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle described the situation to reporters on Wednesday.
“Here are two individuals that were arch-enemies, and they came together to form this new government about peace,” he said.
“You could sense that here were two individuals that had an awful lot of things that they disagreed on, but their focus was really to unite their country around peace,” Cagle said. “To do that, they had to say, these are the things that we can agree on. We have people depending upon a stable economy, that are depending upon a safe environment in which they can raise their kids.”
Gov. Sonny Perdue and House Speaker Glenn Richardson? Alas, no. Merely Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness, the leaders of the Protestant-Catholic partnership government in Northern Ireland.
Cagle was on the state trade mission to Europe, but left early and had just returned home. Perdue finishes it out this week.
But Cagle did say he and the governor had some conversations about the melt-down in the Legislature this session.
“We did have an opportunity to converse. I don’t know that the situation has improved a lot,” Cagle said. “I think you’ll see the governor most likely reaching out to both the Senate and the House, to try to find some common ground, particularly on budgetary issues.”
Cagle, by the way, hadn’t heard of the furor Vice President Dick Cheney had stirred up in Washington by declaring that he was no longer a member of the executive branch.
Even so, Cagle was asked whether lieutenant governor, who presides over the Senate but is next in line to succeed the governor, is fish or fowl.
“I kind of straddle the fence,” Cagle admitted. “I guess my salary’s paid as an executive branch member.”
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