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DEL.ICIO.USPut it on. Put it all on.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
They roasted Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle last night.
All right, they didn’t roast him. They held a match under his feet until his toes got warm.
Since the collapse of the great Cracker Crumble, that irreverent and often ribald fund-raiser for the Georgia Press Association, the place of humor in local politics has been a touchy thing.
Tuesday night’s $100-a-seat cause was sufficient — TEAM Georgia raises money for highway safety initiatives and a scholarship for children who are victims of drunk drivers.
But it’s clear that even Senate chairmen, with bills and causes of their own at stake, were hesitant to poke fun at their boss in public. A non-politician, local radio voice Rhubarb Jones, got the largest laugh.
Listing what Cagle must avoid if he’s to become governor in 2010, Jones included, “No secret divorces in Paulding County.” Not something any lawmaker with legislation in play at the state Capitol is at liberty to say.
The lieutenant governor himself may have put on the most entertaining show. He walked in with a Great Dane — no, we’re not sure why — and immediately stripped off his shirt and tie to reveal a referee’s zebra togs.
Because he thinks of himself as the peacemaker between House Speaker Glenn Richardson and Gov. Sonny Perdue, that’s why.
During dinner, Cagle stepped behind a video screen to change back into a shirt and tie. But the screen was backlit. So the audience — the portion that was paying attention — was treated to the silhouette of the lieutenant governor doing a reverse strip-tease. Into a brown suit.
Take our word for it. Cagle may be many things, but he’s no Gypsy Rose Lee.
Still, for morality’s sake, it is somehow an encouraging thing to watch a politician put his clothes on in public.
Comments
By Obamamania
February 27, 2008 11:29 AM | Link to this
What, did they have a happy hour right B4 the fundraiser?
You 2 guys are really lots of fun. Rhubarb Jones is a funny, funny man.
Camera to me, face locked in a vacant poker faced daze, slowly walking across the speakers platform and out of the room.
Cagle. Oh let me at him.