House shoots down effort to reconsider billboard measure

The Georgia House of Representatives still backs the billboards.

A request to reconsider last week’s approval of a bill that would allow clear-cutting of trees in front of billboards went down in flames Monday, 104-56.

Last week’s vote was the first time -- after weighing decades of similar proposals -- that the House sided with signs over trees. Black Democrats appeared to be the deciding faction that got this year’s bill approved and sent to the state Senate for consideration.