What's up with Gov. Sonny Perdue of Georgia? Heard snippet on NPR..

[MnFats]

about him caving in to oil interests...true?

[CottonBear]

1. He rescinded the GA gas tax for Sept. Then he cancelled 2 days of school

in order to "save gas" by not running school buses. He caused massive panic and parental work schedule disruption. Parents drove all over the place in their huge SUVs using even more gas and many parents had to take off of work because they did not have day care.

Oh yeah, right before Katrina, he declared an "energy emergency" and caused a massive one day gas panic which resulted in statewide price gouging (can you say $6 per gallon?)

:grr: He is a supreme idiot.

CB, pissed off GA Democrat

[left hand man]

4. guess what else? UGA employees got extra 16 hours vacation time

To let them stay home with the ankle biters. What did THAT cost?

[CottonBear]

11. That is news to me and I live in Athens. Damn. The cost will come out

of the UGA budget, I'm sure. :(

CB, Disgruntled UGA alum and Athens resident

[RepublicanElephant]

2. local station wsb-tv reporting...

...ol' sonny-boy closed schools so farmers would have enough diesel to harvest crops...

this after a meeting with big agri-business lobbyists.

sonny doesn't fall too far from the corrupt dubya tree.

[left hand man]

3. I don't know about oil interests -- but---

I do know that he is a licensed Veterinarian,and an astute politician.
He was on the PSC(public service commission) and pushed for(and got) deregulation of natural gas in Ga.Caused gas prices to soar.
Recently closed schools for 2 days to "conserve fuel".Turns out he was conserving fuel so the large South Ga. farms would have Diesel to harvest crops.
Pretty much the typical political whore.
My rant.My .02 worth

[Iris]

5. Yep. We're all going to be lovin' the natural gas dereg. this winter.

All this because the renecks had to "get out the vote" over a stupid flag.

[left hand man]

8. oh shit,the flag! another open sore on Sonny!

what a political whore(pardon my French)

[CottonBear]

12. I don't know if he's licensed but I do know he's never practiced Vet Med.

How do I know this? One of my best friends is a retired Vet School professor who taught Sonny Boy at UGA. What's more, my friend recently spoke with Perdue (about water quality and stream habitat preservation) at a citizens "listening session" in our community. Did you know that our recently resigned FDA commissioner, Lester Crawford, was a Repub. UGA vet school PhD (pharmacology) grad? He was a poor student and is a political hack and a Republican shill. Both men sully the reputation of UGA, IMHO.

I met Perdue when he was running for governor. He asked for my vote and I told him that I vote Democratic, Green and Independent but that I never vote Republican. He said he was really more of a populist. Yeah, right. I said "good luck with the campaign." See ya. I detest Perdue. What a dimwit.

[KG]

6. pandering scum. used returning the stars and bars to the state flag to get

elected to office. sure did judge constituency well, tho.

[CatWoman]

9. and he went back on his promise about the flag

and pissed a whole bunch of Bubbas off!!

[MnFats]

7. OK, thanks. At least it's a relief to know we're not the only ones..

...with a weasely, nakedly ambitious governor. (reference to Gov. timmy Pawlenty, who wants sooooo badly to be on a national ticket...)

[alphafemale]

10. We hope to be calling him "Former" Governor

My pick is Cathy Cox.

[CottonBear]

13. I've met Cathy and I used to like her prior to the Diebold debacle. n/t

[alphafemale]

14. People are working on the paper-ballot thing in GA

I think Cathy Cox is very electable.

And much preferable to Purdue.

Or Mark Taylor, her democratic opponent...for that matter.

[CottonBear]

15. I've met Taylor as well and had a long talk with him.

I don't know who to support. All I know is that Ralph Reed should NEVER EVER be elected to a state office. He's running for Lt. Gov.