Georgia Legislators Waste Taxpayer Money and Time
I don't know that this sort of thing surprises me anymore...
On Monday, GOP lawmakers announced a united House-Senate effort to — let’s say it — blackmail the state of Florida into permitting vanity car tags that honor University of Georgia alumni.
Otherwise, lawmakers said, they’ll yank the Gator tags just won by an Atlanta group of University of Florida grads from the state Department of Revenue.
House Minority Whip Barry Fleming (R-Harlem), who just happens to be running for Congress and requires support from Athens, is pitching the bill.
Senate President pro tem Eric Johnson (R-Savannah) said he is eager to get hold of the legislation and ram it through his chamber.
“I don’t know that we could yank an existing tag, but we don’t have to renew it. I think that would be what would happen,” Johnson said. “If this bill passes and you can’t get a University of Georgia alumni tag in Georgia, then they would not be able to renew [their] tag.”
I am tempted to call Eric Johnson and Barry Fleming crooks for wasting taxpayer money on such juvenile antics. Is this what we elect these jokers to do??? I guess they are just following the lead of Congress, which seems determined to waste time and money investigating the MLB and the NFL.
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They are just trying to
They are just trying to distract from trying to claim water from the Tennessee River for Georgia.
It's a smoke and mirrors...........
More GA legislature
More GA legislature frivolity, courtesy of morning edition from NPR today.
"There are times, of course, when government can be as frivolous as the games it postures to protect. We had the example not long ago, for instance, of the Georgia House of Representatives actually voting passionately, 151-9, on a resolution to urge the NCAA to establish a college football playoff, all because the dear Georgia Bulldogs didn't make the title game this year. If ever there was a case of, hey, get over it ... "
from http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18919267
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