Hat tip to The Political Vine, which points this out:
Governor Sonny Perdue signed an Executive Order today enacting Georgia’s price gouging statute to protect Georgia consumers from unlawful increases in gas prices and other products. The Governor’s Office has received today credible evidence that price gouging has occurred in parts of the state.

John Cole, a contributor at RedState, prepared the following, which I am posting here in toto. In addition to the links below, you can click on the Red Cross banner above.
How this tragedy happened is something that can be resolved later. Right now, though, there is an immense human tragedy unfolding in the Gulf:
Blanco [...]

Evelyn Woods Erickson was born Sunday night. Mother and daughter are doing well and are now home from the hospital.
Thanks so much to all of you who have sent kind emails and notes. I’ll resume here soon.

What affect will this have on the 2006 elections???
Georgia’s average SAT score rose in math and verbal, but that wasn’t enough to lift the state from the basement nationally on the college admissions test.
The average in Georgia was 993, tied with South Carolina for last place among states, the College Board announced Tuesday morning.

“Evelyn Woods Erickson. 7lbs. 1oz. 20 inches. Born at 9:09 p.m. How can one deny God in the face of miracles?” quoth Erick…
We offer our heartiest congratulations to the Ericksons.

Like most of the nation, most of us here at Peach Pundit are keeping our eyes on our neighbors to the west. Our thoughts and prayers are definitely with those who are affected by this disastrous storm.
Additionally, many of our regular readers know that Erick has been expecting a special event in his life. I’m [...]

I’m too tired to write anything worth reading of my own, so I’m going to copy and paste from the AJC.
A law requiring Georgians to show government-issued photo identification in order to vote was approved by the U.S. Justice Department on Friday as opponents immediately vowed a legal challenge.

House Bill 244, which created [...]

Down in Macon, where the city daily exudes more characteristics of a Banana Republic, the Mayor, C. Jack Ellis, has reportedly said he wants to “kick Joe Allen’s ass.” Allen, a County Commissioner, was a deciding vote on county expenditures for a workforce development project, a pet project of Mayor Ellis.
Through spokesman Ron Wildman, [...]

First, thanks to Georgia Daily Digest, which made news surfing this morning VERY easy.
It has to be easy today because labor has begun and I don’t know that I’ll be around much today.
Y’all have fun beating each other up. (Kidding)

He’ll be battling Mac Collins in a new district that leans Republican. Moultrie, by the way, is Saxby Chambliss’s home territory.
A congressman who hopes to help represent Colquitt County after the next election bared his political soul to Moultrie Kiwanians Thursday.
Rep. Jim Marshall is in his second term as U.S. House Representative of the [...]

Perdue has his the campaign trail. He’s trying to make the case that Georgia is better off with the GOP in charnge.
By prioritizing the wants of the people and budgeting accordingly, and
eliminating spending excesses — such as on the state’s surplus of vehicles, more than 2,000 of which have now been auctioned off on [...]

But it is.
Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor said he will stand by his 21-year-old son as he faces the consequences of being behind the wheel in a fatal wreck and a resulting drunken driving charge but said he won’t give up either his current post or his campaign for the governor’s office.
“My first obligation is to [...]

I’ll avoid cheap shots about Jimmy Carter coddling dictators, but this has raised some homestate eyebrows.
Former President Jimmy Carter, one of Georgia’s most famous sons, was the target of scorn, shock and disbelief Thursday for lobbying to save a Connecticut submarine base at the expense of thousands of jobs for his home state.At least one [...]

It appears that Gov. Sonny Perdue’s Chief of Staff John Watson has asserted a strong role in the re-election campaign and is calling the shots. Perdue’s 2002 campaign manager, Scott Rials, has formed his own consulting group and will be working on various statewide campaigns, which are expected to “dovetail” into the governor’s re-election [...]

From Bill Shipp:
Rumors continue to circulate that Republican Robert Lamutt is considering throwing his hat into the race for Secretary of State.
Lamutt, who fell just short in his bid for the GOP nomination for the 6th Congressional District (eventual winner Tom Price defeated Lamutt in a runoff), is said by insiders to have financially recovered [...]