Rep. Steve Davis wants opinions on the budget issue:
The amended Fiscal Year 07 budget spends a state surplus of $700 million dollars. Items such as new patrol cars for the State Patrol’s aging fleet; $11 million in relief for parts of Georgia hit by recent tornadoes; construction money for the Chattahoochee Nature Center, the National [...]

But this is critically necessary. The hurricanes of 2005 should remind us of that when gas spikes after the one line between Louisiana and the Georgia area shut down.

Legislation to remove hurdles that make it harder for petroleum pipeline companies to condemn private land near existing lines eventually could affect a large swath of [...]

I took the certificate program in legal writing at Mercer. Good to see it being recognized.

Mercer University’s legal writing program at the Walter F. George School of Law ranks No. 1 in the country, according to new rankings released Friday by U.S. News & World Report.
The ranking is published in the magazine’s 2008 edition [...]

Today’s Wooten:
Voters who lived 36 years ago in Fulton and DeKalb gave their consent to impose a one-cent transportation tax and to use it to buy bus and train service, as opposed to, say, improving roads or adding capacity. Other counties chose the latter.
I love it how he can’t escape, even for a paragraph, from [...]

Despite the best efforts of the AJC to turn me against the City of Atlanta, let me say in front of God and Decaturguy: “I love Atlanta.”
The Final Four (which I think surpasses the Super Bowl as the greatest sporting event this side of a test match between India and Pakistan) is in Atlanta this [...]

From the AJC

U.S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-Ga.) will hold a town hall meeting from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Monday, April 2, at the Henry County Government Building, 140 Henry Parkway, McDonough
All 3rd Congressional District constituents are invited to attend and ask questions. Topics will include the Iraq war spending bill, which sets a timetable for [...]

Friends, I realize this is not related to Georgia or to politics, but you must go here. GO THERE NOWWWWW!!!!
You’ll thank me.
Oh, and the El Nino answer (go there to know what I’m talking about), you really, really need to read the whole thing, just don’t be drinking coffee while doing so. It’s [...]

That is what we should be asking.

DeKalb County Chief Executive Officer Vernon Jones will hold a U.S. Senate campaign kick-off April 3.
Jones, who has toyed for months with announcing his plans to run for the office, circulated an announcement online. Jamie Gray, a volunteer with his campaign, confirmed the event will be from 6 p.m. [...]

From the Gwinnett Daily Post
ATLANTA - An uphill fight to give Georgia counties more say over annexation may have survived its toughest hurdle.
Toward the end of a marathon “Crossover Day” session, the House passed compromise legislation Tuesday night that would take away cities’ power to veto adverse decisions in annexation cases while limiting the reasons [...]

Mike Coan is not happy
“There are so many things we did right and for someone to play politics with it is disheartening,” Rep. Mike Coan, R-Lawrenceville, said at Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce’s town hall meeting. “I get angry because it’s not the right thing to do. It’s a raping of the process.”
And more….
Coan, a [...]

She’ll be the new President of Young Harris College. That’s terrific news.

From his press release:
Erik M. Underwood, former candidate for the Georgia House of Representatives (District 55), is announcing his intent to run for the 10th District Congressional Seat recently vacated by the passing of Congressman Charlie Norwood, Friday, March 30, 2007 10:00 a.m. at Shanhill Sweets located at 2124 Central Avenue.
Someone will need to explain [...]

You heard it here first, folks!

The Political Insider provides us with this potential taxpayer nightmare.

ntil a few weeks ago, the state Department of Corrections had four credit cards with monthly limits of $1 million each.
News of the cards, and 1,130 others with lower limits taken out by the department, came to light at a House budget subcommittee meeting this week. [...]

…And he told me that he’s looking to next Friday (if my memory serves me correctly) as the tentative tour date of the Capitol for Georgia bloggers.  Ehrhart said to me that he wants to spend about an hour or so giving us the “50 cent tour”  (my words, not his).
Rep. Ehrhart also mentioned that [...]