Snap! Bring it on, Sonny…oh, it’s been brung…deal with it Florida as Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue looks at his state’s pristine coastline and then at the development Florida allows on its shores and says he wonders how Florida officials can preach about the environment.
Preach it, brother! Can I get an AMEN?!?!
In Georgia, “you have a … pristine undeveloped coastline with marshes there that people love to look out on,” [Perdue] said. “And then I come to Florida and I see the developed coastline all the way around from Jacksonville all the way up to Tallahassee, I really wonder how we can be preached at as Georgians over environmentalism and water.”
Perdue, who was attending a Republican Governors Association conference, also said Florida officials should just say what their argument is really all about: answering to the area’s commercial fishing industry.
“Utilizing the endangered species act as a weapon in this battle is somewhat disingenuous. We know what this is about. We know it’s about the bay and the quality of the bay and the oysters and that very powerful, very loud political constituency,” Perdue said. “Let’s don’t try to make it about a federal law that really it’s not all about, about mussels or about sturgeons.”
Word to your mother or we’re gonna come down there in our Nite Rida and represent.
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If Ga. has such a great and pristine coast line teaming with marine life then why is it everybody in Ga. comes to Fla. to fish.
Itr’s way past time for Atlanta to put down wells and it’s way past time for Fla to limit the impact on our resourses from people that live and pay taxes in Ga. Purdue can kiss my a$$
Was this said before or after Sonny went by to look at his Florida property?
LET’S TAKE OVER THE PAN HANDLE AND FRY THEIR FISH!!!
Florida needs more water because it has mismanaged its own water so badly. The only portion of the Florida fishing industry at risk is oysters. Who wants to eat something that gives you a 35% chance of contracting Hepatitis C and a small chance of being killed by a viral infection called Vibrio vulnificus.
We already give them too much water. They already market too much diease and death.
But hey, I do like good oysters.
Sonny has a point, and maybe going to war is necessary. It would be better for Sonny to start broadly educating everyone of Georgia’s position on this controversy. Ie:
1) metro water consumption is not the problem,
2) the lack of rain is the reason for the water shortage,
3) the sturgeon and mussels would have died under natural conditions (no Corp releases from Lake Lanier),
4) about 6% of the water in the Chatahoochee river basin comes from areas above Lake Lanier
5) the vast majority of the water is drained from the basin below Lanier and below Atlanta
Those are very rational points.
Who are you, and what have you done with Progressive Dem?
Maybe if Florida adopted Sonny’s Go Fish program they wouldnt have any water problems
Why don’t we just use the only power we acutally have and stop spending our money there?
Vacation on the Georgia coast!
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Why dont we use the only power we have an stop spending our money down there?
Vacation in Georgia!
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