Comments on: Peach Pundit United Against SB 31

By: LoyaltyIsMyHonor

LoyaltyIsMyHonor — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:55:24 +0000

Ronald, I think they’ll be safe next election, since the rate tax won’t kick in until after the election. And by 2012 people will have forgotten about this.

By: LoyaltyIsMyHonor

LoyaltyIsMyHonor — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:53:00 +0000

Feel free to add me to the list:

LoyaltyIsMyHonor, sometimes known as Smyrna Whitetrash, Smyrna, Ga
(Are you reading this Mr. Golick?)

By: Ronald Daniels

Ronald Daniels — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:48:52 +0000

SB 31 represents irresponsible governance and will result in political casualties in the next election. Once there is a rate spike and consumers realize what has been done, you will see incumbents pay for their vote with their job.

I would prefer it not come to that.

By: Dark Knight Begins

Dark Knight Begins — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:06:21 +0000

I just realized that the House Live Feed – unlike the Senate Live Feed – does NOT show the entire vote board.

PLEASE someone be in the gallery. If you will take a pic on a camera phone of the board and get it to me, I will post as I’ve indicated.

email me at southwestgalibertarian@gmail.com if you can do this and need my cell #.

By: Dark Knight Begins

Dark Knight Begins — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:30:21 +0000

Kellie,

Can you give us names please? Text of emails would be even better.

By: Kellie

Kellie — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:19:28 +0000

BobG
Thanks for the link. I used it this morning (less than an hour ago) and have already received 5 responses. All are voting no.

By: John Konop

John Konop — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:11:48 +0000

DonnieChaffin

You make a valid point. But that is why we must keep the pressure up if it is another bad deal. The reason we are in the shape we are in as a country is because we have been uninformed and sitting on our hands. It is time for people to take personal responsibility and let their voice be heard! Also we must stop letting both parties split us on gut issues while they pick our pockets.

By: Jim Wallace

Jim Wallace — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:04:27 +0000

I am on board against this bill. It seems from reading this that GA Power wants to take our taxpayer money and use it for useless ideas. We need to unite as many people against this as we can.

By: Icarus

Icarus — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:19:43 +0000

“Now off to Charleston for some lunch.”

Can you figure out how to run some take out by Atlanta on your way home? I’m officially jealous.

By: ChathamPolitics

ChathamPolitics — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:15:12 +0000

Icarus,
Check your FB email….I have sent you my express approval to add my name to the growing list. Thanks for the request.

Now off to Charleston for some lunch.

By: Icarus

Icarus — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:32:19 +0000

Daniel (and anyone else who feels left out),
,
We made the decision to do this last evening at about 5;30. We only added signatures as people were able to read the text above and give us approval to add their name. There are quite a few of our regulars, including a few front pagers, who we know are against SB 31, but we have not yet been able to contact. We will not add someone’s name to something like the above without their express approval.

Thanks for the support, and keep up the good work.

Icarus

By: Dark Knight Begins

Dark Knight Begins — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:04:29 +0000

Update: SB 31 on RULES Calendar today. Only two other measures are on said Calendar today: requiring notice of changes to flood elevations, and budget. SB31 is the 2nd of 3... are they trying to hide it?

By: Daniel N. Adams

Daniel N. Adams — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:16:34 +0000

I’m hurt for not being included as a signer of this.

Press Release, Feb. 11 2009; Libertarians Oppose Bill That Makes Customers Pay For Georgia Power Risk
Membership and Subscriber Notification, Feb. 25th 2009; IT’S TIME TO CALL YOUR STATE REPRESENTATIVE! NOW!!

Numerous rants on PP and FB.

Daniel N. Adams
Chairman
Libertarian Party of Georgia

(hmmm? was the reason due to my call for un-depreciating competing backed currency or my Paultard status? … must continue to work on my street cred…)

Drift,

I just finished reading Fool, by Christopher Moore, author of Lamb (maybe that will help).

By: Bull Moose

Bull Moose — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:02:28 +0000

Some light reading on why SB 31 is bad…

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/feb/21/bz-rethinking-nuclear-power/

http://www.wftv.com/news/18624407/detail.html

http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/View_Page.pl?Tab=legislators&Submenu=1&File=120808.html&Directory=legislators/senate/011/press/

http://blogs.tampabay.com/energy/2008/12/nuclear-cost-la.html

By: Bill Simon

Bill Simon — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:22:28 +0000

Here’s the thing, Donnie: Accountability. In the morass of the Legislature, it’s challenging to pin anything on a couple of individuals (but they will down the road).

Had this been decided by the PSC, those members who would have voted for it would been more accountable for their actions.

Thus the reason why Stan Wise and Doug Everett were for it. They didn’t want to be held accountable for actually having to vote for it. Because then they would have been nailed in their reelections.

However, in their reelections, its going to be difficult for them to explain the sudden surge in monthly electric bills…so, as fate will have it, they will likely have to fight the result as though they did vote for it. Them voters ain’t that bright to figure out much difference between a Legislator and a PSC Commissioner when it comes to figuring out who is responsible for making their bills increase.

By: BobG

BobG — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:10:01 +0000

You can contact the entire House of Representatives with a single form submission here:

http://www.bobgriggs.com/?page_id=580

This is not a permanent feature; it will most likely be disabled at the end of this session.

By: Dash Riptide

Dash Riptide — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:12:57 +0000

We’ll back down that boat ramp when we get to it.

By: DonnieChaffin

DonnieChaffin — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:06:55 +0000

Maybe I wasn’t clear. Let’s say you are able to kill SB 31 and Georgia Power has to deal with the PSC. And let’s say the PSC turns down their request to collect this $1.30/month or whatever it turns out to be. Do you think Georgia Power will run off into a corner somewhere licking its wounds and cut the dividend they pay to shareholders? Or will they cook the books (or perhaps not even need to cook the books), go back to the PSC with some justification for a rate increase (that looks strangely like $1.30 month) and get their money some other way.

By: Dash Riptide

Dash Riptide — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:56:09 +0000

Suppose for a moment that this is an exercise in futility. Nevertheless, once the information gets in the Tubes it’s there forever. So when there’s a Florida-like revolt against the effects of SB 31 as passed, this stand will haunt those who voted in favor of the bill. They can’t claim ignorance, surprise or sincere mistake with Clark Howard and the blogosphere on the case, now can they? It’s one thing to be labeled as in the pocket of special interests in the abstract; it’s quite another to demonstrate without doubt that you suckle at the teat of Georgia Power at the expense of your constituents. There is no middle ground on this one. It’s either Georgia Power or the ratepayers – the ratepayers without lobbyists to get them excluded from the effects of SB 31, that is.

By: bowersville

bowersville — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:42:49 +0000

Donnie, you are right and there will be a price to pay at the polls. Not nearly enough 5%ers exist to make a difference.

Georgia is behind the national learning curve, when people find out they’ve been duped by the controlling party in favor of big business, guess what, mad SOBs vote out the incumbent party.