Comments on: Re: Millions of Dollars for Corporate Tax Breaks. . . http://www.peachpundit.com/2009/03/26/re-millions-of-dollars-for-corporate-tax-breaks/ Fresh Political Pickins From The Peach State Mon, 13 Feb 2012 04:52:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Game Fan http://www.peachpundit.com/2009/03/26/re-millions-of-dollars-for-corporate-tax-breaks/comment-page-1/#comment-164596 Game Fan Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:55:16 +0000 http://www.peachpundit.com/?p=13344#comment-164596 Can the canning plants. Bring in Hollywood. Have a can film festival. Can the canning plants. Bring in Hollywood. Have a can film festival.

]]> By: IndyInjun http://www.peachpundit.com/2009/03/26/re-millions-of-dollars-for-corporate-tax-breaks/comment-page-1/#comment-164535 IndyInjun Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:44:58 +0000 http://www.peachpundit.com/?p=13344#comment-164535 How much of the budget reduction was enabled by the flood of money from Washington? How much of the budget reduction was enabled by the flood of money from Washington?

]]> By: fishtail http://www.peachpundit.com/2009/03/26/re-millions-of-dollars-for-corporate-tax-breaks/comment-page-1/#comment-164478 fishtail Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:16:27 +0000 http://www.peachpundit.com/?p=13344#comment-164478 Count one more job lost before it was even created...Gena Evans is toast in her envisioned new role as the Czarina of All State Transportation ...the House has nuked her and Sonny and Casey...told you so 4 weeks ago...no way the Speaker and his henchman would give up the control of DOT after they had knifed Gena Evans...SB 200 is dead...Casey and Perdue are clueless.Thursday, March 26, 2009, 5:13pm EDT Georgia House to nix new transportation agencyAtlanta Business Chronicle - by Dave Williams Staff Writer Print Email Reprints RSS Feeds Add to Del.icio.us Digg This CommentsRelated News Georgia DOT board ousts Evans Metro Atlanta Chamber ready for transportation funding bill Atlanta council gives qualified support to rail agreement Atlanta, DOT bury hatchet in rail line dispute House Republican leaders are abandoning Gov. Sonny Perdue’s proposal to create a new state transportation agency to assume key duties now performed by the Georgia Department of Transportation, House Speaker Glenn Richardson said Thursday. Richardson, R-Hiram, told members of the House Transportation Committee that he and his leadership team have agreed to shrink the governor’s bill from 114 pages down to about 20. The Senate narrowly passed Perdue’s legislation three weeks ago, but House members have expressed concerns that the new agency would be run by a board appointed only by the governor, lieutenant governor and speaker. All lawmakers, including rank-and-file members, get to elect members of the DOT board by congressional district. “We heard what you said,” Richardson told the committee. “We understand that you don’t wish to create a new agency or change the way we elect the DOT board.” Richardson said the pared-down bill will be reduced to dealing with transportation planning and appropriating issues and will ensure that the legislature has a say in those matters. In pushing the bill, Perdue and Senate Republican leaders have argued that the DOT has become dysfunctional, failing to deliver needed transportation projects in a timely manner. They said the new agency's structure would make it less parochial and more able to look at transportation needs from a statewide perspective. The House committee will meet on Friday to take up the new version of the bill. It likely would reach the floor of the chamber by the middle of next week. Print Email Yahoo! Buzz Count one more job lost before it was even created…Gena Evans is toast in her envisioned new role as the Czarina of All State Transportation …the House has nuked her and Sonny and Casey…told you so 4 weeks ago…no way the Speaker and his henchman would give up the control of DOT after they had knifed Gena Evans…SB 200 is dead…Casey and Perdue are clueless.Thursday, March 26, 2009, 5:13pm EDT
Georgia House to nix new transportation agencyAtlanta Business Chronicle – by Dave Williams Staff Writer
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House Republican leaders are abandoning Gov. Sonny Perdue’s proposal to create a new state transportation agency to assume key duties now performed by the Georgia Department of Transportation, House Speaker Glenn Richardson said Thursday.

Richardson, R-Hiram, told members of the House Transportation Committee that he and his leadership team have agreed to shrink the governor’s bill from 114 pages down to about 20.

The Senate narrowly passed Perdue’s legislation three weeks ago, but House members have expressed concerns that the new agency would be run by a board appointed only by the governor, lieutenant governor and speaker. All lawmakers, including rank-and-file members, get to elect members of the DOT board by congressional district.

“We heard what you said,” Richardson told the committee. “We understand that you don’t wish to create a new agency or change the way we elect the DOT board.”

Richardson said the pared-down bill will be reduced to dealing with transportation planning and appropriating issues and will ensure that the legislature has a say in those matters.

In pushing the bill, Perdue and Senate Republican leaders have argued that the DOT has become dysfunctional, failing to deliver needed transportation projects in a timely manner. They said the new agency’s structure would make it less parochial and more able to look at transportation needs from a statewide perspective.

The House committee will meet on Friday to take up the new version of the bill. It likely would reach the floor of the chamber by the middle of next week.

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]]> By: fishtail http://www.peachpundit.com/2009/03/26/re-millions-of-dollars-for-corporate-tax-breaks/comment-page-1/#comment-164477 fishtail Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:08:53 +0000 http://www.peachpundit.com/?p=13344#comment-164477 Count one more lost job...that of Gena Evans as the new State Czarina of All Transportation...the House gutted Perdue/Cagle legislation today. Told you so, didn't I? No way the Speaker was going to give up control of DOT after they had wrenched it from Perdue's grasp: Thursday, March 26, 2009, 5:13pm EDT Georgia House to nix new transportation agencyAtlanta Business Chronicle - by Dave Williams Staff Writer Print Email Reprints RSS Feeds Add to Del.icio.us Digg This CommentsRelated News Georgia DOT board ousts Evans Metro Atlanta Chamber ready for transportation funding bill Atlanta council gives qualified support to rail agreement Atlanta, DOT bury hatchet in rail line dispute House Republican leaders are abandoning Gov. Sonny Perdue’s proposal to create a new state transportation agency to assume key duties now performed by the Georgia Department of Transportation, House Speaker Glenn Richardson said Thursday. Richardson, R-Hiram, told members of the House Transportation Committee that he and his leadership team have agreed to shrink the governor’s bill from 114 pages down to about 20. The Senate narrowly passed Perdue’s legislation three weeks ago, but House members have expressed concerns that the new agency would be run by a board appointed only by the governor, lieutenant governor and speaker. All lawmakers, including rank-and-file members, get to elect members of the DOT board by congressional district. “We heard what you said,” Richardson told the committee. “We understand that you don’t wish to create a new agency or change the way we elect the DOT board.” Richardson said the pared-down bill will be reduced to dealing with transportation planning and appropriating issues and will ensure that the legislature has a say in those matters. In pushing the bill, Perdue and Senate Republican leaders have argued that the DOT has become dysfunctional, failing to deliver needed transportation projects in a timely manner. They said the new agency's structure would make it less parochial and more able to look at transportation needs from a statewide perspective. The House committee will meet on Friday to take up the new version of the bill. It likely would reach the floor of the chamber by the middle of next week. Print Email Yahoo! Buzz Reader Comments (0) Comments Count one more lost job…that of Gena Evans as the new State Czarina of All Transportation…the House gutted Perdue/Cagle legislation today. Told you so, didn’t I? No way the Speaker was going to give up control of DOT after they had wrenched it from Perdue’s grasp:

Thursday, March 26, 2009, 5:13pm EDT
Georgia House to nix new transportation agencyAtlanta Business Chronicle – by Dave Williams Staff Writer
Print Email Reprints RSS Feeds Add to Del.icio.us Digg This CommentsRelated News
Georgia DOT board ousts Evans
Metro Atlanta Chamber ready for transportation funding bill
Atlanta council gives qualified support to rail agreement
Atlanta, DOT bury hatchet in rail line dispute

House Republican leaders are abandoning Gov. Sonny Perdue’s proposal to create a new state transportation agency to assume key duties now performed by the Georgia Department of Transportation, House Speaker Glenn Richardson said Thursday.

Richardson, R-Hiram, told members of the House Transportation Committee that he and his leadership team have agreed to shrink the governor’s bill from 114 pages down to about 20.

The Senate narrowly passed Perdue’s legislation three weeks ago, but House members have expressed concerns that the new agency would be run by a board appointed only by the governor, lieutenant governor and speaker. All lawmakers, including rank-and-file members, get to elect members of the DOT board by congressional district.

“We heard what you said,” Richardson told the committee. “We understand that you don’t wish to create a new agency or change the way we elect the DOT board.”

Richardson said the pared-down bill will be reduced to dealing with transportation planning and appropriating issues and will ensure that the legislature has a say in those matters.

In pushing the bill, Perdue and Senate Republican leaders have argued that the DOT has become dysfunctional, failing to deliver needed transportation projects in a timely manner. They said the new agency’s structure would make it less parochial and more able to look at transportation needs from a statewide perspective.

The House committee will meet on Friday to take up the new version of the bill. It likely would reach the floor of the chamber by the middle of next week.

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]]> By: IndyInjun http://www.peachpundit.com/2009/03/26/re-millions-of-dollars-for-corporate-tax-breaks/comment-page-1/#comment-164453 IndyInjun Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:41:06 +0000 http://www.peachpundit.com/?p=13344#comment-164453 That is in the CAN. That is in the CAN.

]]> By: IndyInjun http://www.peachpundit.com/2009/03/26/re-millions-of-dollars-for-corporate-tax-breaks/comment-page-1/#comment-164452 IndyInjun Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:40:45 +0000 http://www.peachpundit.com/?p=13344#comment-164452 Education is the third rail of Georgia politics. Education is the third rail of Georgia politics.

]]> By: John Konop http://www.peachpundit.com/2009/03/26/re-millions-of-dollars-for-corporate-tax-breaks/comment-page-1/#comment-164449 John Konop Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:21:34 +0000 http://www.peachpundit.com/?p=13344#comment-164449 The biggest reason jobs are down is two fold. One we are buying more than we consume ie trade deficit and we hid the problem via easy access to credit ie debt. And now the credit market has become too tight. The solution is fixing the credit market and America investing in products that we can export or products that take us off foreign dependency. Unless we focus on this we are just playing a shell game. The biggest reason jobs are down is two fold. One we are buying more than we consume ie trade deficit and we hid the problem via easy access to credit ie debt. And now the credit market has become too tight.

The solution is fixing the credit market and America investing in products that we can export or products that take us off foreign dependency. Unless we focus on this we are just playing a shell game.

]]> By: Icarus http://www.peachpundit.com/2009/03/26/re-millions-of-dollars-for-corporate-tax-breaks/comment-page-1/#comment-164444 Icarus Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:57:13 +0000 http://www.peachpundit.com/?p=13344#comment-164444 “The State Department of Education has two canning plants in south Georgia.” I think we could get by with just one. “The State Department of Education has two canning plants in south Georgia.”

I think we could get by with just one.

]]> By: Buddha the Magnificent http://www.peachpundit.com/2009/03/26/re-millions-of-dollars-for-corporate-tax-breaks/comment-page-1/#comment-164442 Buddha the Magnificent Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:47:29 +0000 http://www.peachpundit.com/?p=13344#comment-164442 "For those of you who think the fat from the State budget is gone I’ll tell you what I was told a few weeks ago: “The State Department of Education has two canning plants in south Georgia.” Why do they have these plants? “To teach kids how to can, of course.” Yep, there’s no more fat in our budget." Yes, we can? “For those of you who think the fat from the State budget is gone I’ll tell you what I was told a few weeks ago: “The State Department of Education has two canning plants in south Georgia.” Why do they have these plants? “To teach kids how to can, of course.” Yep, there’s no more fat in our budget.”

Yes, we can?

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