Nah. I’m just a big Ronald Reagan fan and I love quoting the guy. I’ve got more quotes by Reagan in my database than quotes by anyone other than Thomas Jefferson.

Reagan as an expert on facts being stubborn. Does that imply that he’s tried to change a few facts or not?

I tend to agree with you on it being a one man tax plan. However, we were out of step with other states. Which isn’t news. Heck, it supports your one man plan theory.

We’re last in everything else.

Mark Taylor was the GREATER of two evils . . .

Sorry,

I thought it was a comment on Taylor being such a . . . well-rounded guy . . .

The best bet is a new leader and not part of the status quo leadership of the House.

This scandal is happening far enough out that Democrats are going to recruit folks to run in districts against Republicans and make them defend the special interes corruption that exists under the Gold Dome.

Unfortunately, there is so much more scandal that has yet to spill out, if it all makes it out into the news, we might as well all just start helping Roy.

It is amusing that so many capital staffers seem to come out of the woodwork when a topic like this comes up. On this thread alone, there are 4 or 5 posters that have never discussed any other issue. I bet at least 3 of them work for somebody in government. Everything that they say pegs my BS meter.

Geez, it’s embarrassing that you try to have opinions on education in Georgia.

October 25, 2006 Wednesday
Main Edition

Perdue tax break spotlights legislator;
Larry O’Neal is not just the governor’s hometown pal, he’s a lawyer and businessman who has risen fast at the Capitol.

BYLINE: CARLOS CAMPOS; Staff
Also in the 1980s and ’90s, O’Neal was pushing plans to place landfills in two rural Georgia counties where county officials opposed the projects. One fight became particularly contentious. O’Neal and his fellow investors in GSW Inc., including Tom Allgood, a former Democratic state senator from Augusta, sued Long County and the state Environmental Protection Agency. A federal judge ruled against O’Neal’s company.

Last year, O’Neal, Watson, Long and a local developer purchased an assisted living facility in Warner Robins for $2.5 million at a public auction. O’Neal incorporated the facility’s previous owner, which financed the purchase in 1998 with $5.5 million from bonds issued by the Houston County Development Authority. Long — O’Neal’s law partner — is the authority’s attorney.
O’Neal, Long and the others bought the facility after its foreclosure.

LOL!

(1) Who did you vote for?

(2) Are you serious??

Here is the exit poll I want pollsters to start asking:

Was your primary purpose to vote for one candidate or against the other candidate?

Which, come to think of it, has been typical in many GA gubernatorial elections.

If so, O’Neal is not anyone we want as Speaker.

He has rotten Dem AND GOP roots.

The armed forces opposed the landfill because the dump would attract birds that could bring down military aircraft practicing bombing runs. An amendment to a Metro Atlanta landfill bill was proposed by Rep. Buddy DeLoach (R) Hinesville, that would prohibit the O’Neal landfill from being built near the bombing range to protect the lives of the pilots, and ultimately the use of the site for training. The existence of the bombing range was often cited as an argument against closing nearby military bases, including Warner Robins AFB in O’Neal’s home county of Houston.

O’Neal unsuccessfully lobbied against the DeLoach amendment, and he failed in that effort. The addition of the amendment to the bill provided enough votes to assure its passage, and it was then signed by Gov. Miller, and the bombing range is still in operation in Long County.

In 1995, Larry O’Neal was perfectly willing to pose his own financial interest against the safety of military pilots, and against the economic interests of the state in the safe operation of the Townsend Bombing Range. There is no doubt that he was just as genial and intelligent then as he is now. But are those qualities sufficient to overcome the negatives associated with the kind of judgment he showed in 1995, or that he seems to have shown in securing a sweetheart tax deal for his client Sonny Perdue after he was elected to the legislature?

Still, O’Neal is well-positioned to bring about the electoral results that I want to see… so I strongly urge you against changing horses in mid-stream. You should keep clearing the air about flagrant corruption in the current GOP gubernatorial administration, though.