The Governor will sign H.B. 881 today in a bill signing ceremony. This is the charter school legislation.
Thanks, Governor.

Gov. Perdue is suspending fuel taxes on dyed fuel used by farmers and timber harvesters:
Perdue made the announcement in Macon, where he was signing agricultural legislation into law.
“Our farmers have borne the brunt of this multi-year drought and now face record fuel prices during planting season. Suspending this tax will bring needed relief to our […]

With Johnny Isakson out, who do you want in the GOP to run for Governor?

Ox is all we need

Karen Handel

Chuck Efstration

Casey Cagle

Lynn Westmoreland

Glenn Richardson

Saxby Chambliss

Jack Kingston

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This is NSFW (google the initials if you don’t know what it means).

A big tip of the hat to our friends at Creative Loafing who, unlike me, have enough class to not actually put up the video.
Let’s hope the person at La Quinta Inn was right.
BTW, the crazy girl would be more likely to carry […]

The online driving school bill is a bad idea.
Scooby Doo can get behind the wheel again in Florida.
Not in real life, of course. The talking dog doesn’t exist. But opponents of a bill to let Georgia’s habitual traffic violators take court-ordered driving classes online signed the cartoon canine up for an Internet course in Florida, […]

Someone whose IP address goes to the La Quinta Inn claims Governor Perdue will sign the gun bill.

Governor Perdue will “perform” an ultrasound on a pregnant elephant at the Atlanta zoo today. From yet another dopey press release:
WHAT:
Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue, a licensed veterinarian, will conduct a health check and ultrasound on Dottie the Elephant at Zoo Atlanta. Dottie is expecting a baby in 2009.
WHEN:
Wednesday, May 7, 2:30 p.m.
WHERE:
Elephant Habitat on the […]

H.B. 881 is the charter schools legislation. Given the mess in Clayton County and the kids who are stuck down there, I am really surprised the Governor hasn’t signed this legislation — it’s just common sense reforms to prevent local school boards like Clayton County from shutting down charter schools without cause and the […]

Governor Sonny Perdue has signed HB 1011, HB 1450, HB 1454, HB 1480 and SB 558 into law. Unless you live in Liberty County, Franklin County, Forsyth County, Dodge County or Banks County, you aren’t going to care.

Governor Sonny Perdue has signed SB 480 and HB 1302.
“Senate Bill 480 will aid Clayton County students if the school system cannot salvage its accreditation by allowing qualified students to receive the HOPE Scholarship,” said Perdue.
HB 1302 puts into place an extensive code of ethics for members of the Clayton County Board of Education and […]

Having drilled down into the matter, read the legislation, and found out what is already and not already allowed, I’ve changed my mind on the gun law about guns in restaurants.
The Governor should sign the bill. If restaurants themselves don’t want guns on premises, they can say so and let market forces decide whether […]

Should the Governor sign this law?

Some consumers could see increases of more than 60 percent on car insurance rates if Gov. Sonny Perdue signs a bill passed during the 2008 legislative session that would allow insurance companies to raise rates without justifying them to regulators, Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine warns.

Part of me thinks he […]

Okay, not quite. But earlier this week he did sign HB 1208, HB 1038 and HB 1340.
Unless you live in Gwinnett County, the City of Douglasville or Wilkes County, you aren’t going to wet your pants with excitement over this.
Speaking of Wilkes County, according to Georgia.gov, the county seat there is the town […]

From his press office:
As a component of the Governor’s Conserve Georgia announcements today, Governor Perdue launched the Governor’s Energy Challenge. This is a commitment by Governor Perdue that Georgia’s state government will reduce its energy usage 15 percent by 2020 over the 2007 energy use levels through energy efficiency or in combination with renewable […]

We’ll see if Governor Sonny Purdue will actually allow local government to have control over issues like this, as reported by The Daily Citizen of Dalton.
A bill that would allow the city of Dalton and other local governments to hold referendums on whether to end taxes that are dedicated to recreation is on Gov. Sonny […]