Businesses are very unhappy with the Senate failing to pass a constitutional amendment to deal with transportation and Jerry Keen got lots of free meals from lobbyists.
“Being in leadership and being majority leader, there are a lot of folks that would like to talk to him,” said Chase Daughtrey, Keen’s deputy chief of staff.
Keen’s staff [...]

Their leadership acts like petulant children. Here’s Dick Pettys’s opening:
Ten days on, the bad reviews of the 2008 legislative session just keep on coming. Not only have they not abated, they’ve widened to encompass more targets.
The initial target, naturally enough, was Speaker Glenn Richardson. He should be used to it by now. It’s [...]

House Regulated Industries committee attaches retail Sunday Sales to the Gwinnett Braves Sunday Sales:
State Sen. Renee Unterman (R-Buford), the author of the Gwinnett stadium bill, urged the committee not to tack the Sunday sales measure onto her legislation. Unterman said Gov. Sonny Perdue has told her he would veto any legislation that would allow for [...]

This sounds like a fine plan to me.
It’s sponsored by Nancy Schaefer, John Douglas, Robert Brown, and others. Basically, it requires immediacy in an emergency for DFACS to take a child from a home, only allows them to keep the child for 72 hours (as opposed to the present 7 days) without a court [...]

A friend of mine sent me this video, I put up on YouTube for your viewing enjoyment.

This one…I made. My first shot at making a video.
If Cagle fails to deliver on this tax break, I imagine the first campaign videos in 2010 looking something like this (well, they’ll be, you know…good).

The Senate does not like them.

The Georgia Senate on Thursday booted the lone environmentalist from the state board charged with protecting natural resources.
“It’s one heck of an Earth Day present,” said Sally Bethea, the executive director of the Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper who — until now — was the strongest pro-environment voice on the state’s 18-member [...]

All in response to PeachCare.

I’m no fan of tax increases and I’m not a particular fan of the 3.5% surcharge imposed on rental cars that the Senate passed last night. But, given the options, it appears to have been the best option available.
This issue has been around for a while. The state has a legitimate need to [...]

As a blogger, I am loving the fighting going on between the Senate and the House. It makes for great blog posts. Today, Travis Fain again provides a balanced, solid look at the fight over Peach Care. The House and Senate have resumed their pee fest on each other over the various [...]

Political Insider has the details. In short, Wendell Willard thought he had a deal. Rich Golick thought so too and didn’t like whatever it might have been.

So, when last the GOP met, the Democrats were threatening to attack them over SB 43 by highlighting an employee who went on to him employer’s property and shot a co-worker. The GOP decided to back down on SB 43 and the genius NRA lobbyists then decided to try to co-opt the very Democrats [...]

I don’t think it is that odd.

One of the quirkiest bills filed this year passed the Senate with no opposition late Tuesday evening.
The original version of Senate Bill 191 would have barred the state from naming anything in honor of Senate Minority Leader Robert Brown (D-Macon), who introduced the legislation. Brown said serving his constituents [...]

I feel sorry for them. Maybe we should all chip in and send them up some pizza and beer.

Sunday alcohol sales won’t be taken up at the Capitol today, and neither will the governor’s senior citizens tax break. But a laundry list of other issues, from the controversial to the mundane, will be discussed [...]

Let’s make no bones about, that’s what’s about to happen. The Georgia Legislature is about to enable female genitalia to go killing. My word choice may be offensive to some, but this law should really be offensive to those of you who actually hunt and care about such things.
I mean, you must be [...]

The number to reach the Georgia House Public Information Office is listed here. The number is 1-800-282-5800. I was calling to ask when the legislature decided to start shafting voters by making them pay Lexis to see the Georgia Code.
Turns out the phone number is no longer operated by the House. It [...]