Sonny pushes back, stupidly
Well, it's clear now that Sonny Perdue will veto any legislation that grants local communities the right to hold votes on Sunday Sales because, again, local control is such a terrible concept ...
We live in a republic, and the people of Georgia send us here to make decisions. I’m very concerned about a lot of the efforts I hear this year, about ‘Well, we’ll just let people vote on it.’ I mean, do we want to let the people vote to choose to allow prostitution and those kinds of things? Where are we going to draw the line?
And there we have it ... letting local communities vote on whether or not they will let their grocery stores, gas stations, etc., sell beer and wine on Sunday is equal to letting voters vote on legalizing prostitution.
Even though we already do sell alcohol six other days of the week ... even though our existing protocol is to let local voters participate in referendums to determine whether or not they should permit alcohol sales during those six days ... even though the original bill this proposal was amended to deals specifically with letting a designated local community sell beer and wine from its stadium, the governor doesn't care.
So here's what the Georgia General Assembly should do ... man up, pass the bill and dare him to veto it. If he does, override it as soon as you can and declare that Perdue wasn't acting in accordance with the wishes of the voters.
We live in a republic, and the people of Georgia send us here to make decisions. I’m very concerned about a lot of the efforts I hear this year, about ‘Well, we’ll just let people vote on it.’ I mean, do we want to let the people vote to choose to allow prostitution and those kinds of things? Where are we going to draw the line?
And there we have it ... letting local communities vote on whether or not they will let their grocery stores, gas stations, etc., sell beer and wine on Sunday is equal to letting voters vote on legalizing prostitution.
Even though we already do sell alcohol six other days of the week ... even though our existing protocol is to let local voters participate in referendums to determine whether or not they should permit alcohol sales during those six days ... even though the original bill this proposal was amended to deals specifically with letting a designated local community sell beer and wine from its stadium, the governor doesn't care.
So here's what the Georgia General Assembly should do ... man up, pass the bill and dare him to veto it. If he does, override it as soon as you can and declare that Perdue wasn't acting in accordance with the wishes of the voters.
posted by Jmac at 11:34 AM
8 Comments:
There's barely enough sentiment to pass the thing (I'm not sure there is). There'd be no stomach whatsoever for a veto override.
Agree: Sonny's prostitution analagy is absurd on many levels. But much more disappointing to me is his stance re taxes.
We--Republicans--wait 130 years for a GOP governor, and this guy is what we come home with: a warmed-over Democrat who (a) raises taxes, (b) proposes more tax increases, (c) vetoes tax cuts, and (d) threatens more vetoes of more tax cuts. All this, while Republican House "leadership" can't get its act together well enough to pass any meaningful tax reform.
I'd hitch my wagon to Casey Cagle, but Johnny Isakson's waiting in the wings.
For the price of a ride to the airport, I'd just about give the whole damned mess back to the Democrats.
Reggie
And there we have it ... letting local communities vote on whether or not they will let their grocery stores, gas stations, etc., sell beer and wine on Sunday is equal to letting voters vote on legalizing prostitution.
Look - I'm in favor of Sunday sales too, but that is QUITE obviously NOT what the Governor said.
Great post, McGinty. I tried to write about it without using four-letter words to describe that turd of a man, but just couldn't do it.
Reggie wrote: I'd hitch my wagon to Casey Cagle, but Johnny Isakson's waiting in the wings.
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Johnny Isaakson? The Realtor who proposed a tax credit for people who buy foreclosed properties as a solution to the housing crisis?
You Republicans are drinking some STRANGE Kool-Aid.
So in your mind, anon, the solution to the housing crisis is to have foreclosed homes that DON'T sell?
Sheesh.
Isakson's right; he knows the business, obviously you don't.
Reggie
Reggie,
Tell me why it's better to give someone a $15,000 tax break to own a "foreclosed" home, as opposed to just letting the bank own it until it sells.
Why not offer every potential home buyer out there a $15,000 tax credit, instead of just those buying bank owned houses?
Bailing out banks seems to be the Republican thing to do these days, boy I sure do miss good old fashioned conservatism.
oh and Reg....I'm sure you're a big fan of the "free market", how come the "free market" couldn't work for Bear Stearns?
yeah, that's what I thought
To be fair, one can say that the free market did work in the case of Bear Stearns. A free market is not a guarantee that every business will profit. Inherently built into the imaginary of the free market is the idea of mutual cooperation combined with antagonistic competition. Rivalry, in other words. And in any situation where rivals compete against one another on the subtext of a shared standard of respect, ultimately someone is going to have to lose if they make terrible business decisions. Businesses that engage in a misunderstanding of the economic situation they are in fail and go out-of-business.
If, though, the government can be tasked with rescuing these businesses through insurance, regulation of lending, and directly loaning to them, the market is no longer so free.
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