The Department of Transportation

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Most folks believe that the state Department of Transportation is a mess.

This morning's AJC (12/13) indicated that the DOT has almost 300 current projects and a backlog of almost 9000 projects!!

Much of this backlog is due to the fact that the Georgia Legislature treats the DOT budget like the Peachtree City "developer elite" treats the PTC budget, i.e. their own personal piggybank.

The DOT made huge strides this year by bringing in an outsider to clean up this mess. Transportation professional Gena Abraham beat out the Legislature's hand-picked political candidate by a 7-6 vote.

This rebuff was taken as a personal insult by Glenn Richardson, speaker of the House. He's throwing a Bob Lenox-class hissy fit and has indicated he will gut the DOT bureaucracy in January.

To do this, Richardson will need a pliable Republican majority to do his bidding.

I am of the opinion that Ramsey will do anything to continue to curry favor with the political elite, and Steve Brown will do the right thing (not necessarily the popular thing).

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Saw that too
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Submitted by nuk on Thu, 12/13/2007 - 2:41pm.

Glenn Richardson is pretty lousy. Between his whining over Perdue slapping him around because he can't do his job as speaker, the Not-So-Great-At-All plan which is poorly conceived and shows little thinking was ever given to it, and now acting petulant over the DOT issue; he's been pathetic.

Lt. Gov Cagle seems to have quickly figured out that if you take the opposite stance from Richardson that most will agree with you, even the AJC.

NUK


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BIG sales tax
Submitted by Nitpickers on Thu, 12/13/2007 - 3:34pm.

Can't be deducted off the federal taxes. Property tax can!

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Sniffles - You are right on DOT
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Submitted by Paul Perkins on Thu, 12/13/2007 - 10:18am.

In addition, the current power (as an appointed board) that GRETA has to block funding needs to be eliminated. For that matter GRETA needs to be eliminated! Laughing out loud

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