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Mayor Invites Governor to Decatur to Explain Himself

August 23, 2008 | 10:48 am

Not surprisingly, Mayor Floyd shares my exasperation with the governor for blaming local governments as he unceremoniously slashed our homeowner tax relief grants in order to soften the blow of his $2 billion budget shortfall.

Over on his blog (I still think its awesome that the mayor has a blog. “where else?”, I ask you), Mayor Floyd chastises Perdue for his tendency to lunge for a scapegoat (local governments!) instead of admit his own administration’s errors, and invites the Governor to a forum in Decatur to explain this “divisive approach”.

Unfortunately for us, the governor would never agree to something like that. Aside from the fact that there is little political upside, it would be quite difficult to explain these indefensible statements, which could only be made by someone who sat so high upon their ivory tower that they could conveniently ignore every protest shouted up at them.

But we can dream. Hey… maybe Sonny inherited the Marty McFly gene and if we dare whisper a single word, all rationality and thought of self-preservation goes out the window.

Chicken?

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30030, Homeowners Tax Relief Grant, Mayor Bill Floyd, Sonny Perdue

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