Mayor Floyd Responds To Talk of Gubernatorial Run
Decatur Metro | March 23, 2009 | 4:58 pmStraight from the mayor…
I have been thinking about this for a long time, but there is a big difference between thinking about it and actually doing it. It is a big commitment and takes a lot of $$, but as we watch our legislature and state leaders at work, it continues to come up in conversations with others. This state has some major problems and at times it seems the least of them is money.
Bottom line? Sounds like it could happen.
While I wish the Mayor the best in whatever he chooses, I’m sure I speak for a lot of Decaturites when I say that, in this instance, I’d rather not share with the rest of the state…
Which party?
This backwards GA government needs someone like him. Its frightening how immature so many of the legislators are in this State as well as the current governor. He would be perfect for the job and has the personality, insight, and work ethic to pull this state into the current century.
Regardless of how wonderful Bill might be, I’m afraid him being from Decatur and Dekalb County will kill any chances of him winning a state office. People in this state outside the Peoples Republic look at Decaturites as a bunch of over-taxed, wacked-out liberals living in a dysfunctional Banana Republic county all of which are run by (surprise) Democrats. I will gladly take what we have in the statehouse now over the corrupt Stone Age political era of Tom Murphy and Democratic control.
Yeah….Georgia is so backwards.
WASHINGTON — With the braying of 328 yahoos — members of the House of Representatives who voted for retroactive and punitive use of the tax code to confiscate legal earnings of a small unpopular group — still reverberating, the Obama administration Monday invited private-sector investors to become business partners with the capricious and increasingly anti-constitutional government. This latest plan to unfreeze the financial system came almost half a year after Congress shoveled $700 billion into the Troubled Asset Relief Program, $325 billion of which has been spent without purchasing any toxic assets.
TARP funds have, however, semi-purchased, among many other things, two automobile companies (and, last week, some of their parts suppliers), which must amaze Sweden. That unlikely tutor of America regarding capitalist common sense has said, through a Cabinet minister, that the ailing Saab automobile company is on its own: “The Swedish state is not prepared to own car factories.”
Another embarrassing auditor of American misgovernment is China, whose premier has rightly noted the unsustainable trajectory of America’s high-consumption, low-savings economy. He has also decorously but clearly expressed sensible fears that his country’s $1 trillion-plus of dollar-denominated assets might be devalued by America choosing, as banana republics have done, to use inflation for partial repudiation of improvidently incurred debts.
From Mexico, America is receiving needed instruction about fundamental rights and the rule of law. A leading Democrat trying to abolish the right of workers to secret ballots in unionization elections is California’s Rep. George Miller who, with 15 other Democrats, in 2001 admonished Mexico: “The secret ballot is absolutely necessary in order to ensure that workers are not intimidated into voting for a union they might not otherwise choose.” Last year, Mexico’s highest court unanimously affirmed for Mexicans the right that Democrats want to strip from Americans.
Congress, with the approval of a president who has waxed censorious about his predecessor’s imperious unilateralism in dealing with other nations, has shredded the North American Free Trade Agreement. Congress used the omnibus spending bill to abolish a program that was created as part of a protracted U.S. stall regarding compliance with its obligation to allow Mexican long-haul trucks on U.S roads. The program, testing the safety of Mexican trucking, became an embarrassment because it found Mexican trucking at least as safe as U.S. trucking. Mexico has resorted to protectionism — tariffs on many U.S. goods — in retaliation for Democrats’ protection of the Teamsters union.
NAFTA, like all treaties, is the “supreme law of the land.” So says the Constitution. It is, however, a cobweb constraint on a Congress that, ignoring the document’s unambiguous stipulations that the House shall be composed of members chosen “by the people of the several states,” is voting to pretend that the District of Columbia is a state. Hence it supposedly can have a Democratic member of the House and, down the descending road, two Democratic senators. Congress rationalizes this anti-constitutional willfulness by citing the Constitution’s language that each house shall be the judge of the “qualifications” of its members and Congress can “exercise exclusive legislation” over the District. What, then, prevents Congress from giving House and Senate seats to Yellowstone National Park, over which Congress exercises exclusive legislation? Only Congress’ capacity for embarrassment. So, not much.
The Federal Reserve, by long practice rather than law, has been insulated from politics in performing its fundamental function of preserving the currency as a store of value — preventing inflation. Now, however, by undertaking hitherto uncontemplated functions, it has become an appendage of the executive branch. The coming costs, in political manipulation of the money supply, of this forfeiture of independence could be steep.
Jefferson warned that “great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.” But Democrats, who trace their party’s pedigree to Jefferson, are contemplating using “reconciliation” — a legislative maneuver abused by both parties to severely truncate debate and limit the minority’s right to resist — to impose vast and controversial changes on the 17 percent of the economy that is health care. When the Congressional Budget Office announced that the president’s budget underestimates by $2.3 trillion the likely deficits over the next decade, his budget director, Peter Orszag, said: All long-range budget forecasts are notoriously unreliable — so rely on ours.
This is but a partial list of recent lawlessness, situational constitutionalism and institutional derangement. Such political malfeasance is pertinent to the financial meltdown as the administration, desperately seeking confidence, tries to stabilize the economy by vastly enlarging government’s role in it.
Run Bill Run. Run as a Democrat and keep me from having to hold my nose to vote for Dubose Porter or some other DINO.
Bill Floyd is a wonderful leader in Decatur. I am so impressed by his governing skills and down to earth dealings with people. It would be a great loss to Decatur, but a big plus for Georgia if he were to become the gov. Because the repubs. have such a stronghold on the state, it probably won’t happen, though.
Bill Floyd has as much chance to be the Gov’ as Vernon Jones did to be the Senator.
Ummm…I thought the idea was to vote for the person vs. voting for the party.
Are we Decaturites really blind to that concept?
I think Bill would be great, and I would vote for him regardless of party affiliation during the campaign.
Don’t think he would be able to walk to work though!
“Georgia’s personal income growth (the worst in the country) was hit hard by declines in the state’s large base of jobs in construction, manufacturing, transportation and retail, said David Lenze, an economist in the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis.”
http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/stories/2009/03/24/georgia_shrinking_income.html
Gee…what a progressive base for job growth. Such wisdom and foresight.
Sonny Perdue should do what he does best… stick to his idiotic rain dances. At least that embarrassment to the rest of the country is not as bad as not being able to actually manage his state effectively.
Bill should change his name to Bubba if he wants to make a run at it. Bubba Floyd….now that sounds like a Georgia governnor’s name. Run as a Democrat named Bubba. Perfect.
I agree with Eye Roll. Let’s go back to the Republican way…Let’s make the rich even richer, let them write the rules of engagement to get even get richer and then hope for the best. I’m sure it will trickle down to the middle class like it has done for the last 30 years. It worked under feudalism as well, right? Give the Princes and Kings their money and everything will be fine. We promise. The rich always know what’s best for the middle class.
Is it just me or does anybody else think that George Will is an absolutely horrendous writer? His sentences are peppered with so many parenthetical phrases and pseudo intellectual meanderings it gets to the point where it’s almost impossible to make out what he’s arguing for or against.
I agree about George Will’s lack of comprehensible writing. I’ve always thought of him as poor man’s (or maybe a dumb rich man’s) William F. Buckley. Unfortunately, he never seemed to learn that you have to have some logic and flow behind those big words. Now, if we want to talk about conservative wags that can’t write we can easily point to the AJC’s Wooten. He may be the worst writer I’ve ever come across in a major daily. He writes that bullet point “column” on Friday’s that never makes sense. And his other columns never progress beyond bullet point arguments at best. I’m pretty sure that I don’t agree with much that he has to say, but I can’t ever finish reading his column to really know – I get tired of trying to re-read the first paragraphs to figure out what the heck he’s saying and then I have to quit.
“Not a chance” Thy real name is Zell.
Wow, George Will wrote that exact same thing yesterday.
Copy and Paste Skills: A+
Independent Thought: F
Realistically, he’d have to run as a Republican.
So the real question is whether or not Casey Cagle already has it wrapped up?
Bill Floyd can’t run as a Republican. Not being the Mayor of 75% Democratic Decatur and praising the election of Barack Obama.
The whole idea of him running for Governor is a little silly anyway, don’t you think?
You don’t think Decatur would forgive him for being pragmatic if he lost?
Silly? Not as silly as Sonny Purdue…
What is a DINO ?
Democrat In Name Only
Mr. Jones’ baggage doomed him. Mayor Floyd would suffer from none of that. A better race to examine would be Jim Martin’s near success against Saxby Shameless. At the statewide level other southern states have turned Blue (North Carolina, Virginia). Mr. Floyd (assuming he is a Dem!) should examine those races and ask, why not here!
Ha! I thought the same thing SAACJack! He’d show up at the governor’s mansion and be like “What do you mean I can’t walk to anything!?”
Gosh Rick, please explain to me why all those migrants from those progressive (liberal) Blue States like Michigan, Ohio, New Jersey and Pennsylvania are flocking to little ‘ol backwards Georgia. I mean look how the Democrats controlling those states have their economies just booming with new and innovative industries creating thousands of jobs. I know I’m sure jealous!! The economy here in Georgia is in shambles compared to those states! Damn that Governor Perdue. Educate me Rick (with your obvious government school education) on why all the amazingly intelligent individuals in those states would want to give all that up to be with us unwashed, God-fearing, conservatives here in Georgia. If you can’t think of anything, don’t worry, MENSA members Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Harry Reid, Charlie Rangel and Al Franklin will tell you what to say. It’s my guess you gave up your thinking abilities during the Clinton administration.
Oh and one more thing. Rick, your comments are so bitter you must be really hurting. [edited: no personal attacks] That will help ease the pain of living in Georgia.
Interesting tid bit: When our former Lieutenant Gov. and Decatur resident, Pierre Howard,, ran for Governor in the primary he claimed that Pierre was French for Bubba. He got my vote for his sense of humor, but he still lost. I wish, but don’t believe, that a resident of metro ATL, at least one sensitive to our needs, can win a statewide race.
Don’t forget, and I’m sure you haven’t, who won the election.;
Why do people from MI, OH, NJ, and PA move down here? Turn on the weather channel.
And the interesting converstaion would be why is it that the Metro area, with the great majority of the population and economic actvity, jobs, etc., does not have more say with the boys at the capital.
The air conditioner changed the South forever.