"Not one person born in Georgia that day would try to close the door on open government in Georgia, but Sonny did."
Those are my words.
I first spoke those words at the 2006 Georgia Democratic State Convention as part of my case for why Gov. Perdue didn't deserve a second term in office.
Well, thanks to legislation signed into law by Perdue, those closed doors are open again and the sunlight of transparency is shining brightly through the halls of government.
...the "Transparency in Government" website allows online access to agency expenditures on professional services, employee salaries and travel. Plus, it includes state financial reports and program reviews from the two previous years.
"The Open Georgia website makes state government more transparent to its customer, the taxpayer," Perdue said in announcing the site. "By being willing to further open the halls of government to the public, we give citizens more confidence that their tax dollars are being spent wisely." [Source: Insider Advantage Georgia, "A Faster Way To Know Who's Getting What From State Government", January 6, 2009]
The web address for the Transparency in Goverment website is www.open.georgia.gov.
What, no mention of the theft of public Jekyll Island lands by "Sonny" and his GOP cronies?
ReplyDeleteSo whadda ya gonna do about it?
Want more Sonny crimes?
ReplyDeleteWhere are our jobs Sonny?
Prison detainees get to work at Claxton Poultry making 3 dollars an hour thereby replacing minimum wage workers who have no job.
State technical school mergers supposedly to save money take school networking fees for just two of the schools from 30k per year to 500k per year.
Where is the savings in that?
The man did not deserve a second term, he deserved to be impeached for criminal trespasses against the state of Georgia.
There is a reason this state is faring much worse than other states in our current recession and why state workers are losing their jobs in droves....that reason is Sonny Perdue.