63. DuBose Porter and Carol Porter?

Reporter for the AJC, Jim Galloway was the first one to put the story of Carol's video and the buzz it was creating on the internet. Yesterday the story made it into the print edition. The story line is the same, but the print version includes new comments from DuBose and Carol.

The possibilities of a husband-and-wife ticket in Georgia
February 17, 2010, by Jim Galloway
Somebody pick up the phone and call Fox. We’ve got a reality show brewing.
Late last month, DuBose Porter, a Dublin newspaper publisher and Democratic candidate for governor, couldn’t make it to a small-business forum in Atlanta. So his wife of 26 years subbed for him.
Carol Porter did well, as anyone who has watched the YouTube video will attest. So well that the couple is considering whether she should enter the 2010 campaign as a candidate for lieutenant governor. The husband and wife would run as a ticket.
“Over the last several weeks, there’s been a viral movement that has taken on a life of its own,” said DuBose Porter, the House minority leader. “There truly is no one more qualified or who knows the issues better. She’s an awesome person. She’d make an awesome candidate.”
With a general election only nine months away, Democrats have yet to field a single candidate for lieutenant governor. (State Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond is often mentioned as a possibility, but has yet to make a decision.) Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, the Republican incumbent, has no primary opposition.
“Thoughtful consideration is going into it,” said Carol Porter, general manager of the family’s small newspaper chain. “Quite frankly, I’m just not sure that Casey needs a cakewalk.”
The Porter campaign — the gubernatorial one — is asking supporters if they’re open to the idea.
The partnership would be unique in Georgia politics. Candidates for governor and lieutenant governor, regardless of party, do not endorse each other, much less share the same bed. Or, for that matter, the same children — four grown sons, in this case. Media attention would be significant.
The public is familiar with spouses acting as behind-the-scenes strategists. Witness the recently dissolved partnership between Mark and Jenny Sanford in South Carolina. But a candidate’s spouse in search of her own votes is a plot line that many voters might judge worth following.
The only Southern precedent even slightly comparable might be Lurleen Wallace’s decision to run for governor of Alabama in 1966 — as a surrogate for her term-limited husband, George Wallace.
But Carol Porter can’t be termed a sock puppet. “I don’t believe that would fit,” she said. “I feel very comfortable with the issues. I have a fairly clear vision, as does DuBose, about what the problems are and what the solutions are.”
With her husband in the state Capitol much of the time, Carol Porter is the business side of the family equation. She’s the one on the board of the local Chamber of Commerce.
Her husband was born in Dublin, but her background is slightly more eclectic. The daughter of a Wrightsville, Ga., doctor, she went to boarding school at Woodward Academy in College Park. She graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in psychology. She dabbles in folk art.
Many Democrats are baffled by the possibility of a husband-and-wife strategy. Others dismiss it as a publicity stunt that smacks of desperation.
Former Gov. Roy Barnes has dominated every statewide poll among Georgia Democrats, and DuBose Porter ranked fourth among five Democrats in fund-raising last year — behind Barnes, Attorney General Thurbert Baker and former National Guard commander David Poythress.
Both Porters argue that, in a one-two campaign, they would complement each other’s fund-raising efforts, not dilute them.
But the advantage may be this: With or without money, Carol Porter’s entry into the lieutenant governor’s contest would immediately raise her profile — and, through a shared story line, that of her husband.
In essence, the Porters could double their message at a very low cost. Those who know her would agree that Carol Porter’s speeches often have more edge than those of her husband. She would be the voice that says the things that he can’t.
“I’m a fiery, passionate person who truly cares, and I would like to see the children of this state get a great education. Because I think corruption is what’s holding us back,” Carol Porter said. “If we could just not run it on campaign donors — for once. If we could just do what’s right, just one good time, and get it all running and turn the economy around and educate the children. Georgia’s such a great spot. It has everything — except leadership.”
There is, of course, the matter of what would happen should they both win — first in July, then in November. But that’s an entirely different story line.

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62. DuBose Porter: Fights the Revenue Department for your money.

CRAWFORD / Lawmakers should go where the money is

http://www.charltoncountyherald.com/articles/2010/02/16/opinion/editorials/doc4b7abcc8cfbbe844297319.txtBy Tom Crawford

Published:

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:40 AM EST

Little by little, the money keeps disappearing from the state budget.

Georgia legislators have had to delete $1.2 billion from the current year’s budget because the recession has killed tax revenues. Lawmakers will have to reduce the budget for next fiscal year by a similar amount because the recession still shows few signs of ending anytime soon.

Who suffers the most when state spending is cut by such large amounts? Public education has consistently taken the biggest hit. At the urging of Gov. Sonny Perdue, the Legislature has cut more than $2 billion in state funding to local school systems for grades K-12 since 2003.

Those reductions continued in the revised state budget that the House approved last week. The amended budget cuts another $281 million in Quality Basic Education (QBE) funds that the state would normally send to local schools.

If the state’s public school system is to be kept intact, this cutting cannot go on much longer. Is there a way, short of passing a tax increase, to raise the money needed for education?

As it turns out, there is a solution staring legislators right in the face.

Georgia loses buckets of tax dollars every year because of retailers who charge the sales tax on their customers but keep the money rather than send it to the revenue department. This problem is well known to lawmakers and revenue officials, but they haven’t done much to deal with it.

A pilot program in Hall County uncovered the fact that nearly 1,000 businesses in that county do not have sales tax numbers, which means they are not reporting their sales tax collections to the state. There are several hundred businesses that do not have a business license from their local government.

House Minority Leader DuBose Porter (D-Dublin) and his Democratic colleagues have been trying in vain for more than a year to pass legislation that would crack down on these renegade businesses who are cheating the state of sales tax proceeds.

“Our bill will stop the tax cheaters and get the money where it ought to go,” Porter said.

Based on the results of the Hall County program, Porter estimates that unreported sales taxes for the whole state could amount to as much as $1 billion. This is not a tax increase: this is money that the businesses are already required to collect and send to the state.

Revenue Commissioner Bart Graham gets irritated whenever his agency is criticized and claims that the estimate of $1 billion in uncollected taxes is much too high. But even Graham concedes that somewhere between 5 percent and 10 percent of Georgia’s sales tax proceeds are being evaded. That conservative estimate would still amount to $250 million to $500 million a year.

That amount of money could make up for the major cuts in state funding to local school systems, and then some.

There have been indications in recent weeks that legislative Republicans could be ready to join their Democratic colleagues and take action to collect these delinquent taxes. Bills have been introduced by lawmakers from both parties to set up a system that would cross-check sales tax and business license data to identify retailers who are not turning over tax proceeds as the law requires.

Legislators have also come to the realization that you have to have tax collectors before you can actually collect taxes. The revised state budget includes money for the revenue department to hire six investigative agents and four financial analysts for its fraud detection group, which means there will be more people to go after tax cheats.

That’s a good start. The next step is for lawmakers to get moving and adopt this legislation so that Georgia can start collecting taxes that are long past due.

The General Assembly can move fast when it comes to legislation that has no relevance for its constituents. The Senate has already adopted a bill that would make it illegal to implant microchips in people, even though the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Chip Pearson (R-Dawsonville), could not cite a single instance where any person in Georgia was ever forced to undergo such an implantation.

If legislators would only move that quickly to go after tax cheats, the state and its school systems would be in much better shape.

• Tom Crawford is the editor of Capitol Impact’s Georgia Report, an Internet news service at www.gareport.com that covers government and politics in Georgia. He can be reached at tcrawford@capitolimpact.net.

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61. What do you think?

A husband-and-wife team for governor and lieutenant governor?

11:57 am February 16, 2010, by Jim Galloway (published at ajc.com)

Late last month, Carol Porter subbed for her husband at a forum hosted by a small-business organization that featured Republican and Democratic candidates for governor.

DuBose Porter, a newspaper publisher from Dublin, is the House Democratic leader. Carol Porter, who is general manager for the family’s small newspaper chain, did well. See for yourself here:

In fact, Carol Porter did so well that some Democrats are urging her into the race for lieutenant governor, which still lacks a Democratic candidate. Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, the Republican incumbent, is unopposed.

In other words, we would have a husband-and-wife team running for governor and lieutenant governor.

“She’s been approached about that. It’s true,” said Matt Caseman, spokesman for the DuBose Porter campaign. “She hasn’t made a decision. But yes, she’s considering it.”

And what does her husband of 26 years think? “He’s very supportive of anything Carol wants to do,” Caseman said.

Now, maybe this is a publicity stunt. If so, it’s one worth pondering.

Media outlets would be all over it. And his spouse’s candidacy would end attempts to talk DuBose Porter out of the governor’s race and into the lieutenant governor’s race. But there’s also the chance that Carol Porter would siphon off campaign contributions.

As of January, DuBose Porter’s campaign lagged behind three other Democrats in contributions: Roy Barnes, Thurbert Baker and David Poythress. (Porter was third in terms of cash on hand.)

One other Democrat, state Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond, is also thinking about the race for lieutenant governor – but has yet to make a decision.- The End

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60. DuBose Porter: Your Voice and Your Heart

Recently I was asked, "Why do you want to be the next governor of the state of Georgia?"
Here is the answer:
"When I was Chairman of the Education Committee and then later Chairman of Higher Education, I saw that to take education to where it needed to be you have to have the power and the will of the governor's office. I had thought when the children graduated, if the time was right, I would run for Governor. When the transportation plan failed again last year for the second time as our major city sat in gridlock, when public safety was reduced to unsafe numbers, when water was threaten for Georgians and corruption only grew more intrenched, I realized it was time to get in, and work to take out, the policies and the corruption that were holding this state down.
For one example, when I was Chairman of Education, I saw that the jobs of the future were going to go to the states that had the highest level of education. I started pushing for post secondary options to partner with high schools and technical and community colleges back when Zell Miller was Governor and it was vetoed. Then the next Governor vetoed it. I finally got it through and Governor Perdue ended the program. Industry will not locate in a state without a well-trained workforce and that is what is happening now. Had I had the power of the Governor's office back then, we would now have that well trained workforce and we would be the ones attracting industry instead of North Carolina and the other states which invested in education and job training.
Instead we have had governors the last decade who have consistently damaged our schools and not supported our teachers. I have fought for improvements in education, from smaller classrooms to rewards for teachers’ earning National Board Certification. I was the first signer on the HOPE Scholarship and I have never made one vote that would not improve our education system in a way that would attract industry and jobs to Georgia.
In 1965, eighty percent of the jobs could go to high school drop-outs (20% to higher degrees.) That 80% of the jobs, like in farming and textile have gone. Once the Pacific Rim opened up and businesses found people who would work for 25 cents an hour, the jobs for the uneducated have been leaving the United States. Those jobs are not coming back. The jobs of the future are going to go to those who are well-educated enough to be able to adapt to a changing job market and who can easily retrain.
We have to get our children reading at the grade level at which they should be reading in early grades. We have to hold onto them in the middle grades where we start to lose them. And then in high school, if we know 80% of the jobs require a post secondary degree, like a technical or community college provides, we need to start allowing our students to get these degrees. We must implement post secondary options that don't financially punish our public schools.

Corruption also must be removed from education policy. The size of future prisons can be projected based on third grade reading scores. There are many well-connected donors who stand to gain financially building prisons and even more by managing privately owned prisons. Every time you reduce your educational levels you increase the money made on prisons. It will take a Governor willing to ignore the campaign donors who are influencing every department and put the needs of Georgians first.
Corruption is really the number one problem in Georgia. If we can put the needs of the people ahead of the interests of the campaign donors, we can solve our education, transportation, and our water issues and get public safety to a point where our citizens are safe. It will take revenue to give Georgians these basic needs, basic needs that must be met to attract industry and jobs. There are ways to increase revenue by innovative thinking like the point of sale bill; and with priority budgeting; better marketing for our state; and by leveraging more of our share of federal funds (funds we will have to pay back even if they go to another state.)
We can come out of this current economic crisis a better state. Georgia is a beautiful state with natural resources for every person's tastes, from the mountains, to the valleys, to the midlands, to the coast. If we put the needs of Georgians ahead of the special interests, we can make it so industry and jobs and the families that come with them, are attracted to what we know, can be the best place on earth. I will be the Governor who puts your voice and your heart back in your government.

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59. DuBose Porter: Rail. Yes. Now.

We just can't say it enough. We need rail. We need the boost it will bring to the economy by attracting industry and creating jobs. We need to put people to work now and to keep our future on par with our neighboring states. As the article states below, ' This is how Birmingham felt in the 1960s, when it realized that airlines were indeed serious about big jets and big airports.'
If we don't act now, federal money for rail will, I repeat, will be going to other states and not just this year, but in the future. We will, I repeat, will be having to help pay for it anyway.
All of us are not just realizing we need rail. We had the chance to start our rail project in the mid-nineties. I worked on the route to Macon and another to Athens. Several of us did, but until you have someone in the Governor's office who is willing to set a course and put up the effort and do the work to bring a vision in, it just can't take off. As your Governor I will make sure that happens.

Another article you may have missed on rail:
Welcome to Georkansas: Suddenly, we have a rail gap
Excerpts from AJC, 11:27 am January 29, 2010, by Jim Galloway
...North Carolina has spent more than $300 million since 1992 to bolster its passenger rail service. On Thursday, it saw a return on that investment: a $545 million slice of President Barack Obama’s $8 billion high-speed rail stimulus.
Florida got an even bigger piece of that pie — $1.25 billion. The Sunshine State may have helped its case by boosting funding for mass transit after U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood warned that it needed to get its act together to compete for high-speed rail funds.
Georgia got a similar warning but didn’t jump to action. It got a $750,000 sliver.
Welcome to Georkansas.
This is how Birmingham felt in the 1960s, when it realized that airlines were indeed serious about big jets and big airports. Rail is the next big thing, and we have dug ourselves a large philosophic hole. Sam Williams, head of the Metro Chamber of Commerce and a longtime advocate of rail, said this morning that it will be years before we can crawl out:
“The first criteria that we’ve heard from the feds is that you have to have a state rail plan thoroughly written and presented. And you have to also have congressional support, and you have to have state government support. We’re so underfunded on infrastructure that, at this stage of the game, I don’t see them diverting any other funds to do the upfront work that North Carolina and Florida have done.
“Those states have spent hundreds and millions of dollars of their own money in the last decade. There may be specific projects – certainly there’s a lot of hope right now over the Peachtree-Auburn trolley project coming out of stimulus money. But stimulus money? We’ve gotten all the money we’re going to get.”
Renay Blumenthal, senior vice president at the Chamber, added this:
“We’ve got to put skin in the game. Which really comes back to why this regional T-SPLOST is so important. The only entity that’s got money to put into transportation right now is the federal government. We need to align our state transportation priorities with the federal transportation authorities to get access to that money. “
Which means that Gov. Sonny Perdue’s proposal for regional transportation districts will have to include language that permits expenditures on rail, or there isn’t likely to be a deal.
The End

We have yet to see Gov. Perdue's bill. For the future of Georgia, let's hope he puts rail in it.

Before the train leaves the station,
vote for DuBose Porter, July 2010.

58. DuBose in the Georgia snow.

A beautiful day in Georgia!
Hope you are all in safe and sound.
Have a great weekend.

And thank you Carol Evans
for sending Team DuBose such a fantastic photo.
ANd to Warren Mullis who sent us the one at the top!

57. Smaller government that costs more--the midterm budget.

(The list of who voted you in the largest property tax increase in Georgia history is at the end of this blog.)

House OKs Midyear Budget (by Insider Advantage)
(2/11/10) The Georgia House approved a midyear budget Thursday that cuts state spending in the current fiscal year by more than $1 billion in response to the mired economy.

Majority Republicans acknowledged it will cause pain but said it is spread across state government, not restricted to just a few agencies. 

They touted their restoration of $17 million in funds which Gov. Sonny Perdue had proposed to cut from the QBE equalization grant that aids 134 school systems, and said they had protected the HOPE scholarship but foisting off his attempt to shift $33 million in costs for non-HOPE scholarships to the lottery.

Democrats, led by Minority Leader (and gubernatorial candidate) DuBose Porter, lauded both moves but said that in the case of K-12 education, it wasn’t enough. Adding back $17 million still leaves education with an overall cut of $72 million, he said, boosting the cumulative cut to education during the Perdue years to about $2.5 billion...


“No, it’s not okay,” Porter said of the budget. “When we cut our teachers and cut our schools, we are shortchanging our kids.” He said the cuts to schools will force further property tax increases.



Rep. James Mill, R-Gainesville, the designated rebuttal man for Republicans, said Georgia voters want the state to be more like them and manage to make do with less. “This is less government; it is less spending,” he said.
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That would be the opposite of the truth.
In the short term, local governments will be forced to raise your property taxes because they are obligated to continue to pay for the classrooms that they currently have. This midterm budget passes the responsibility of finding that money down to local governments whose only choice will be to raise property taxes.
For the long term it is even more devastating to the tax payer.
A government so small it does not educate its public is an extremely expensive government to maintain. Prisons populations are predicted based on third grade reading scores. It costs $8,000 to educate a child and up to $50,000 to imprison one. Who will be paying for that difference? You will, and those numbers do not account for the lost contributions to the tax base for each prisoner, nor the financial harm caused to the victims. The only ones who will profit from the massive cuts in education are the people who build prisons, the people who will manage privatized prisons and the companies that will be able to use the prison workforce in their companies as a cheap source of labor. Your legislators know all this. They know when they reduce education now, they increase prison populations later, but smaller government makes a great soundbite. The real question on smaller government should be, "If smaller government creates a $50,000 cost where there should be an $8,000 one, do you still want it that small?" Somewhere along the line, the smaller government movement has gone astray and turned into smaller government at all costs. One of the biggest losers is the taxpayers, who will continue to see their property taxes go up, to try to sustain a financially unsustainable prison population.
But the elected Republicans ran on not raising taxes; surely if they knew this midterm budget would indirectly raise your property taxes they would not have passed it? Why not? They have already directly raised property taxes by repealing the Homeowner’s Tax Relief Grant in last year’s 2009 session, when they gave taxpayers the largest single property tax increase in Georgia history:


HB 143 - Local government; homeowner tax relief grants; change certain provisions (...as in repealed it.)

N = No, don't repeal it and don't raise property taxes.
Y = Yes, repeal it and raise property taxes.

Senators:

PASSAGEFebruary 6, 2009 12:09PM
Yea (Y):29Nay (N):24Not Voting (-):0Excused (E):3

• NADELMAN, 42ND
• YBALFOUR, 9TH
• NBROWN, 26TH
• NBUCKNER, 44TH
• YBULLOCH, 11TH
• NBUTLER, 55TH
• YBUTTERWORTH, 50TH
• YCHANCE, 16TH
• NCHAPMAN, 3RD
• YCOWSERT, 46TH
• YCROSBY, 13TH
• YDOUGLAS, 17TH
• NFORT, 39TH
• YGOGGANS, 7TH
• NGOLDEN, 8TH
• YGRANT, 25TH
• YHAMRICK, 30TH
• NHARBISON, 15TH
• YHARP, 29TH
• YHAWKINS, 49TH
• YHEATH, 31ST
• NHENSON, 41ST
• YHILL, 32ND
• YHILL, 4TH
• NHOOKS, 14TH
• YHUDGENS, 47TH
• YJACKSON, 24TH
• NJACKSON, 2ND
• NJOHNSON, 1ST
• NJONES, 10TH
• YMOODY, 56TH
• YMULLIS, 53RD
• YMURPHY, 27TH
• NORROCK, 36TH
• YPEARSON, 51ST
• NPOWELL, 23RD
• NRAMSEY, SR., 43RD
• EREED, 35TH
• YROGERS, 21ST
• NSEABAUGH, 28TH
• NSEAY, 34TH
• YSHAFER, 48TH
• NSIMS, 12TH
• NSMITH, 52ND
• YSTATON, 18TH
• ESTONER, 6TH
• NTARVER, 22ND
• ETATE, 38TH
• YTHOMAS, 54TH
• NTHOMPSON, 33RD
• NTHOMPSON, 5TH
• YTOLLESON, 20TH
• YUNTERMAN, 45TH
• NWEBER, 40TH
• YWILES, 37TH
• YWILLIAMS, 19TH

HB 143PASSJanuary 30, 2009 11:14AM

Yea (Y):117Nay (N):55Not Voting (-):2Excused (E):6

Representatives:

• NABDUL-SALAAM, 74TH
• NABRAMS, 84TH
• YALLISON, 8TH
• YAMERSON, 9TH
• YANDERSON, 117TH
• NASHE, 56TH
• YAUSTIN, 10TH
• NBAKER, 78TH
• YBARNARD, 166TH
• YBATTLES, 15TH
• YBEARDEN, 68TH
• NBEASLEY-TEAGUE, 65TH
• NBENFIELD, 85TH
• YBENTON, 31ST
• YBLACK, 174TH
• NBROOKS, 63RD
• NBRUCE, 64TH
• YBRYANT, 160TH
• NBUCKNER, 130TH
• YBURKHALTER, 50TH
• YBURNS, 157TH
• YBUTLER, 18TH
• YBYRD, 20TH
• YCARTER, 159TH
• YCARTER, 175TH
• YCASAS, 103RD
• YCHAMBERS, 81ST
• YCHANNELL, 116TH
• YCHEOKAS, 134TH
• YCOAN, 101ST
• YCOLE, 125TH
• ECOLEMAN, 97TH
• YCOLLINS, 27TH
• YCOLLINS, 95TH
• YCOOPER, 41ST
• YCOX, 102ND
• YCRAWFORD, 16TH
• YDAVIS, 109TH
• YDAVIS, 122ND
• NDAWKINS-HAIGLER, 93RD
• YDAY, 163RD
• YDEMPSEY, 13TH
• YDICKSON, 6TH
• YDOBBS, 53RD
• YDOLLAR, 45TH
• NDOOLEY, 38TH
• EDRENNER, 86TH
• NDUKES, 150TH
• YEHRHART, 36TH
• YENGLAND, 108TH
• NEPPS, 128TH
• NEPPS, 140TH
• YEVERSON, 106TH
• NFLOYD, 99TH
• NFLUDD, 66TH
• NFRANKLIN, 43RD
• NFRAZIER, 123RD
• NFULLERTON, 151ST
• NGARDNER, 57TH
• -GEISINGER, 48TH

• YGLANTON, 76TH
• YGOLICK, 34TH
• NGORDON, 162ND
• YGRAVES, 12TH
• YGREENE, 149TH
• YHAMILTON, 23RD
• YHANNER, 148TH
• YHARBIN, 118TH
• YHARDEN, 147TH
• YHARDEN, 28TH
• NHATFIELD, 177TH
• NHEARD, 114TH
• NHECKSTALL, 62ND
• YHEMBREE, 67TH
• EHENSON, 87TH
• YHILL, 180TH
• YHILL, 21ST
• YHOLT, 112TH
• YHORNE, 71ST
• YHOUSTON, 170TH
• NHOWARD, 121ST
• NHUDSON, 124TH
• NHUGLEY, 133RD
• NJACKSON, 142ND
• YJACOBS, 80TH
• NJAMES, 135TH
• YJERGUSON, 22ND
• YJOHNSON, 37TH
• EJOHNSON, 75TH
• NJONES, 44TH
• YJONES, 46TH
• NJORDAN, 77TH
• NKAISER, 59TH
• YKEEN, 179TH
• YKEOWN, 173RD
• YKNIGHT, 126TH
• YKNOX, 24TH
• YLANE, 158TH
• YLANE, 167TH
• YLEVITAS, 82ND
• YLINDSEY, 54TH
• NLONG, 61ST
• YLOUDERMILK, 14TH
• NLUCAS, 139TH
• ELUNSFORD, 110TH
• YMADDOX, 127TH
• YMADDOX, 172ND
• NMANGHAM, 94TH
• YMANNING, 32ND
• NMARIN, 96TH
• YMARTIN, 47TH
• YMAXWELL, 17TH
• YMAY, 111TH
• NMAYO, 91ST
• YMCCALL, 30TH
• NMCKILLIP, 115TH
• YMEADOWS, 5TH
• YMILLAR, 79TH
• YMILLS, 25TH
• NMITCHELL, 88TH

• NMORGAN, 39TH
• YMORRIS, 155TH
• NMOSBY, 90TH
• NMURPHY, 120TH
• YNEAL, 1ST
• YNIX, 69TH
• YO`NEAL, 146TH
• YOLIVER, 83RD
• YPARHAM, 141ST
• YPARRISH, 156TH
• YPARSONS, 42ND
• YPEAKE, 137TH
• NPORTER, 143RD
• YPOWELL, 171ST
• YPOWELL, 29TH
• YPRUETT, 144TH
• YRALSTON, 7TH
• YRAMSEY, 72ND
• NRANDALL, 138TH
• YREECE, 11TH
• YREESE, 98TH
• YRICE, 51ST
• -RICHARDSON, 19TH
• YROBERTS, 154TH
• YROGERS, 26TH
• YRYNDERS, 152ND
• YSCOTT, 153RD
• YSCOTT, 2ND
• YSELLIER, 136TH
• YSETZLER, 35TH
• YSHAW, 176TH
• YSHELDON, 105TH
• NSHIPP, 58TH
• YSIMS, 119TH
• YSIMS, 169TH
• NSINKFIELD, 60TH
• YSMITH, 113TH
• YSMITH, 129TH
• YSMITH, 131ST
• YSMITH, 168TH
• YSMITH, 70TH
• NSMYRE, 132ND
• NSTEPHENS, 161ST
• YSTEPHENS, 164TH
• NSTEPHENSON, 92ND
• YTALTON, 145TH
• NTAYLOR, 55TH
• ETEILHET, 40TH
• NTHOMAS, 100TH
• NTHOMPSON, 104TH
• YWALKER, 107TH
• YWELDON, 3RD
• YWILKINSON, 52ND
• YWILLARD, 49TH
• NWILLIAMS, 165TH
• YWILLIAMS, 178TH
• YWILLIAMS, 4TH
• NWILLIAMS, 89TH
• NWIX, 33RD
• YYATES, 73RD

verify for yourself
http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/sum/hb143.htm


Yesterday’s midterm budget was devastating to the educational system in Georgia and to the taxpayer. Where we should be focusing on attracting industry and jobs through a well educated workforce, we have instead made prisons our newest growth industry.

Vote for common sense, cost-effective government.

Vote for DuBose Porter
in the Democratic Primary, July 2010.