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Last one - why is it "fair" to put it to the voters for THIS flag, when no other flag change has ever been put to a popular vote in Georgia, the '56 flag was passed by the leglislature just like the '01 flag and the '03 flag and every flag before (oh, except that when the '56 flag was passed, there were 66 abstentions in the house). When it is UNCONSTITUTIONAL under the state constitution to have a binding referendum on the flag.

You folks are just spinning myths about the reality you want to exist.

Look, I don't know what the history was if previous flags in Georgia, but evidently there was not the controversy stirred before that exists now. Obviously this is an issue that many people care deeply about, and since this was once a government by the people and still claims to be, the fact that so many do care about it justifies putting it to a vote. And obviously that was a viable option because it was a fear that some admitted to. To me, that translates to being afraid that they wouldn't like the outcome so they decided not to take any chances.

Last one - why is it "fair" to put it to the voters for THIS flag,

Maybe because the people were led to believe there WOULD be a referendum IF Perdue was elected, and many lifelong Democrats voted for him based on that belief? It may not have been the # 1 issue in the election, but IMHO Sonny wouldn't be governor now if not for that first flag deal between Barnes and Jesse Jackson.

You guys in metro Atlanta may not realize the anger that's out here in the sticks and hicks, but a lot of lifelong Dems in rural and small town GA voted Republican at the state level for the first time in their lives because of the flag issue. For most of them it wasn't so much about the flag as it was about the way King Roy and his partners in crime cravenly caved in to Jesse and his race hustlers in that deal they cut in the middle of the night behind locked doors. I don't particularly care all that much about the flag issue per se, frankly I never noticed the flag before outside professional agitators started the ruckus, but I do care a lot about establishing a permanent Republican majority at the state level in GA, and Sonny is getting off on the wrong foot for that to happen.

Do you think all those Democrats who voted for Sonny and Pub legislators primarily because they thought they were voting for a flag referendum will vote GOP again if they believe the first Pub they ever voted for broke his word to them? It doesn't really matter if Sonny actually promised a referendum, what matters is that people think he promised. If they feel betrayed by Sonny as they felt they were by Barnes, I believe he'll be a one term aberration and then we'll go back to the same old Democrat corruption and deceit we had before.

The people may not get a chance to vote in a referendum on the flag, but there WILL be a binding referendum on the politicians in power now at the next general election. And I'm afraid we're not gonna like the result.