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GOP Widens Lead in Georgia Senate (They just keep SWITCHING and SWITCHING in Georgia...)
AP ^ | 11-12-2002 | AP

Posted on 11/12/2002 3:43:21 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj

November 12, 2002 at 14:05:15 PST

GOP Widens Lead in Georgia Senate

ASSOCIATED PRESS

ATLANTA- A fourth Democrat in the Georgia Senate has changed parties, bolstering the Republican majority and giving a boost to GOP Gov.-elect Sonny Perdue.

State Sen. Jack Hill's decision Tuesday gives Republicans a 30-26 edge over Democrats in the chamber and it reversed the Election Day results that gave Democrats a four-seat majority.

Republicans have not controlled a legislative body in Georgia since Reconstruction, and Perdue is the first Republican in 130 years to become governor of the state.

Democrats still control the Georgia House with 106 members to 73 Republicans and one independent.

The new majority means Republicans could strip Democratic Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor of his power to appoint committees and assign legislation to committees, leaving him only with the power to preside over debate.

Taylor has called on party switchers to resign and run for re-election as Republicans.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: georgia; perdue; republican; switch; taylor
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Marky-Mark continues to see his Demmies go bye-bye. Poor baby ! Somebunny get this fella a hanky.
1 posted on 11/12/2002 3:43:21 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj
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To: Theodore R.
*ping*
2 posted on 11/12/2002 3:44:08 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj
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The new majority means Republicans could strip Democratic Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor of his power to appoint committees and assign legislation to committees, leaving him only with the power to preside over debate.

I don't see any problem here. Democrats just bitch about everything anyway. This will keep Taylor in his playpen.

3 posted on 11/12/2002 3:48:50 PM PST by concerned about politics
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To: fieldmarshaldj
A fourth Democrat in the Georgia Senate has changed parties...

This really angers me, even when it's defectors to our side. People who work hard just like us, made the mistake of voting for these people. As soon as their side lost, they betrayed their constituents. Frankly, I would prefer they go independant, because we really don't need 'friends/traitors' like these. They are as slimy as Jeffords.

4 posted on 11/12/2002 3:49:11 PM PST by Hodar
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To: fieldmarshaldj
I don't see a switch to the Republican party a good thing. These are disloyal weenies who can't be trusted. No different than Jeffords. Screw 'em.
5 posted on 11/12/2002 3:49:22 PM PST by Glenn
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To: fieldmarshaldj
I still don't think that it's seemly to change parties after people vote you in under the umbrella of a certain party.
6 posted on 11/12/2002 3:50:05 PM PST by Hildy
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I would prefer they go independant,

Yeh. That way they can just vote with us, but we'll still keep an eye on them.

7 posted on 11/12/2002 3:50:37 PM PST by concerned about politics
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Must be contagious, we had a state rep switch here too!
8 posted on 11/12/2002 3:50:47 PM PST by Straight Vermonter
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If Pelosi wins in the House, expect switcheroos in D.C.
9 posted on 11/12/2002 3:50:49 PM PST by polemikos
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To: Hodar
I tend to agree with you. If you want to be a Republican, run as a Republican. I do not, however, fault any RAT who switched over to the GOP during the Clinton times. Theirs was a reasonable position because the head of their party was a criminal and the party would not do anything about it. They did the right thing.
10 posted on 11/12/2002 3:52:55 PM PST by doug from upland
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To: Hodar
I suppose you think Ronald Reagen was also a traitor for switching parties, Right?

Pluueeezzzee!

11 posted on 11/12/2002 3:53:29 PM PST by SwordofTruth
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Taylor has called on party switchers to resign and run for re-election as Republicans.

This is the right way to go about changing party affiliations.

I certainly welcome them -- but they should go about changing parties ethically. Not like this.

12 posted on 11/12/2002 3:54:19 PM PST by The Other Harry
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If Pelosi wins in the House, expect switcheroos in D.C.

Maybe these people are finally getting it.
Socialist societies have always failed. Miserably!
Maybe they see the failure falling all around them, and they want out.

I don't think I could stand being a Democrat politician. All the crummy liberal perves would be crawling all over and demanding free handouts and screaming " give me, give me, give me...."
If a Democrat politicain even suggested to these people to get a job, he'd be torn apart!

13 posted on 11/12/2002 3:56:24 PM PST by concerned about politics
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To: SwordofTruth
Phil Gramm, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms....its a long list of former dems who became Pubbies.
14 posted on 11/12/2002 3:56:31 PM PST by Seeking the truth
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Taylor has called on party switchers to resign and run for re-election as Republicans.

Paging Jim Jeffords. Please pick up the blue courtesy phone.

15 posted on 11/12/2002 3:56:53 PM PST by Ditto
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To: Seeking the truth
And don't forget Ronaldus Maximus himself.
16 posted on 11/12/2002 3:57:42 PM PST by Tribune7
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Look for liberal media references (movies, talk shows, political columns, and other forms of mindless entertainment) about how Georgia has become the 'dumbest state.'
18 posted on 11/12/2002 4:00:01 PM PST by JoeSchem
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To: polemikos
If Pelosi is named the minority leader in the House, I would expect a lot of defections out of that party. For Nancy Pelosi is a socialist. Now when I say Nancy Pelosi is a socialist, I'm not just trying to rile everybody up. I mean that Nancy Pelosi is a true socialist. A socialist in the way that Josef Stalin and Vladimir Lenin were socialist. In fact, here's a Washington Times article that clearly states that this is so.

So if you are a member of the other party and your party elects to a leadership position a true-blue dyed-in-the-wool socialist, then that party now becomes the Socialist Party and if you are any kind of patriotic American, you would no longer belong to that party.

19 posted on 11/12/2002 4:00:21 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Hmmm, some Democrats seem to be leaving the plantation.

"Free at last, free at last."
20 posted on 11/12/2002 4:01:44 PM PST by Diddle E. Squat
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