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Radical Georgia Moderate: Reps. Davis and Bridges: please save some crazy for the rest of us Reps. Davis and Bridges: please save some crazy for the rest of us by Rusty Tanton |www.radicalgeorgiamoderate.org|bio| Steve Davis and Ben Bridges appear to be giving Bobby Franklin a run for his money for the title of "most friendly Georgia legislator to the views of fringe lunatics." Rep. Davis should certainly be nominated for an "efficiency in bigotry" award if nothing else. On Feb. 10, he wrote on his blog:
Watch your back Bobby, Steve is nipping at your heels! Not to be outdone, Ben Bridges sent a memo to the Texas Legislature claiming that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific theories, but rather a competing "creation scenario" of the Pharisee religion. I guess the Masons/Illuminati are old hat for conspiracy fodder. I can only hope that taxpayer dollars weren't used to pay for their tin foil hats.
I'm thinking of adapting the Fulmer Cup to keep track of the insanity of Georgia legislators. Here's some background: The Fulmer Cup is a contest created by college football blogger Orson Swindle of Every Day Should Be Saturday to keep track of arrests and other transgressions against decency by college football players.
It's named for my alma mater's head coach Phillip Fulmer, who sometimes has trouble keeping his players out of jail. The ultimate focus is on the schools that can't control their players rather than on the individual players, so I'm thinking we ought to focus more on district craziness than on individual craziness.
That is to say:
I'd like to take that a step further. It wouldn't be hard to plug the results into Google Maps and get a visual readout of which district is the craziest. Then we could name a craziest district, write a press release, and send it to media outlets at the end of the session each year.
Who's in? We can make this a group project for next year's session. Please email me at rusty@radicalgeorgiamoderate.org if you'd like to get involved.
Feb 17, 2007 Georgia Political Digest.com Opinion
Today is the 17th legislative day of the session. It is called Family Day so that legislators can bring their wives and kids up for the day and show our family atmosphere. However I do not bring my family due to the spectacle presented by the fringe groups in front of our children. You have Labor Unions, “Working Families” wanting minimum wage increases, marches for racial equality, and the worst is GSLBT groups that try to prove they are families too(by exposing our young children to them kissing and holding hands).
A racial equality march! Noooooooooooooooo!!! He also gets bonus hypocrisy points for being a staunch opponent of commuter rail while standing to financially gain from killing rail projects. Well-played sir.
