Standing against wasteful spending
Apr 14th 2007Jason Pyep0rk & News
We’d like to acknowledge the nine Representatives that voted for the amendment to cut $5 million designated to “Go Fish.”
On the Lakly Amendment
| Republican | Democrat |
| Davis | Abdul-Salaam |
| Lakly | Abrams |
| Fludd | |
| Jordan | |
| Randall | |
| Sinkfield | |
| Shipp |
We’d also like to acknowledge and thank the seven Representatives that voted against the pork laden FY 2008 budget.
On passage of HB 95 (FY 2008 budget)
| Republican | Democrat |
| Davis | Ashe |
| Franklin | Powell |
| Scott | Randall |
| Sinkfield |
We had heard rumors that as many as twelve Republicans were going to break against leadership and vote against the budget. It’s clear that leadership strong armed members to vote their way. Several sources at the capitol told us that for the first time since they can recall, leadership whipped the budget within their own caucus to make sure they had the votes for passage.
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Georgia Porkbusters » Dan Lakly - Friend of the Taxpayer on 29 Oct 2007 at 6:54 pm #
[…] the article says, he was a staunch fiscal conservative, and even sponsored an amendment to scrap “Go Fish” spending out of the FY 2008 appropriations […]