Earlier this week, we told you about a poll that showed Gov. Sonny Perdue largely undamaged by, and the Legislature taking a beating for, the budget squabble that has forced a special session.

While House Republicans have raised hell about Perdue’s veto of a $700 million budget bill, and the $142 million property tax rebate contained within, the issue hasn’t drifted much beyond the confines of the state Capitol. The public doesn’t know about it.

Jared Thomas and the Georgia chapter of Americans for Prosperity are out to change that. The anti-tax group has dropped a mailer that urges voters, in selected Republican-dominated districts across the state, to demand that their senators join House Speaker Glenn Richardson in attempting to override the governor’s veto.

The lead headline on the mailer: “When Georgia takes in more money than it needs, send it back to the taxpayers.”

A big “thank you” to my friends at the AFP for fighting the good fight.