Now we understand more about why the Governor does not want to address legislation change to make the Board of Regents accountable to someone other than themselves – he would be biting the hand that will be feeding him!

Now we understand why the Governor has chosen to look the other way and not question the Board of Regents about documented unethical practices known campus-wide for years at Macon State College and covered up by the very people at the Board of Regents that would appoint him!!

Now we understand why the Governor stated in his 10 August 2009 that the Board of Regents has “exclusive authority” to do what they want with state and foundation funds – he does not want
to “ROCK THE BOAT”…….as he is hoping to “board” that boat (no pun intended) after his term as Governor!!

Sonny Perdue, Roy Barnes and small-ball politics
10:53 am August 22, 2009, by Jim Galloway
Travis Fain, who writes the Lucid Idiocy blog for the Macon Telegraph, was at Hartsfield-Jackson on Thursday evening, waiting for the Warner Robins girl softball team to return from their World Series championship a continent away.

Commnet from “SonnyGoFish”
August 23rd, 2009
7:18 pm
Provided he is not in prison for his many illegal dealings while in the Governor’s office, Sonny has already been manuvering for his next gig ….. President of the University of Georgia. The=2 0price of admission to a seat on the Board of Regents is a promise to vote for Sonny as the next President of UGA. The job pays over $600K and Sonny has lost his ass investing with Stan Thomas in questionable real estate investments,
Most folks probably didn’t pay much attention to an obscure policy change at the Board of Regents meeting last week.

The Search Committee to fill vacancies is now selected by the Regents and not by the Chancellor anymore. Hmmmmm. Anybody want to guess who will chair the Search Committee??? You guessed it …. none other than good ol’ Lar-ray Wall- ker, childhood friend and fellow real estate investor.

If anybody needed another reason the vote for Roy Barnes, then that should do it! A Barnes victory OR an FEDERAL INDICTMENT by the new US Attorney are the only things that will save the UGA from a Sonny Perdue screw-up. Just wait and see.

Sonny Perdue began his second term under a cloud of allegations pertaining to questionable land deals in Houston County, Florida, as well as a customized tax break for the Houston County transaction.

Formal complaints about his misuse of the Governor’s office were quickly dismissed by the Republican controlled General Assembly. The fact laden complaint was then submitted to the office of the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia and nothing has been heard of it since. That office was headed by David Nahmias, who was appointed last Thursday by Perdue to fill an open seat on the Georgia Supreme Court.

Comingle Perdue’s steadfast refusal to aswer lingering questions about his actions with his appointment of Nahmias to the state’s highest court with no prior judicial experience and questions are bound to come to mind.