Mark Burkhalter yanks name from consideration for World Congress job
Some morning tidbits in the aftermath of House Speaker Glenn Richardson’s resignation:
– We’re told that Speaker pro tem Mark Burkhalter of Johns Creek, who will succeed Richardson on Jan. 1, withdrew his name Thursday as a finalist in the search for a new executive director of the Georgia World Congress Center. The post carried a salary of several hundred thousand dollars a year.
Consider the move a sign that he intends to make the speakership a permanent calling.
– Related to that, in that 4 p.m. conference call, we’re told that House Majority Leader Jerry Keen expressed what might be called tentative support for Burkhalter as the new leader of the House. For the moment, we do not have a race for speaker.
– We’re hearing from lawmakers that Richardson, in that conference call, went into uncomfortable detail about his marriage with Susan Richardson, who on Monday blew the whistle on his affair with an AGL lobbyist. Far too much information for some of the listeners.
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Same Song, Different Verse
December 4th, 2009
10:12 am
Like the Bible says: “Pride goeth before the fall.”
Some things about human nature are unchangeable through the ages.
Dafuskie Island
December 4th, 2009
10:18 am
Happy Days Are Here Again!!!
We’re still open for business and expect to see a lot of traffic during the holidays. Nothing has changed under the gold dome so we should be doin OK….
Ira in East Lake
December 4th, 2009
10:19 am
That’s one immoral ba$tard down. How many to go?
oldmactech
December 4th, 2009
10:19 am
Another step closer to Milton County. All you ITP’ers need to start saving your money.
JH
Dan Dawg
December 4th, 2009
10:31 am
Just more of the same ol’, same ol’ hypocrisy from the Republican leadership. Richardson was trying to screw Georgians with an unnecessary $350 million gas pipeline at taxpayer expense, all because he was getting screwed. Sex in exchange for higher taxes for us all — how conservative. This behavior is inexcusable and should take precedence over his personal relationships.
GoGetGlennMark
December 4th, 2009
10:56 am
Sure would help rightsider credibility if Mark requests criminal prosecution of Glenn. Just don’t count on it happening. Big bad talk, but no can do. That’s the rightsiders albatross.
Sad
December 4th, 2009
11:24 am
The Flat Earth Society continues it’s death grip on Georgia. Their mantra of endless tax cuts for cronies, privatization of state functions/property at the taxpayers’ expense with huge profits flowing to “private partners” (cronies) with no public oversight, the creation of more and more political kingdoms (John’s Creek, Milton, Milton Co.) while at the same time laying off and furloughing thousands of critical state workers in their endless effort to destroy state government and continue Georgia’s slide into third world status. These are not enlightened men. They are men who seek office to line their pockets and strut around like bantam roosters to impress each other. They have no concern for public interest.
RetiredSoldier
December 4th, 2009
11:25 am
Besides you Ira?
bulldog
December 4th, 2009
11:39 am
Hopefully he will appoint at least one new committee chair-Appropriations (the commitee that doles out the pork or porks the Ham).The current chair is another Glenn Richardson scandal waiting to explode.
Will Jones - A Northsider
December 4th, 2009
12:32 pm
The Gay Old Perverts may “strut around like bantam roosters,” but they are nothing but deviant, adulterating capons, with plenty just like them – draft-dodgers, phony soldier wannabes, traitors and false patriots, continuing to support them even after their immorality is an established fact.
Annuit Coeptis – Those without G-d or acting ungodly, are not American. Birds of Feather.
Rally Georgia! Rally America! Rally Atlanta!
Death for Treason that the Roman Anti-Christ and its “Fifth Column” pervert minions be expropriated, banished, and extirpated from Our Land, by G-d.
RetiredSoldier
December 4th, 2009
1:09 pm
Will-
Let’s see, republicans are deviant (married almot 40 years) Draftdodgers (didn’t dodge the draft, I enlisted) Phony soliders (I retired a LTC) traitors (in my old age I would whip you if you said that to my face) false patriotrs?( and what have you done for your country in your life?)
Not all republicans are good or bad, same for democrats. Get a life buddy.
ieee
December 4th, 2009
1:26 pm
Now what can be done to get rid of the rest of the Georgia legislature’s “leadership”? Since Jerry Keen was mentioned, I would like to post a short post that I made in a different forum recently. There are some interesting facts in it about Keen’s lack of morals. Here it is:
Ah, Jerry Keen, Georgia’s number 1 criminal legislator. The one who worked so hard to pass so many laws that he KNEW were illegal. One of Georgia’s criminal legislators who thought it was just fine to force Georgia families from homes that they owned, all for no legitimate reason. He MUST also have known that his laws would in fact put children in more danger than they were. All experts told him that at least.
Has anyone in the history of Georgia had more laws overturned than Criminal Keen? Has anyone written more worse-than-worthless and counterproductive laws? It’s hard to imagine.
If you need to understand what kind of “person” Criminal Keen is, all you have to do is look at his actions when he was trying to pass his “Sex Offender” laws. Is was quite apparent that he is a person that is nearly unhinged, an anti-reality zealot.
He just came right out and said that a major goal of his laws was to drive people listed on Sex Offender Registries out of Georgia. It’s hard to fathom that any decent legislator/leader/person could possibly have that as a goal. He was saying that he thinks people listed on the Registries are a real scourge and danger to society, so much so that they must be monitored every second. So, his “solution” to that problem is to push those people off onto other people? Move the problem somewhere else?
Is that how Criminal Keen solves all of his problems? By pushing them off onto someone else? Wow, that is real leadership. He calls himself a Christian too. Yeah, I don’t think so. Real leaders solve problems, they don’t push them onto other people. You won’t find any informed people who will say his laws solved any problem. Keen didn’t solve any problems but he created plenty.
And as if his first round of “Sex Offender” law stupidity was not enough, he came back around during a subsequent legislative session to add more. That was when he added his “bus stop” Banishment against people on the Registries. Did anyone read the opinion piece that he wrote for the Atlanta-Journal Constitution in support of that bit of stupidity? In it, he hysterically and theatrically described how without his law a very young child (believe he said 6 years old) would be forced to walk to his/her bus stop in the early morning darkness RIGHT PAST A SEX OFFENDER’S HOME!!!!!! (have to say that with the appropriate level of hysteria)
The big question I had about that was – does Keen really believe that is a problem or does he really think that Georgia citizens are so thoroughly stupid that they would read that and think “oh yeah, we need bus stop Banishment”? The reality was that anyone in their right mind was thinking “Who the F would allow a young child to walk to their bus stop alone and remain there unsupervised?” The stupidity of that whole law is just too difficult to comprehend. Oh, BTW, that wasn’t the only gem that Keen offered up in his opinion piece. You really ought to read it to get an idea what he’s about.
If Keen had any sense, he would have passed a law that would have required that parents/guardians supervise their children in transit and at bus stops. Now that is a law that would actually do something. Even I, as one of the great Unwashed who is listed on a Registry, did that. I didn’t even consider thinking that the nanny state was somehow going to be “protecting” my children and certainly not by such an idiotic method as moving all the “bad guys” away from my children’s bus stop. It’s stupefying.
The fact is, Georgia doesn’t need the kind of “leadership” that Criminal Keen inflicts. He is a disgrace certainly to Christians and Republicans (He is the EXACT kind of person who so polarizes people against those groups.). He is no less of a disgrace to American principles and decent people in general.
bulldog
December 4th, 2009
3:18 pm
icee- took valuable time away from your child porn to type this garbage?
Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis
December 4th, 2009
5:13 pm
“Not all republicans are good or bad, same for democrats. Get a life buddy,” apparently typed by the same poster, dismissive of further investigation of the overt cabal of adulterers, bribe-takers, traitors, corrupt politicians and phony no-men represented by Glenn Richardson and his Birds of Feather now making excuses for him: Viz. “Besides you Ira?”
Those who violate holy elected office and The Public Trust are traitors and should be put to death to encourage others to avoid such conduct.
All those who supported Bush and Cheney after their committing 9/11 are bad. Bad, whether just stupid Pollyannas, or bad, as in satanic Anti-Christ risen in America to destroy The Dream and to re-enslave mankind on behalf of Rome. Bad, either way.
You call yourself “soldier” and vaunt your “long green” status, so all here know you took The Oath to protect and defend The Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Do you yet support Bush and Cheney, or now try to deny that you voted for them, traitors against The People and The Constitution, twice?
Plenty of morons are retired Army Officers, take money from The People’s Treasury, and still support Bush’s and Cheney’s treason…and adulterating perverts like Glenn Richardson.
G-d knows whether you are included in that group.
$$$
December 4th, 2009
7:55 pm
Burkhalter obviously feels that he can make more than “several hundred thousand dollars per year” as Speaker. And all that wonderful PAC money sloshing around. Some of it is bound to end up in strange hidden places. Pubic service is a lucrative calling it seems.
Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis
December 4th, 2009
9:32 pm
Violate the Public Trust? Hang ‘em.
VDog
December 5th, 2009
10:07 am
There you have it, the same fear mongering politicians who push for no mercy laws such as the Sex Offender Registration laws and Restrictions, pandering to the hysterical and uninformed through the sensationalist media just to maintain their political power, (there is no other reason since time and again these laws have been proven to be ineffective, unconstitutional and in fact more harmful and dangerous to society) are now caught with their pants down. The poor common man or women, even retroactively, have their and their families, lives destroyed for life. Even having their children’s security and lives placed in danger, in the name of protecting society from those who do not suppress their sexual desires, or have the need to urinate on a golf course, or sent a suggestive picture of themselves to their girl or boy friend, or God forbid had consensual sex with their 17 year old girl/boy friend when they were 18. The common man/women fail to repress their sexual urges, “to the gallows with them!” A politician or sports star, not so much.
Wil Jones Personal Physician
December 5th, 2009
3:10 pm
Apparently Will isn’t taking the meds I prescribed him.
The meds were supposed to make him see clearly.
Instead he continues his delusional rants with his tunnel vision view.
I can’t tell who is worse off, Richardson or Jones!
Keith Richard Radford Jr
December 6th, 2009
7:55 am
Any act is debatable; (Like crabs in a bucket) astoundingly this has been allowed to go on this long. The disgust come from prejudice not even being able to discuss the issue by ones own internal wiring like a maze of mixed nerve ending unable to function, the mind shuts down unable to have empathy for the situation like any rational issue. We don’t even have laws that make since or definitions that work within those laws. We still want people to say they are mentally ill for having sex. Sex is and will never be the end of life except in the minds of people not having it.
The paradigm is better heard through the conflict of religions where people acutely kill one another over sex, but the message is the same and itsen’t there a separation between curch/state? We have painted opinion with blood for far too long when the blood money is spent on punishment to the delight of the enforcers while the enforcers are exempt from their own laws which have no definition anymore. We still want people to say they are mentally ill for having sex, or not, when the inclination is to bow to authority, sex offten times becomes rape. I once had a woman ask if I was propositioning her by throwing pennies at her when I just wanted her to go away.
Till we see its kinda like headaches/backaches too someone who has never had one, and once you have you start thinking allot about what really matters in life and how so many can spend “our” lives fighting amongst “themselves” over things that really don’t amount to a hill of frijoles.
Keith Richard Radford Jr
December 6th, 2009
8:02 am
It is just a permanent under class designed by thouse who have been in control of everything for the wrong reasons and must be stopped now!
Duluth Prognostigator
December 7th, 2009
10:09 pm
To: Wil Jones – Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis, or Wil Jones – A Northsider, or Wil Jones – Ad Nauseum; Your physician is right. Take your medication and stay off your joints – you are smoking entirely too many and even your recreational meth is getting the worse end of it!
tcolkett
December 10th, 2009
9:31 am
Stepping down from the World Congress job certainly looked like his intention to take the Speakers job; however, he has now stepped down from that as well. I think he’s trying to avoid an public investigation and exposure of his own dealings with lobbyists which was second in volume only to Richardson. I’d like to see the AJC dig into that.