{"id":297,"date":"2012-12-04T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/georgia-statehouse-and-the-anti-sustainability-astroturf-talking-points-aka-agenda-21.html"},"modified":"2012-12-04T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T13:00:00","slug":"georgia-statehouse-and-the-anti-sustainability-astroturf-talking-points-aka-agenda-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/georgia-statehouse-and-the-anti-sustainability-astroturf-talking-points-aka-agenda-21.html","title":{"rendered":"Georgia statehouse and the anti-sustainability astroturf talking points (aka &#8220;Agenda 21&#8221;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nSomebody wrote me a week or two ago:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/10\/alecs-our-state-legislators-behind-multi-year-ga-constitutional-amendment-referendum.html\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"    class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017ee5e0474c970d\" height=\"195\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017ee5e0474c970d-pi.jpg\" width=\"136\" \/><\/a>\nI saw in todays paper Chip Rogers and other Senate leadership was changed yesterday.\nThank goodness!\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nWell, don&#39;t cheer too soon.\nAccording to Jim Galloway in the AJC\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/political-insider-jim-galloway\/2012\/11\/15\/david-shafer-ronnie-chance-new-gop-senate-leaders\/\">\n15 November 2012,<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n&quot;Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers of Woodstock withdrew his re-election\nbid and endorsed Ronnie Chance of Tyrone, the governor&#39;s floor leader,\nfor the position.&quot;\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/10\/alecs-our-state-legislators-behind-multi-year-ga-constitutional-amendment-referendum.html\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"    class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017d3e05c855970c\" height=\"209\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017d3e05c855970c-pi.jpg\" width=\"159\" \/><\/a>\nRonnie Chance is not only\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/04\/georgia-legislators-with-alec-ties-thomas-kirkpatrick.html\">\nalso ALEC,<\/a>\nChance is\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/10\/alecs-our-state-legislators-behind-multi-year-ga-constitutional-amendment-referendum.html\">\nthe other ALEC state Senator<\/a>\nwho put both the charter school amendment\nand the multi-year amendment on the ballot.\nIs this leadership &quot;change&quot; improvement?\nMeet the new boss; same as the old boss.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhy must we get fooled again?\nWhen will the people of the state of Georgia get tired of government\nby astroturf and elect some legislators who will represent the people?\n<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Somebody wrote me a week or two ago: I saw in todays paper Chip Rogers and other Senate leadership was changed yesterday. 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