Friday, December 4, 2009
News Georgia: Where politicians' nicknames stick for their entire lives
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:00 PM
If you follow Georgia politics, you've come across the various men and women who opt to use nicknames in their professional lives.
In Marietta, there's Mayor-elect Steve "Thunder" Tumlin. The Georgia Public Service Commission has Lauren "Bubba" McDonald. There's "Able" Mable Thomas. James H. "Sloppy" Floyd. James "Bubber" Epps. Charles "Judy" Poag. In last year's DeKalb County elections, there was one candidate who included their cryptic nickname — "Angry Taxpayer" — on the ballot. There must be many others.
Gov. Sonny Perdue has made an excellent addition to the list. Today, Perdue appointed Frank "Chunk" Newman to serve as the Third Congressional District's representative on the State Board of Technical and Adult Education.
This is perhaps the best nickname we will come across for quite some time.
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Hehe. Read the tags at the bottom of the post, nast. I couldn't do it. Even embedded a video and everything. I'm weak, I tell you. Weak!
You can bet that starting next year, "Baby Ruth" will be part of the core curriculum for all technical and adult education programs in the state.
Data's lab funding is being eyed for budget cuts. "Pinchers of power!" UPDATE: IMDB tells me it's actually "pinchers of peril." That's one thing I wasn't expecting to learn today.
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