Sunday, January 17, 2010
News Streetalk: How does your home state legislature differ from Georgia's?
Posted by Jeff Slate on Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 1:00 PM
Sarah: Vermont legislators are way more aware of what's going on in the world, like with the environment. You don't have an old mentality like in Georgia. In Georgia, they're not looking to change or improve but rather to settle and deal. One example the Vermont legislators are doing is legalizing marijuana. To Georgia, marijuana is a drug, not a plant. Georgia is so rock where Vermont is air. [Vermont] moves and adapts as to what's going on, where the Georgia Legislature is just solid and stuck. I love Georgia, but it's a completely different world now and it freaks them out.
Steve: Maryland is overwhelmingly Democratic and progressive, Georgia is overwhelmingly Republican and conservative. With the Georgia Legislature, I can't support some of the gun laws or the horrible budgetary idea where in a time when we need to balance the budget because of spending, we're going to cut taxes and somehow magically find more money. In Maryland, they understand that raising taxes is sometimes unfortunate but necessary for getting money in and for making money, because money doesn't magically appear. I moved down here for college, but I'm staying for the politics. Georgia needs my help more than Maryland does.
Nikema: Surprisingly, I moved from Alabama to Georgia thinking it would be much more progressive. But then I moved here when the [ban on] gay marriage amendment was being voted on. In Alabama, the Legislature didn't even allow it to go to a vote. The Alabama state Legislature stopped it from being even allowed to go to a floor vote, while Georgia allowed the amendment to be voted in the House and Senate and to go on the ballot, an amendment to restrict people's right and freedoms. There went my theory of Georgia being more progressive than Alabama.
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