Congressman Nathan Deal has resigned to run for governor.
A special election to fill Deal's seat will be held April 27.
"I will resign my House seat effective close of business Tuesday, March 23, 2010, in order to fill the unexpired term in the 9th District," Graves said. "This will enable the governor to schedule both the election to fill my House seat and the 9th District congressional seat on the same day and save taxpayer money.
“While qualifying for the congressional seat alone would have vacated my house seat, the timing would have been outside the window of opportunity to allow both elections to occur on the same date. Therefore, as a steward of the taxpayer, the prudent decision is to step down early and allow the Governor to set the special elections on the same day.
“Julie and I have been humbled and honored to have been given the opportunity to serve Gordon, Pickens and Bartow counties in the legislature. And, for that, we are forever grateful.
“I am pleased with the Governor’s selection of the earliest possible election date. My family and I look forward to the campaign and the opportunity to serve the people of Georgia’s 9th Congressional District.”
Qualifying for the congressional seat will take place March 29-31. Per state law, Graves would have automatically vacated his House seat upon qualifying. Resigning early allows the special elections for the Graves’ House seat and the 9th District Congressional seat to take place on the same day.
FTFY
Typical Democrat, Scream and point fingers. No original idea's other than another government program and takeover...whaaaa!!!Whaaaa!!Whaaa!!!
Tell us something new Larry.
This used to be sort of fun but now I realize that people who want to be ignorant will be, then its stupidty and the GOP loves stupid people, and Georgia, it must because look at all teh republicans elected from here. You can lead people to the truth but if they're so stupid they don't want to know the truth then they aren't worth leading. Good luck to all of you, you get what you deserve, the problem is your children will have to clean up your mess if you continue voting people like Deal and Perdue and Palin into office. I wish you every happpiness with your stupidity, I know you'll be very happy together.
Oh, and lets not forget the truthfulness of President Clinton.
Would you like a long list of lies and broken promises from the Obama administration.
If you think that Republicans are corrupt and Democrats are not, then you've been suckered.
The recession and depression thing can be countered with the 2 out of 3 of the biggest economic expansions were under GOP Presidents and the other was when Mr. Clinton was reigned in by a Gop Congress
Im a product of Baylor in Chattanooga. I really dont understand the County school System fixation? Did they turn you down for a band directing job??
I will give you a break..I will not count the 1870-2002 history of Georgia.We all know that every bad idea or law that happened in the Ga state government was the fault of a democrat.
They were in absoulte charge.So I will cut you a break.
But Now, Starting at the top. If I were running against any democrat. I would marry them to the most unqualified individual to ever hold the highest office in American History.
From Governor down to School Board...
I dont think you want to get into a name dropping contest of bad politicans.Democrats have had thier fare share, ie Lester Maddux... and J.B. Stoner.
Travis Fain - Macon News
Gov. Sonny Perdue's budget proposals don't include state funding for homestead exemption grants, meaning local governments are going to have to raise taxes, cut millions in spending.
Either that, or state legislators are going to have to find hundreds of millions of dollars to fill the hole Perdue's budget leaves -- a difficult prospect since Perdue has already cut more than $2 billion from the state budget to deal with falling revenues.
Theres one source..By the Way Sugar Valley, I know who are.
When and where did Tom Graves make such a statement. If you want to look at reprehensible behaviour, look at the White House. President Obama promised C-Span coverage, didn't happen. He promised 5 days for the public to review legislation, didn't happen. Do you need sources?
Fact:
1) Republican Tom Graves crows unemployed people are leaches.
That's After the Bush administration strutted out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper.
New Democrats pity the lack of understanding by this self-important little man Tom Graves.