Mama said there'd be days like this. - Move over Rover. That's right, into the broom closets, so we have room for the Gov.'s girth & GOP's arrogance.
Dick Pettys of the Associated Press reports:
[T]his week [there is a] major reshuffling of prime statehouse real estate.
In offices throughout the [Capitol], boxes were being filled and computers packed up in compliance with eviction orders given by leaders of the incoming - and historic - new Republican majority.
Much of Perdue's senior staff will be moving from cramped space on the Capitol's second floor to the bigger first-floor offices now occupied by the Legislative Budget Office, an agency which Democrats used as a check against the governor's budget power.
The Legislative Budget Office is moving to a state building across the street, where its role likely will be reduced.
House Republicans will gain the Capitol space Perdue's staff is vacating, while the Senate will get the first floor Capitol space from which Secretary of State Cathy Cox's press office is being evicted.
The new legislative office space is in addition to the numerous offices already held by the House and Senate on the third and fourth floors of the gold-domed statehouse, and likely will be used as additional office space for deserving legislators whose offices now are across the street, with the rank and file.
If location is everything in real estate, it is especially so for legislative offices.
"Proximity is power, or the perception of power," acknowledged Senate President Pro Tem Eric Johnson, R-Savannah.
But if having a Capitol office is a desirable thing, that's not what the reshuffling is all about, said Johnson, who negotiated the reorganization of space with Perdue and House Speaker-elect Glenn Richardson, R-Dallas.
"We're trying to make the most efficient operations we can to run state government," he said.
Perdue spokesman Dan McLagan described the reorganization as a way to consolidate the governor's aides in closer proximity to each other.
But Rep. DuBose Porter, D-Dublin, said he finds that argument strange.
"What is unusual is the additional amount of space the governor is taking over in the Capitol, and that he's doing it in the name of reducing state government. Visually, it makes them look more expansive," he said.
Porter is among the Democrats being evicted from his Capitol office. Currently the Speaker pro-tem with a nice office on the statehouse's third floor, he soon will be moving to the Legislative Office Building across the street.
"The Legislative Office Building's not so bad," he said. "I've been over there before."
After a pause, he said that at least the offices "are bigger than broom closets."
(12-29-04 AP.)
[T]his week [there is a] major reshuffling of prime statehouse real estate.
In offices throughout the [Capitol], boxes were being filled and computers packed up in compliance with eviction orders given by leaders of the incoming - and historic - new Republican majority.
Much of Perdue's senior staff will be moving from cramped space on the Capitol's second floor to the bigger first-floor offices now occupied by the Legislative Budget Office, an agency which Democrats used as a check against the governor's budget power.
The Legislative Budget Office is moving to a state building across the street, where its role likely will be reduced.
House Republicans will gain the Capitol space Perdue's staff is vacating, while the Senate will get the first floor Capitol space from which Secretary of State Cathy Cox's press office is being evicted.
The new legislative office space is in addition to the numerous offices already held by the House and Senate on the third and fourth floors of the gold-domed statehouse, and likely will be used as additional office space for deserving legislators whose offices now are across the street, with the rank and file.
If location is everything in real estate, it is especially so for legislative offices.
"Proximity is power, or the perception of power," acknowledged Senate President Pro Tem Eric Johnson, R-Savannah.
But if having a Capitol office is a desirable thing, that's not what the reshuffling is all about, said Johnson, who negotiated the reorganization of space with Perdue and House Speaker-elect Glenn Richardson, R-Dallas.
"We're trying to make the most efficient operations we can to run state government," he said.
Perdue spokesman Dan McLagan described the reorganization as a way to consolidate the governor's aides in closer proximity to each other.
But Rep. DuBose Porter, D-Dublin, said he finds that argument strange.
"What is unusual is the additional amount of space the governor is taking over in the Capitol, and that he's doing it in the name of reducing state government. Visually, it makes them look more expansive," he said.
Porter is among the Democrats being evicted from his Capitol office. Currently the Speaker pro-tem with a nice office on the statehouse's third floor, he soon will be moving to the Legislative Office Building across the street.
"The Legislative Office Building's not so bad," he said. "I've been over there before."
After a pause, he said that at least the offices "are bigger than broom closets."
(12-29-04 AP.)
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