You say yes, I say no. - A South Ga. editor warns that "folks will soon be hunting down the Georgia GOP with dogs." More on SB 5 and the Dean.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution article in the caption describes me as "a moderate-to-conservative Democrat."
My readers know I post Bill Shipp's work a lot, and I agree with just about everything my mentor has to say. Does that make him moderate-to-conservative?
Just ask the people of Georgia.
Down my way his views are considered -- as reflected in the below editorial -- as being liberal. This summer I ran across folks whose feelings about him ran the gamut from praise to contempt, and who considered his views as ranging from being communist to being way too moderate.
More about Mr. Shipp below. Now to this editorial from a newspaper in Secretary of State Cathy Cox's hometown of Bainbridge. The topic, SB 5, the bill that is the subject of the preceding post featuring Mr. Shipp's column.
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That proverbial truth
By Sam Griffin, Jr., Editor and Publisher
The Post-Searchlight (of Bainbridge)
January 25, 2005
The editor of this newspaper is usually at such political odds with his friend and esteemed columnist Bill Shipp—whose column regularly appears on this page as the liberal contributor—that when the editor discovers himself in agreement with the Prestigious Pundit from Peachtree, the first thing he does is reassess his own position. Having done that with Mr. Shipp’s column that appears at right, the editor is compelled to declare that the Rt. Rev. Mr. Shipp has hit the nail right on the thumb [dismissing only the columnist’s obligatory need to bash conservatives in general and Republicans in particular—all the way back to Abe Lincoln’s time]. Even the busted hog, as Willie Highgrass says, roots up an acorn twice a day. This is that day.
The idea embodied in SB 5, touted by Senate President Pro Tem Eric Johnson, R-Savannah, to allow state and local governments to use the power of eminent domain to seize private property and turn it over to private developers for private commercial purposes is the most outrageously repugnant piece of legislative claptrap since the Yazoo Land Fraud. It is neither a conservative principle nor consistent with the president’s concept of an “ownership generation”—and if Gov. Perdue and responsible Republican leadership do not immediately repudiate, quash and bury forever this travesty, folks will soon be hunting down the Georgia GOP with dogs.
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An unnecessary reminder of my own feelings about Bill Shipp, the Dean of Politics and Journalism in Georgia, are contained in my 10-24-04 post in which I wrote:
"The readers of this blog know I have my opinion on matters, and do not mind sharing them. And while I enjoy reading and appreciate the insight and inside knowledge that many of you have shared with me by e-mail since I started this blog in August, there is one voice I respect above all others. You got it, the Dean.
"If he says it, I take it to the bank. With all due respect to all of the great commentators and writers about Georgia politics, this individual is in a class all by himself. He has forgotten more than the rest know.
"I have said it once and will say it many more times. They don't call him the Dean for nothing."
"[C]an't you appreciate, to change the words from Bye Bye Birdie a bit, why I can't help but feel:
"We love you Dean
Oh yes we do
We love Dean
If you say it, we know its true
When you're not writing
We're blue
Oh, Dean, we love you."
My readers know I post Bill Shipp's work a lot, and I agree with just about everything my mentor has to say. Does that make him moderate-to-conservative?
Just ask the people of Georgia.
Down my way his views are considered -- as reflected in the below editorial -- as being liberal. This summer I ran across folks whose feelings about him ran the gamut from praise to contempt, and who considered his views as ranging from being communist to being way too moderate.
More about Mr. Shipp below. Now to this editorial from a newspaper in Secretary of State Cathy Cox's hometown of Bainbridge. The topic, SB 5, the bill that is the subject of the preceding post featuring Mr. Shipp's column.
_______________
That proverbial truth
By Sam Griffin, Jr., Editor and Publisher
The Post-Searchlight (of Bainbridge)
January 25, 2005
The editor of this newspaper is usually at such political odds with his friend and esteemed columnist Bill Shipp—whose column regularly appears on this page as the liberal contributor—that when the editor discovers himself in agreement with the Prestigious Pundit from Peachtree, the first thing he does is reassess his own position. Having done that with Mr. Shipp’s column that appears at right, the editor is compelled to declare that the Rt. Rev. Mr. Shipp has hit the nail right on the thumb [dismissing only the columnist’s obligatory need to bash conservatives in general and Republicans in particular—all the way back to Abe Lincoln’s time]. Even the busted hog, as Willie Highgrass says, roots up an acorn twice a day. This is that day.
The idea embodied in SB 5, touted by Senate President Pro Tem Eric Johnson, R-Savannah, to allow state and local governments to use the power of eminent domain to seize private property and turn it over to private developers for private commercial purposes is the most outrageously repugnant piece of legislative claptrap since the Yazoo Land Fraud. It is neither a conservative principle nor consistent with the president’s concept of an “ownership generation”—and if Gov. Perdue and responsible Republican leadership do not immediately repudiate, quash and bury forever this travesty, folks will soon be hunting down the Georgia GOP with dogs.
_______________
An unnecessary reminder of my own feelings about Bill Shipp, the Dean of Politics and Journalism in Georgia, are contained in my 10-24-04 post in which I wrote:
"The readers of this blog know I have my opinion on matters, and do not mind sharing them. And while I enjoy reading and appreciate the insight and inside knowledge that many of you have shared with me by e-mail since I started this blog in August, there is one voice I respect above all others. You got it, the Dean.
"If he says it, I take it to the bank. With all due respect to all of the great commentators and writers about Georgia politics, this individual is in a class all by himself. He has forgotten more than the rest know.
"I have said it once and will say it many more times. They don't call him the Dean for nothing."
"[C]an't you appreciate, to change the words from Bye Bye Birdie a bit, why I can't help but feel:
"We love you Dean
Oh yes we do
We love Dean
If you say it, we know its true
When you're not writing
We're blue
Oh, Dean, we love you."
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