A Tale of Two Leaders, Lt. Gov. Casey Cagel and House Speaker Glenn Richardson.

As this year's session of the General Assembly is winding down and we reflect on how Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle has emerged as a big winner and House Speaker Glenn Richardson has not fared too well, let's not forget the tone in the House and among GOP legislators that Rep. Richardson set during the first week of the General Assembly as reported by Tom Crawford of Capitol Impact in Georgia Trend:

During the first week of the General Assembly, House Speaker Glenn Richardson reminded everyone that the speaker has a lot of power to hurt people. Richardson and the House leadership came down especially hard on Rep. Mack Crawford (R-Concord), a moderate Republican from West Georgia. Crawford chaired the Appropriations Committee’s subcommittee on judicial agencies last session, but was stripped of the chairmanship and evicted from his second floor capitol office (whereupon he was banished to new digs in the Legislative Office Building across the street). Crawford’s transgression? He didn’t pay the monetary assessment to Richardson’s political fund that is expected of each committee chairman – a sum of $70,000.