Pettys: The continuing struggle between the House & Senate for greater parity on budget issues & this year's slimmer budget (& my own "misstatement.")

Dick Pettys has penned a must read article in InsiderAdvantage Georgia entitled "Leaner Budget A Result Of Last Year's House-Senate Fight?"

This is really a big, big story, and Dick's historical insight and perspective is invaluable. Are we going to miss Dick Pettys or are we going to miss Dick Pettys?

In response to my post from yesterday, Dick let me know that he has agreed to work through the end of this year, but this most definitely will be his final year of covering the legislature.

Somehow I messed up the post by noting in the caption that Dick was retiring at the end of the legislative session, but correctly noted in the post that he would remain with InsiderAdvantage Georgia through the end of '08.

My explanation: I wrote about a lot of this in my blog. You know, I think that, a minor blip, you know, if I said something that, you know, I say a lot of things — millions of words a day — so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement.