Good job fellas, keep up the good work. Cox & Taylor slug it out in '06 - Winner: Perdue. Porter & Baker slug it out in '09. Winner . . . .
Have you guys forgotten the Cox-Taylor cannibalism of 2006? The vicious primary battle left the Democratic candidate battered and discredited.
From InsiderAdvantage Georgia:
There’s more finger-pointing underway in the tri-state water wars, this time Democrat vs. Democrat.
Rep. DuBose Porter, a Democratic candidate for governor, is putting some of the blame for the state’s reverses on fellow Democrat and rival for the party’s gubernatorial nomination, Thurbert Baker. A Baker spokesman fired back that Porter was part of the crowd that let the issue languish for years.
Porter said in a statement issued through his campaign to do that the only result of Georgia’s litigation over the water wars so far has been to fatten Baker’s campaign treasury through contributions from the outside lawyers he’s hired to handle the case.
Baker's campaign manager, Jeff DiSantis, responded with this statement:
“Governor after governor, legislature after legislature, year after year, politicians have done nothing about this water crisis. That's why the matter is now in the hands of the courts. The attorney general will defend the water rights of the people of Georgia, and he won't be lectured about it by the same politicians who did nothing about the water problem for years.”
Speaking of Georgia's water plan, Porter noted that:
Georgia should go to the downstream states and to residents of south Georgia and begin new discussions. “Everyone has a right and an interest in a reasonable use of water-that is ancient common law, and it provides a solid basis for working out the problems of rights to our rivers.”
DuBose, forget your hints to Georgia politicians about coming south to take our water and your lawyer talk about common law water rights. Dublin might not be in South Georgia, but it's next door in Middle Georgia, and both areas share the Floridan Aquifer, which you are inviting metro politicians and Georgia voters to come take. Forget it.
When it comes to discussions with the Other Georgia, Georgia no longer discusses. It dictates.
From InsiderAdvantage Georgia:
There’s more finger-pointing underway in the tri-state water wars, this time Democrat vs. Democrat.
Rep. DuBose Porter, a Democratic candidate for governor, is putting some of the blame for the state’s reverses on fellow Democrat and rival for the party’s gubernatorial nomination, Thurbert Baker. A Baker spokesman fired back that Porter was part of the crowd that let the issue languish for years.
Porter said in a statement issued through his campaign to do that the only result of Georgia’s litigation over the water wars so far has been to fatten Baker’s campaign treasury through contributions from the outside lawyers he’s hired to handle the case.
Baker's campaign manager, Jeff DiSantis, responded with this statement:
“Governor after governor, legislature after legislature, year after year, politicians have done nothing about this water crisis. That's why the matter is now in the hands of the courts. The attorney general will defend the water rights of the people of Georgia, and he won't be lectured about it by the same politicians who did nothing about the water problem for years.”
Speaking of Georgia's water plan, Porter noted that:
Georgia should go to the downstream states and to residents of south Georgia and begin new discussions. “Everyone has a right and an interest in a reasonable use of water-that is ancient common law, and it provides a solid basis for working out the problems of rights to our rivers.”
DuBose, forget your hints to Georgia politicians about coming south to take our water and your lawyer talk about common law water rights. Dublin might not be in South Georgia, but it's next door in Middle Georgia, and both areas share the Floridan Aquifer, which you are inviting metro politicians and Georgia voters to come take. Forget it.
When it comes to discussions with the Other Georgia, Georgia no longer discusses. It dictates.
posted by Sid Cottingham | 9:04 PM
2 Comments:
Insisting that a candidate for Governor who is concerned about an issue "pull his punches" when a rival candidate, from any party, is playing a key role in that issue, in this case, enabling a continuing execution of poor policy, is a demand for more bad policy.
The Attorney General has chosen to go along with the Metro Atlanta developers' strategy of wildly overestimating Metro's future needs for water from the Chattahoochee River, and has paid outside counsel over $6 million to defend that losing position. Of course the downstream states, and Georgians who live downstream, are alarmed, Metro Atlanta is threatening to dry them out during drought periods of low flow.
Dubose Porter agrees with Sonny Perdue in one regard: there is enough water for all users. But there is not enough water for the Metro Atlanta Developers' growth fantasy projections. When that untenable negotiating position is finally abandoned, a settlement of the distribution of the waters of the Chattahoochee and Flint, and the Coosa and Tallapoosa, will be a simple matter of reasonable negotiation among all users, upstream and down, Georgia and the downstream states, according to basic principles of riparian rights.
Those same common law water rights are among the strongest protections available to the uses of groundwater in the two thirds of Georgia that depend on those vital systems. People who live on or above water have a right to a reasonable use of it; people who don't live there have no such right. Metro Atlanta's crystaline rock aquifers are not connected to the limestone aquifers that underlie most of the state's land area; Metro has no right to those waters. The fact that some streams flowing through Metro Atlanta recharge some of the middle and south Georgia limestone aquifers implies no right to Metro users that they can restrict those recharging flows.
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