Porter: Perdue a do-nothing governor

2010 gubernatorial candidate and state Rep. DuBose Porter, D-Dublin, released this yesterday, but I neglected to put it up. I believe the upshot is that he doesn't think much of Gov. Sonny Perdue and his policies:

Sonny Perdue has declared that Georgia's drought is over, and that watering restrictions are now lifted. What happened to the "Culture of Conservation" he promised a few months ago?

The hallmark of the Perdue Administration is always the same: when confronted with any problem, first, deny it, then when denying won't work any longer, claim that you are solving it. Then just forget all about it, and wait until your term ends.

Georgia is going to have another drought. Sonny Perdue is leaving us no more prepared for the next drought than he prepared us for the drought that has just mercifully ended. There are proven cost-effective policies, conservation incentives for one that are readily available.

Sonny's "Culture of Conservation" has always been just talk. Actually conserving is left up to local governments, and he has tied their hands with a state law that won’t let them impose more stringent rules than the state has imposed.

Georgians have shown that they are eager to do the right thing to assure that they have enough clean water. They want to plan for a future that anticipates, instead of reacts to droughts. But Sonny has set up a water planning system that is designed to promote conflict among water users. Instead of logically following the river basin lines, Sonny has drawn political lines across river basins that guarantee conflicts among regions.

If water policy were the only area of policy in which Sonny Perdue's strategy is to make empty talk and hope no one notices it would be bad enough, but this has become the entire Perdue program on water, transportation, education and the economy: "Do nothing. Promise much. Wait until the term is over."

That's some good rock throwing from the minority leader.