It does not appear likely that the General Assembly will enact major tax law revisions in 2012 given that there are some differences of opinion among the House and Senate leadership . . .
Legislative leaders do some more tweaking to the tax revision bill and say they have a version that Gov. Nathan Deal will support . . .
Bobby Franklin’s attempt to get the House to override a Sonny Perdue veto fails by a vote of 164-1 . . .
House Republicans beat back a challenge from the Christian Right/Tea Party faction, electing Larry O’Neal as majority leader over James Mills . . .
House and Senate Republicans are caucusing to finalize their slate of leaders before the Legislature convenes in January; what will be the fate of Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle? . . .
A new analysis from the Pew Hispanic Center indicates that the influx of undocumented immigrants into Georgia and the U.S. has slowed in recent years . . .
Tax revision council begins its task of reviewing and recommending changes to the Georgia tax code . . .
A few days before Republican members of the Georgia House caucused to nominate a replacement for the lobbyist-romancing Glenn Richardson as speaker, a Democratic strategist summed up the worst-case scenario for his party: “The worst thing that could happen to Democrats is for Republicans to elect someone honest as speaker,” he said.
The attempt by Republican members of the Georgia House to elect a new speaker and clean up the mess created by the Glenn Richardson scandal is dredging up another controversy from the recent past: the stealth maneuverings to give Gov. Sonny Perdue an undisclosed tax break that was worth $100,000 to the governor.
