Showing posts with label Roy Barnes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roy Barnes. Show all posts

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Barnes On Water

Jim Galloway has some very interesting reporting on remarks made by former Governor Roy Barnes at some real estate agent hootenanny.
The first thing we have to do is to locate every place that can store water north of Atlanta that does not have to be permitted by the Corps of Engineers.
He also has some interesting ideas on transportation.
I think that what we have to do is to elevate light rail over the interstate highways where we already have the right-of-ways. And every so many bridges, you retrofit the bridges to be stations above.
Barnes first administration was chocked full of ideas, some good, some bad. His opponents might have disagreed with him on the details but they could never accuse him of not thinking up ways to solve a fix. The fact is Sonny's election was less about competing ideas and more about portraying Barnes as a power-mad king.

Barnes entered the race by extending the velvet glove of humility, but he has not left behind his right hook of innovative thinking.

Thursday, June 04, 2009

Tell Us How You Really Feel

Tell us how you really feel, JMac.
We can leave aside the comedic value of a guy who last served in elected office in the 1990s running as the 'candidate for the future'...
Roy Barnes entry into the Governor's race is already firing the blood of people on all sides. Good lord, this is going to be fun.

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Oh Well

So much for writing about any other candidate today.

Barnes is in.