Tom Price, the Republic congressman from Roswell, has become quite the political attack dog since he left the Georgia Senate for the U.S. House. He has reached that point in his political maturity where, if Nancy Pelosi were to make the comment that the sun rises in the east, Price would issue a statement insisting that the sun rises in the west and smearing Pelosi as a fascistic communist for daring to suggest otherwise.
Price was in typical form the other day when Vice President Joe Biden traveled to Georgia to announce that $42 million in federal and state funds would be forthcoming to build a fiber optic network providing broadband access in several North Georgia counties.
Price promptly issued a standard caucus broadside against Biden: “Mr. Biden is quick to publicize the buckets of borrowed cash he’s handing out today. But will he look Georgians in the eye on Tax Day when they are forced to pick up the tab?”
Price would have been well-advised to check that statement with Gov. Sonny Perdue before releasing it. That’s the same Perdue who is also a GOP politician and once served alongside Price in the state Senate.
Perdue’s communications office publicized the Biden visit in very positive terms before the vice president arrived in Georgia. Perdue also participated in the Biden news conference where the funding for the fiber optic network was announced. Perdue’s office issued a statement of its own pointing out that the governor was providing state funds that would be combined with the federal funds announced by Biden.
If you read Perdue’s statement, you would come away with the definite impression that the governor was quite happy to have Biden promise all that federal money to Georgia:
Vice President Joe Biden joined Governor Sonny Perdue today to announce a total of $42 million in local, state, federal and private funding to create a 260-mile fiber optic loop that will enable broadband access through eight North Georgia counties . . .
Governor Perdue has been a strong advocate for Georgia broadband projects in discussions with Vice President Biden and in letters to U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.
I have friends who’ve been telling me for a long time that Price is a dishonest douchebag. After reading comments like his ill-informed attack on Biden, it’s difficult to disagree with them.
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