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Legislative deja vu awaits session's start
By GREG BLUE STEIN
Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA - Another
round of legislation seeking
to require voters to show a
photo ID at the polls could
await lawmakers returning
to Atlanta in January, as do
changes to a new crackdown
on sex offenders.
Sound familiar? It should.
After both newly-passed
laws were picked apart by
the courts, state legislators
are considering tackling
them anew.
Republican Gov. Sonny
Perdue signaled he’s willing
to consider changes to a law
criticized by a federal judge
that would bar sex offenders
from living within 1,000 feet
of school bus stops. And leg
islators are hoping to bypass
the courts altogether by ask
ing voters directly if they
support requiring photo IDs
at the polls.
Republican leaders con
tend the recurring legis
lation is a symptom of a
deeper problem: Judges who
flout elected lawmakers by
tinkering with laws they
don’t like. And it could lead
to a new round of legislation
aimed at changing the way
the state’s judiciary does
business.
“I don’t think the
Legislature today can do
its job properly when it’s
worried about what the
judicial branch might do,”
said House Majority Leader
Jerry Keen. “If you can’t
win through the legislative
process, your next best hope
is to find a courtroom and a
judge that agrees with you.”
Democrats, who controlled
the statehouse for genera
tions before being ousted by
Republicans four years ago,
say the legal challenges are a
sign that the newly empow
ered GOP is crafting bad
legislation.
“It’s an example of the
Republican party overreach
ing,” said Robert Brown, the
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state Senate’s top Democrat.
“And the people of Georgia
aren’t going to be dictated
by a narrow-minded party.”
The loudest debate has cen
tered on the voter photo-ID
proposal, which lawmakers
passed in 2005. Supporters
said it was meant to pre
vent voter fraud, but critics
claimed it wqs designed to
disenfranchise minorities,
the poor and the elderly who
don’t have a driver’s license
or other valid government
issued ID.
U.S. District Judge Harold
Murphy struck down the
first version of the law, con
tending that it amounted to
an unconstitutional poll tax.
The Legislature addressed
his complaints in a subse
quent version, but he blocked
the law again in September,
saying the measure isn’t in
the public’s interest.
“It’s as though they’re
changing the rules every
year by which the game is
played,” said state Sen. Cecil
Staton, the sponsor of the
embattled legislation.
This year, the Macon
Republican is backing a con
stitutional amendment that
would empower legislators
to approve “procedures to
verify the identity of elec
tors.” Before that proposed
amendmen can go before
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voters though, it must be
approved by two-thirds of
lawmakers in both cham
bers.
Federal courts have also
scrutinized the state’s new
crackdown on sex offenders
that lawmakers overwhelm
ingly approved this year. The
law, which bans sex offend
ers from living, working and
loitering within 1,000 feet of
school bus stops and other
spots where children gather,
was challenged in June by
a host of civil rights groups
who said it was too restric
tive. Since then, U.S. District
Judge Clarence Cooper has
ruled the school bus stop
provision cannot be enforced
unless school boards official
ly designate the locations of
their stops, and a broader
ruling could be issued dur
ing the session.
House Speaker Glenn
Richardson said he’d be
willing to revisit the law
and Perdue, answering an
Associated Press question
naire before his re-election,
acknowledged that “efforts
to amend or perfect (the law)
might be necessary.”
Ruling Republicans can
count a few court success
es recently. The Georgia
Supreme Court backed a
plan to redistrict a state
Senate district that split the
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Democratic stronghold of
Athens in half. And the court
unanimously reinstated the
state’s constitutional ban on
gay marriage, reversing a
lower court judge’s ruling.
The challenges have come
with a price. The state has
spent more than $570,000
to defend the voter ID law,
which was mostly handled by
an outside lawyer, according
to records obtained by AP
from the Attorney General’s
Office. Defending the Senate
redistricting plan and the
gay marriage ban cost the
state about $25,000 total
because they were handled
in-house, said Russ Willard,
the office’s spokesman.
“It’s a waste of taxpayer
resources,” chided state Rep.
Calvin Smyre, a Columbus
Democrat.
In 2007, expect legislative
leaders to go further than
simply revisiting legislation.
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Obituaries
ELIZABETH A. RAWLS
WARNER ROBINS - Elizabeth A. Rawls, 92, passed away
Dec. 21. Funeral services were held Wednesday in the chapel
of Heritage Memorial Funeral Home.
Burial followed in Parkway Memorial
Gardens. Rev. Bill Bagwell officiated.
Rawls was born in Louisville, Ky., to
the late Owsley and Maude Allen Akin.
She was a member of Trinity United
Methodist Church and was a retired
U. S. Army nurse, having served in the
European Theatre of combat in World
War 11. She lived a long and full life, traveling the world with
her beloved husband of 57 years, Charles Rawls, Sr.
Survivors include her son Charles A. (Donna) Rawls Jr. of
Warner Robins. Grandsons: Sean Rawls of San Francisco,
Calif., and Ryan Rawls of Alpharetta.
RUBYE PEAVY
WARNER ROBINS - Ruby Peavy, 81, went to be with the
Lord Tuesday. Peavy was bom June 26, 1925 in West Point.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Bill Peavy; par
ents, Fletcher and Mary Davis; brothers, Marco Davis and
O’Neal Davis. Survivors include her children, Mary Jo Aho,
Warner Robins; Garry Peavy, St. Simons, Island; a grand
daughter and great grandchild. Services will be held at 2
p.m. in the chapel of McCullough Funeral Home with inter
ment following in Magnolia Park Cemetery.
SHIRLEY MILLS WEBB
MACON - Shirley Mills Webb, 63, passed away Tuesday.
A memorial celebration of her life will take place at 11 a.m.
Saturday in the chapel of McCullough Funeral Home. In
lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations be made to
The American Cancer Society 804 Cherry Street Suite A
Macon, Georgia 31201.
VERLIE MAE HARGROVE
WARNER ROBINS - Verlie Mae Hargrove, 71, passed
away Sunday. Services will be held at 11 a.m. today in the
chapel of McCullough Funeral Home with interment follow
ing in Magnolia Park Cemetery. Go to www.mcculloughfh.
com to sign the Online Registry for the family.
Beluga whale gravely ill
ATLANTA (AP) - One
of the Georgia Aquarium’s
five prized beluga whales is
gravely ill and his immune
system remains weak, aquar
ium officials said.
Gasper, a 17-year-old male
beluga, has been ill for sever
al years and doctors recent
ly diagnosed a potentially
deadly infection. The aquar
ium said Gasper’s immune
system does not appear to
be getting worse, but that he
remains very weak. Officials
had said in October that his
immune system was failing.
The whale is being moni
tored around the clock and
aquarium staff are working
to make sure the whale has
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STATE OF GEORGIA
CITY OF WARNER ROBINS
Pursuant to Official Code of Georgia Annotated
§36-35-4, notice is hereby given that the Mayor and
Council of the City of Warner Robins, at their regular
meeting to be held on Tuesday, January 16, 2007, will
consider adoption of an ordinance to increase the annual
salary for the office of mayor of the City of Warner Robins
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the medications, fluids and
nutrition he needs, said Dave
Santucci, the aquarium’s
spokesman. Before being
brought to Atlanta, Gasper
and his tank mate Nico had
been housed in substandard
conditions at an amusement
park in Mexico City. There,
the whales’ tank was located
beneath a roller coaster.
Gasper was in poor health
with numerous skin lesions
when the new owners of the
amusement park agreed to
move the whales to Atlanta.
Aquarium veterinarians
later discovered Gasper had
the potentially deadly bone
disease osteomyelitis, and he
was taken off exhibit.
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