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Sat 16 Sep 2006 6:48
by Kevin McGehee
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[Yippee-Ki-Yay!]
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Anybody that thinks the current Georgia license plates are better looking than the proposed ones pictured here is blind as a bat.
Never mind.
After a single day of withering public reaction to a new, blue license plate for 5 million Georgia cars, Gov. Sonny Perdue on Friday downgraded the tag to a mere trial balloon.
“It’s not final,“ said his press secretary, Heather Hedrick. “What the governor would like to see is some competition. He’s suggesting…. that we put a variety of designs online, and we let the people vote.“
Look for some alternative designs “within a few weeks,“ Hedrick said.
Hedrick wouldn’t say that the governor — who had signed off on the tag’s unveiling Thursday — had changed his mind. “He saw it, he likes it fine,“ she said.
So what caused the governor to decide he needed more input?
Partly it was “feedback within the office,“ Hedrick replied. But mostly, the press secretary said, it was the storm of comments on an ajc.com blog featuring the new tag.
“Butt ugly” was one of the kinder descriptions offered in more than 400 comments that had been logged as of 5 p.m. Friday. “It has no personality,“ said Dyanne Scherb, 47, of Savannah, one of the bloggers, contacted by phone.» AJC: Perdue suggests vote on license tag design
Jeez, Sonny. A bunch of self-selected AJC-readers get riled up—as tilted a sample as you’re ever going to see—and you sound retreat? This is leadership?
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