According to Tyler, Peach Pundit’s newest front page author, the former 216 Policy Group is officially reforming this session.
Under the former Speaker, this group was marginalized and heavily punished, thus they disbanded in 2008 under the purported theory that they would be harder to target individually than as a group.
I came around to Georgia politics after 216 had disbanded, but everything I have seen and heard about them tells me that, for the most part, it was a very good group that aligns fairly closely with my own beliefs – not as close as the LP, but certainly much closer than the majority of Republican leadership. That said, it DOES have some crazies among its members, including Bobby Franklin among them.
I said once it became clear that there would be a new Speaker that the new Speaker probably shouldn’t rock the boat too much, as he would face re-election in just under a year, as opposed to the 2 year window that Speakers generally have. Apparently, David Ralston, the new Speaker, plays a bit more aggressively than I – which is arguably a good thing to have in one of the three most powerful positions in State politics.
Why do I say that he has played (relatively) aggressively and that 216 is gaining power?
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