red states rule
04-01-2010, 06:15 PM
Great call Georgia!!
Now the bleeding heart libs will have a fit
Senate to drivers – Speak English
3:15 pm March 30, 2010, by Ernie Suggs
According to state Sen. Jack Murphy, there are 13 languages in which someone can sit and test for their Georgia driver’s license.
For him, that is about a dozen too many. So on Tuesday, the Cumming republican revised and got approved a bill that would make English the official and only language someone can use to get their license.
Murphy, who chairs the public safety committee, said it was naturally a safety issue. Drivers who can’t read road signs pose a danger to everyone, he said.
But critics of the bill, point to the fact that illiterate Georgians are still allowed to drive and are helped with the test. But their overriding concern is that the bill is anti-immigration and stunts economic development in the state.
They even have a name for it.
The “Kia Go Home” bill, named after the South Korean automaker which builds cars here in Georgia with a sizable Korean workforce.
“This bill would tell Kia that it is okay to invest a billion dollars here in Georgia, but your employees cannot drive here,” said Jerry Gonzalez, executive director for the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials. “This is sending the wrong message and would make Georgia the only state in the country with a law like this. It is anti-immigration, anti-Latino and anti-economy development.”
SB 67 was actually a bill from the last legislative session that many thought was long dead. It passed the Senate and the House last year but lawmakers failed to agree on language before the session ended.
http://blogs.ajc.com/gold-dome-live/2010/03/30/senate-to-drivers-speak-english/?cxntfid=blogs_gold_dome_live
Now the bleeding heart libs will have a fit
Senate to drivers – Speak English
3:15 pm March 30, 2010, by Ernie Suggs
According to state Sen. Jack Murphy, there are 13 languages in which someone can sit and test for their Georgia driver’s license.
For him, that is about a dozen too many. So on Tuesday, the Cumming republican revised and got approved a bill that would make English the official and only language someone can use to get their license.
Murphy, who chairs the public safety committee, said it was naturally a safety issue. Drivers who can’t read road signs pose a danger to everyone, he said.
But critics of the bill, point to the fact that illiterate Georgians are still allowed to drive and are helped with the test. But their overriding concern is that the bill is anti-immigration and stunts economic development in the state.
They even have a name for it.
The “Kia Go Home” bill, named after the South Korean automaker which builds cars here in Georgia with a sizable Korean workforce.
“This bill would tell Kia that it is okay to invest a billion dollars here in Georgia, but your employees cannot drive here,” said Jerry Gonzalez, executive director for the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials. “This is sending the wrong message and would make Georgia the only state in the country with a law like this. It is anti-immigration, anti-Latino and anti-economy development.”
SB 67 was actually a bill from the last legislative session that many thought was long dead. It passed the Senate and the House last year but lawmakers failed to agree on language before the session ended.
http://blogs.ajc.com/gold-dome-live/2010/03/30/senate-to-drivers-speak-english/?cxntfid=blogs_gold_dome_live