Thats why he introduced this bill, which reads in pertinent part:
(b) Any individual may request to the Secretary of State in writing for his or her name to be placed on the registry and in so doing shall acknowledge that he or she desires that no public building, site, structure, road, highway, street, intersection, interchange, bridge, or other public property be named for him or her.
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(Jen B. on
Apr 22, 2008 1:22 PM)
This is most unfortunate!
The State was to name the 75/285 interchange after myself, but I vehemently opposed such an idea because I did not want to be associated with such gridlock.
I hope the legislature passes this fine piece of legislation next year.
(griftdrift on
Apr 22, 2008 1:30 PM)
He orignially wanted to pass a bill that would not allow the naming of anything after a living person. This compromise was the best he could “almost” get through.
And frankly I support it. No real impact? Drive any road in Georgia, interstate, state highway or country road, for any significant amount of time and count the number of signs saying “such and such memorial highway”. Signs cost money. Money that could be better spent elsewhere or in my opinion returned to the people via spending cuts and tax reform.
It’s a small thing. But small things sometimes add up to real money.
(innerredneckexposed on
Apr 22, 2008 1:58 PM)
Another problem is that the state does not reflect the name changes on their maps. I was driving through a certain house district looking for Suchandsuch Street only to realize it had been changed to John Smith Ave. And this happened every single time the streets had their signs changed, it wasn’t reflected in state maps.
Good for Robert Brown. Seems a little ass to go to the DuBose Porter Civic Center for a dinner where DuBose Porter will be no?
(Jules on
Apr 22, 2008 2:31 PM)
I think they should wait till you’ve been dead like 25 years, so folks know who is someone deserving of honor, now it’s completly random. Them maybe it’s worth putting up the sign.
(Mouth of the South on
Apr 22, 2008 4:55 PM)
Save money? This will cost money. You will need to keep the list, which will require at least oine person to field the requests to be on the lists and also create the certifications the DOT or whomever would need to proceed with naming something.
Creation of a bunch of forms would be next.
Ascertaining people’s identify might not be cheap, and figuring out if the Bobby Jones that doesn’t want anything named after him is the same one they want to name it after is also the problem. Can nothing be named Bobby Jones if one of the Bobby Joneses doesn’t want it?
This is a solution looking for a problem and the exact kind of bill we should complain about the other side trying to get passed. Not us.
Truthfully, I think the Democrats down at the Capitol have done a fine job this year by and large. they have held together on some difficult bills and made some others that were sure to pass easier to take. The horrible stuff that passed probably could not have been stopped.
(innerredneckexposed on
Apr 22, 2008 5:28 PM)
dude, MOTS, you have the list, the individuals sign up at the SOS, maybe 15 people all legislators are there with a notary public who creates a database all agencies can access but most importantly legislators (the people who name places) get this list which is verified through the clerk of the house when laws are introduced to rename things, and really, I don’t think that too many people will be remembered after they die.
We are really breaking the bank there.
I think its good we have humble legislators or at least ones who don’t want stupid places to be named after them and want to end this shit.
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