By Ariel Hart
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia Politics
March 31, 2010
On Feb. 11, Gov. Sonny Perdue, House Speaker David Ralston and Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle stood side by side in the governor's office, united behind referendums for a regional transportation tax. After three years of battle over the idea, it looked as if a deal on new transportation funding in Georgia was all but inevitable.
Well, things change.
Seven weeks later, the bill they introduced (HB 1218) is technically dead. The ideas in it are still alive and apparently will be transferred, Frankenstein-like, to dormant bills (HB 277 and HR 206) that stalled last year and can act as a vehicle. But House leaders declined to risk a floor vote on transportation funding by the March 26 deadline for a bill to pass at least one chamber. And as the land lays now, the one thing Perdue says must not be in the bill -- a local ability to opt out of a region and its tax -- is the one thing some influential stakeholders still say must be in the bill.
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