Posted on 05/19/2006 5:37:23 AM PDT by petkus
MARIETTA - Gov. Sonny Perdue on Thursday parted ways with the White House over President Bush's plans to establish a temporary worker program that could lead to eventual citizenship for millions of undocumented aliens working in the United States.
The governor addressed a packed crowd of lawyers during the Cobb Bar Association's monthly luncheon.
Perdue, who is seeking election to a second term, echoed the stance of Georgia's U.S. Sens. Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson from earlier this week in saying a guest-worker program that offers legal status to immigrants should be shelved until U.S. borders are firmly secured from rampant illegal entries into the country.
"Immigration policy means nothing if the borders are porous," Perdue said, fielding questions about federal and state immigration laws.
Perdue's address at the Marietta Country Club was billed as an official visit by his Capitol office. But Perdue sounded familiar campaign themes throughout much of his speech.
"You have my commitment as long as the people entrust me to govern this state, you've got my sacred honor I'll do my best to make you proud," Perdue said.
Perdue followed up his visit with the Cobb Bar Association with a tour of WellStar Kennestone Hospital in Marietta that WellStar Chief Executive Officer Dr. Robert Lipson led.
The governor has visited Cobb three times since the start of the month when Perdue stumped at the Square in Marietta on May 1 to kick off his statewide re-election bid.
Heavily Republican Cobb County, campaign staffers have said, will figure prominently in Perdue's re-election strategy. Cobb voters made up 10 percent of Perdue's total support when he won his first term in 2002.
At Thursday's Bar Association address, Perdue boasted about education measures passed during the recently ended General Assembly.
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i live in cobb county and we happen to be one of the most, if not the most, conservative counties in the state of georgia, and intend on remaining so.......perdue is the first republican governor since, er.....reconstruction (so much for the two-party system)...but he knows on which side his biscuit is buttered.......:-)
"You can't clean up the water until you get the hog out of the spring" Johnny Isakson
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