Carl Rogers, 26th District, Georgia House

The Gainesville Times quoted incumbent Carl Rogers in a recent article as if the great man was an expert on a meeting he didn't attend. I bet the attendees were baffled by the use of Carl Rogers as an expert. The meeting was only about money and the budget. Nothing important to Hall County during the local recession.

In my humble opinion, the expertise Carl Rogers has displayed is as a self serving incumbent for 12 years.

Is the man qualified to discuss a meeting he didn't attend? No, especially budgets. Carl is very good at second guessing distant events and at attending meetings where he has no business. Do you remember him voting on environmental issues when he should have been attending an insurance commission meeting?

That would be the time he tried to vote ... and did vote ... for SB 510 ... without a legal reason to cast a ballot? Do you remember, Mr. Rogers?
Carl was scheduled to attend the March 16th, 2006 meeting of the Insurance committee at 3 p.m.. However, he went to the wrong meeting? He went to a meeting for Environmental Quality. How well prepared was he for the discussion on the environment on the day he should have attended the Insurance committee meeting? Did he have any notes on SB510 before voting for it?

Didn't he notice anything unusual about the meeting? Tom McCall has a very distinctive voice and accent. Has he ever chaired an Insurance committee meeting when Carl did attend?

Don't tell me Carl doesn't know Tom McCall. Our happy little incumbent has donated money to him. Tom McCall has donated money to Carl.

Maybe Carl meant to attend the Appropriations committee meeting and thought, gee, we always talk about the environment and money at the same time. Did the environmental discussion sound like money to you, Carl Rogers?

Maybe we should ask a very good friend of Carl's, a Mr. Hulsey, who operates a sludge farm in White County, the only sludge farm in the state protected by HB54. But, that's an entirely different issue than voting in the wrong room, on the wrong issue, for the wrong reason.

But, did Carl's lifelong friendship with the owner of Hulsey Environmental move you to a little, itsy, bitsy, teeny, weeney, mistake that looks like a strong conflict of interest?

Dirty politics and voter turnoff, brought to you by the party of incumbents hidden under the tent.

Read the stories:

The illegal vote on SB 510

The special state law for his friend

The state budget meeting Rogers just couldn't make