But I've thought all along that Go Fish would likely end up making more money for the state than it costs, in the form of increased sales taxes. You spend $19 million in state money to build fishing facilities, you get who-knows-how-much back (scroll to the bottom) when more bass tournaments come to Georgia.
This is from the governor's office today:
ATLANTA — Governor Sonny Perdue joined FLW Outdoors Chairman Irwin Jacobs and other state and local officials this afternoon to announce Lake Lanier and Atlanta as the site of the 2010 Forrest Wood Cup presented by BP and Castrol. This championship fishing tournament, which is scheduled for August 5 – 8, 2010, will draw the top bass anglers in the country as they compete for a $2.5 million purse. The tournament will be staged out of the Go Fish Georgia mega-ramp currently under construction at Laurel Park on Lake Lanier.Now, if you want to talk about the appropriateness of building the state's "Go Fish" headquarters and hatchery in the middle of a county known a hell of a lot better for being Sonny Perdue's home than it is for fishing, go right ahead.
UPDATE: Johnny Fly-too-close-to-the-Sun disagrees.
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Vic, I believe if you go back and look at it, my criticisms of Mr. Shipp are limited to him writing about things he doesn't witness, not sourcing his work and getting the occasional fact wrong.
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I don't think I ever called him a bad name.
There are plenty of differences between Illinois' governor and Perdue's land deals, but that doesn't mean Oaky Woods, etc., isn't a legit story. It is.
And it got told and Perdue comfortably won re-election.
I never called him a jerk that I know of. If I did during some conversation that you and I had, then I apologize, because that's not what I think about Mr. Shipp.
Victor, I find it highly amusing that in an attempt to defend someone from insult you result to the very behavior you criticize.
Merry Christmas.
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