"What a maroon!" -Bugs Bunny

Georgia's governor will pursue a lawsuit against the new federal health
care bill, even if the state's attorney general refuses to do so, the
governor's spokesman said Thursday.

Gov. Sonny Perdue, a Republican, opposes the health care bill because it
will add 700,000 Georgians to the Medicaid program and require people to
buy health insurance or face a penalty, said Bert Brantley, Perdue's
director of communications.

The state's attorney general, Thurbert Baker, a Democrat, had advised
Perdue against filing a lawsuit.

"The governor of this state asked me to give my legal opinion to see if
there were any legal legs to overturn this health care bill," Baker told
CNN on Thursday. "After looking at all the arguments raised around the
country and going through analysis, I found that there is simply no legal
basis to file a lawsuit."

According to Baker, pursuing a lawsuit would be "a waste of our tax
dollars."

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/25/georgia-governor-threatens-health-
care-lawsuit

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