Cagle's Senate Budget Task Force

Lt. Governor Casey Cagle has announced the members of his task force to make recommendations regarding the state's budget crisis.

According to the AJC  "The members of the seven-member task force are: Max Blocker, of PricewaterhouseCoopers; Monye Connolly, president of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Geogia; Greg Duncan president of North American Operations at UCB, Inc.; Edward Heys of Deloitte & Touche; Ronnie Labrato of Georgia Power; Kelly McCutchen of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation; and Suzanne Sitherwood of Atlanta Gas Light."

Pretty much a "Who's Who" of business. The Georgia Public Policy Foundation is an alleged non-partisan, "pro-market" think tank that are proponents of privatization of public services and tend to lean against environmental regulation. The others are from Georgia's largest businesses.  

This group looks quite similar in make-up to Sonny Perdue's task force leaders to solve the ongoing Chattahoochee River Basin water wars: John Brock, chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola Enterprises, and Tim Lowe, president of Lowe Engineers, are co-chairmen of the Governor’s Water Contingency Task Force. In an article by Jay Bookman in the AJC the 87 member water task force has just one environmental group represented.

The budget task force will make recommendations before the end of the session,

Stay tuned to see what policy changes will be recommended to benefit the big businesses of Georgia and some folks running for office this election year.