[0]Give our Georgia Friends a Drink DayChattanooga's Mayor weighed in again today on the water issue, proclaiming Wednesday as "Give Our Georgia Friends A Drink Day."
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The city solicited donations of bottled water today to send to Georgia. About two-thousand bottles of Tennessee "spring water" will be distributed tomorrow to lawmakers in the Peach State. An aide to the Mayor plans to dress in a Davy Crockett style coonskin hat and other apparel.
[0]Mayor Ron LittlefieldMayor Ron Littlefield calls the move a jab, but no more ridiculous than Georgia's attempts to move its' border North. "You'll always have people that see the negative side of it but I've talked with a lot of friends in Georgia, and in the legislature and they think its funny, and its intended to be light spirited and make fun of an issue we think is going nowhere," says Littlefield.
He believes Georgia would be better advised to conserve the resources they have, rather than an "ill conceived land and water grab."
[0]Along with the water, a copy of the following tongue and cheek proclamation will be delivered to Georgia lawmakers:
PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, it has come to pass that the heavens are shut up and a drought of Biblical proportions has been visited upon the Southern United States, and WHEREAS, the parched and dry conditions have weighed heavily upon the State of Georgia and sorely afflicted those who inhabit the Great City of Atlanta, and WHEREAS, the leaders of Georgia have assembled like the Children of Israel in the desert, grumbled among themselves and have begun to cast longing eyes toward the north, coveting their neighbor’s assets, and WHEREAS, the lack of water has led some misguided souls to seek more potent refreshment or for other reasons has resulted in irrational and outrageous actions seeking to move a long established and peaceful boundary, and WHEREAS, it is deemed better to light a candle than curse the darkness, and better to offer a cool, wet kiss of friendship rather than face a hot and angry legislator gone mad from thirst, and Whereas, it is feared that if today they come for our river, tomorrow they might come for our Jack Daniels or George Dickel, NOW THEREFORE, In the interest of brotherly love, peace, friendship, mutual prosperity, citywide self promotion, political grandstanding and all that I Ron Littlefield, Mayor of the City of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Do hereby Proclaim that Wednesday, February 27, 2008 shall be known as “Give Our Georgia Friends a Drink Day”
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