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Letter: Dirty Politics Amid Water Projects
Joe Cook, executive director & riverkeeper for the Coosa River Basin Initiative, contends that cronyism has guided state funds aimed at water projects.
Last month, the Georgia Water Coalition released its “Dirty Dozen” report highlighting the “most egregious offenses” to Georgia’s water resources. Gov. Nathan Deal’s administration, which was the target of much of the report, responded by calling the 185-member coalition of environmental, hunting and fishing, business, landowner and faith-based groups a “liberal interest group.” Label the messengers “liberal,” so the thinking goes in some quarters of this state, and the message will be ignored. But a careful look at the Water Coalition’s “Dirty Dozen” shows that the message is about dirty politics as much as dirty water. Within the report, the so-called “liberal interest group” highlights $213 million in government spending that should …
