The deal on Deal #3

Mike Luckovich's Sunday cartoon in the AJC addresses the perception that Gov. Nathan Deal -- or at least his people -- are behind the ludicrous shenanigans of the state's (un)ethics commission.

The images below are a little fuzzy, so let me clarify.   The dog's collar ID says "State Ethics Comm."   The dog sniffs Gov. Deal.   In the next picture the ventriloquist governor speaks through the now-exposed puppet-dog, saying,  "He's clean."

Yes, they found the governor essentially "clean" in the charges of misuse of campaign funds.  And yes there are highly suspicious deals involving forced resignations, replacement with hand-picked people, and now a seeming whitewash of charges stemming from the AJC's investigative journalism.


















I am admittedly predisposed to think Deal guilty of, at the least, manipulating the system to his great benefit, which is exactly what Luckovich's cartoon says.   I'm suspicious because of his past shady ways of managing his finances.  It's unlikely that it can be proved he did anything illegal, given that experienced policitians like Deal usually manage to get these shady deals done indirectly so as to maintain plausible deniability.

I will certainly be opposing his re-election in 2014.

Ralph