March 24, 2006

In Brief

HOPE AMENDMENT: Georgia lawmakers defeated a proposed Constitutional amendment, offered by Gov. Sonny Perdue, a Republican, that would have prevented revenue from the state lottery from being used for anything other than pre-kindergarten programs and the popular HOPE Scholarship program. Democrats favored an alternate bill that would have required a two-thirds vote in the General Assembly and a vote by the public before changes could be made in the merit-based scholarship, a model for

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