Green Options » Give Our Georgia Friends a Drink Day http://greenoptions.com/tag/give-our-georgia-friends-a-drink-day Posts tagged 'Give Our Georgia Friends a Drink Day' Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:22:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en “Give Our Georgia Friends a Drink Day” http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/02/27/give-our-georgia-friends-a-drink-day/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/02/27/give-our-georgia-friends-a-drink-day/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:22:38 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/02/27/give-our-georgia-friends-a-drink-day/ An image from Angelo Bronzini’s fresco depicting Moses striking water from the rocks.Tennessee officials have fired back a salvo at the state of Georgia, which recently passed resolutions aimed at “correcting” an 1818 survey and moving its border north to gain access to water from the Tennessee River.

Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield’s response was to proclaim today, Wednesday, Feb. 27, “Give Our Georgia Friends a Drink Day” (GOGFADD?). To observe the day, Littlefield is dispatching his aide Matt Lea — in a coonskin cap, no less — to deliver a truckload of bottled water to Atlanta.

The proclamation creating GOGFADD has already itself been widely proclaimed as priceless. Judge for yourself:

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