Billboard clear-cut legislation advances again

[The Straight Story]

Billboard clear-cut legislation advances again

Legislation that would allow billboard companies to clear-cut state-owned trees in front of their signs passed unanimously Thursday in the Senate Transportation Committee. A vote on the Senate floor is expected next week.

The same measure has already passed the House.

Billboard owners say trees obscure their signs, impairing a legal business and endangering jobs. Environmentalists say the trees are a state asset that help the environment, and that they already compromised with the billboard owners long ago.

Billboard owners currently can cut down smaller trees but not the largest ones.

http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-politics-elections/billboard-clear-cut-legislation-860039.html

[liberal N proud]

1. Just cut them all down, clear cut the whole fucking planet

When the trees are all gone and the wind blows we can all eat dirt.

When the oxygen is all gone, we can all die.


:rant:

[AnOhioan]

2. If only we could get a bill passed that allowed for the.....

clear-cutting of billboards themselves.

[damntexdem]

3. The damn billboards obscure my view of the trees.

Clear cut the billboards!