Post by Logan on Jan 10, 2017 6:57:15 GMT -6
Nearly 10 years ago, then-Gov. Sonny Perdue stepped to a podium outside the state Capitol and led a solemn crowd of a few hundred people in prayer. Demonstrators chanted in protest as he spoke, while a handful of pastors lined up beside him with eyes cast upward toward the heavens.
“We’ve come together here simply for one reason and one reason only: To very reverently and respectfully pray up a storm,” Perdue said after a choir provided a hymn.
That hour-long prayer vigil is back in the spotlight as Perdue is one of the finalists to be Donald Trump’s agriculture chief. And one national media outlet after another has mentioned Perdue’s state-sanctioned plea to a higher power for a downpour.
At the time, Georgia was at the center of a disastrous drought spreading like an inkblot across the South. And Perdue, then in his second term as governor, had ordered water restrictions, launched a legal battle to block the release of Lake Lanier’s waters and appealed to President George W. Bush for help.
Read more: politics.blog.ajc.com/2017/01/10/that-time-sonny-perdue-prayed-for-rain/
“We’ve come together here simply for one reason and one reason only: To very reverently and respectfully pray up a storm,” Perdue said after a choir provided a hymn.
That hour-long prayer vigil is back in the spotlight as Perdue is one of the finalists to be Donald Trump’s agriculture chief. And one national media outlet after another has mentioned Perdue’s state-sanctioned plea to a higher power for a downpour.
At the time, Georgia was at the center of a disastrous drought spreading like an inkblot across the South. And Perdue, then in his second term as governor, had ordered water restrictions, launched a legal battle to block the release of Lake Lanier’s waters and appealed to President George W. Bush for help.
Read more: politics.blog.ajc.com/2017/01/10/that-time-sonny-perdue-prayed-for-rain/