ATLANTA — House Speaker David Ralston didn’t attempt to hide the reason why he gaveled the first day of Georgia’s legislative session into order on Jan. 10 in such a haste.
Normally a day of buttoned-down formalities and political speechifying, the die-hard Georgia football fan started the day of the national championship game with a highlight reel of Bulldog superstar players — and then joined a chorus of politicians who barked “Go Dawgs.”
“The Georgia Bulldogs tonight will set everything right with the world,” he said before hopping on a flight to Indianapolis, where a squadron of other Georgia politicians had already decamped to watch the evening’s showdown with Alabama.
