Sonny Perdue is Tonight’s Designated Survivor
Former Georgia Governor and current Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue is serving as tonight’s designated survivor during President Trump’s first State of the Union address.
For those who aren’t aware of how fake President Kiefer Sutherland Tom Kirkman took office, one member of the president’s Cabinet sits out the speech in a safe, undisclosed location in the event of a disaster at the U.S. Capitol. This practice has its roots in the Cold War, stemming from the Presidential Succession Act of 1947.
If you’re wondering how Secretary Perdue’s night will play out, he will be called “Mr. President,” if only for a few hours in a location tucked away from the world. The running joke on Twitter is that if the government fails, we’ll still have chicken. He’s not one of those Purdues, and Georgians know good and well he’d prefer to have us all go fish.
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Holly Croft
Holly is an archivist at one of Georgia's institutions of higher learning. In a past life, she was a legislative assistant on Capitol Hill. She cares a lot about records management, open records laws, and privacy laws. Political persuasion? It's complicated. What's not complicated is that she's proudly equal parts Bulldog and Tar Heel.
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That’s got to be a nice line in the curriculum vitae.
Leads one to wonder what a Sonny Perdue presidency would look like.
I see the re-election campaign slogan: VOTE MOR PHISH
Oh, it’s not that hard, just imagine one of the most do-nothing presidencies one can ever imagine.
He would make Millard Fillmore look like TR.
It might have been Tom Price sitting there hoping.