Donald Trump Taps Former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue as Secretary of Agriculture

[Judi Lynn]

Source: NBC News

JAN 18 2017, 8:46 PM ET

by KRISTEN WELKER, HALLIE JACKSON, PHIL MCCAUSLAND and EMMA MARGOLIN


President-elect Donald Trump has chosen former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue to lead the Department of Agriculture, senior transition officials tell NBC News.

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Like Trump in the 2016 election, Perdue won his first gubernatorial bid thanks in large part to angry white voters.

Upset that Georgia's legislature had stripped the state flag of its large Confederate battle cross in 2001, rural whites the next year overwhelmingly flocked to Perdue, who had promised a referendum on bringing the emblem back. Georgia voters in 2004 ended up choosing a design resembling the national "Stars and Bars" flag of the Confederacy over the more infamous battle cross.'

Perdue is perhaps best known as the Georgia governor who prayed for rain on the steps of the state Capitol during a drought. The event drew a crowd and national headlines.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/donald-trump-taps-georgia-gov-sonny-perdue-secretary-agriculture-n708651

[Solly Mack]

1. smh

[CurtEastPoint]

2. One more giant embarrassment from my state. SMDH.

That old fart needs to return to being a veterinarian.

[cstanleytech]

3. I am trapped here along with you *sigh*

About my only hope to get out of here would be a miracle of hitting the lottery, needless to say I'm not counting on that happening.

[underpants]

5. Is he the one who held a prayer session for rain?

???

[TexasBushwhacker]

4. It actually would have made sense to appoint Rick Perry

He grew up on a cotton farm and majored in animal science.

[dembotoz]

6. But then he might remember which Dept he worked for

[TexasBushwhacker]

9. At least he wouldn't be the head of a department

he wanted to get rid of.

[tenorly]

7. Perdue, of course, means 'lost' in French.

Very à propos for someone in the incoming administration.

[DallasNE]

8. Big Tobacco Should Love This n/t