As a state senator, Preston W. Smith found plenty of targets: the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, the State Bar of Georgia and the Senate’s Republican leadership among them.
In all those cases, the crux of the disagreement was the same thing-money. Smith protested how much money was being spent on indigent defense, he bristled at State Bar advertisements that protested the Legislature’s cuts to the judiciary’s budget, and he railed against the Senate GOP leadership for not consistently opposing tax increases.
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