Georgia’s Girl Scouts may be earning a new badge for persistence.
Standing beside a bipartisan group of legislators, a small group of scouts returned to the state Capitol on Monday to once again ask lawmakers to get their founder’s name affixed to a Savannah bridge that currently honors a white segregationist. They had also brought with them about 10,000 petitions that had been signed in favor of their cause.
Despite the presence of hundreds of scouts in the Capitol last month, efforts to remove former Gov. Eugene Talmadge’s name from the bridge and replace it with that of Savannah native Juliette Gordon Low have stalled. Neither a House nor Senate resolution on the issue has received a floor vote this session, which ends March 29.
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