Georgia's No. 2 Republican is launching a fresh push for a transportation funding deal. Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle says he is hopeful that after last year's plan fell just short of passage that an agreement can be reached in the 2009 legislative session. Cagle says he remains supportive of a plan allowing local communities to band together to levy a one-cent sales tax for transportation projects. Gov. Sonny Perdue is working on his own transportation plan and has said he doesn't like the sales tax plan. Cagle says Georgia needs 4,000 new lanes at a cost of $50 billion.
