Political question - Legal or illegal?

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Steve Brown’s campaign finance letter to the editor was slanted. He is making it look like Westmoreland and Seabaugh are doing something illegal, and they are on the up-and-up.

Mitch Seabaugh does work in the housing industry in Coweta County, so what. I don’t know anything about Seabaugh not listing his employer with the state. If that’s a requirement and he failed to do it, file an ethics complaint against him.

As for the TDK developers sending in campaign contributions to Seabaugh and Westmoreland, it’s all legal, so stop complaining and acting like they did something wrong. All of the contributions are a matter of public record which is where Steve Brown got them. When developers, like lawyers and corporations, have specific concerns they want addressed, they fund the candidates that share their interests. The developers needed a road so they could build and Seabaugh and Westmoreland helped secure the project. They did mislead people about the motivations for the road, but if that's illegal, you convict everyone in Congress.

Harold Logsdon did receive a contribution from Seabaugh’s campaign fund. Again, there is nothing illegal about this practice. Someone said that Logsdon should have abstained from voting on issues related to TDK because he received contributions from Doug Mitchell and other developers through Seabaugh’s funds who had a financial interest in the road. Where in the law does it say you have to abstain from voting in such cases?

If everyone is so concerned about future traffic jams from the quality developments coming out of east Coweta, then why were there only 15 people at the city meeting? Of course traffic is going to get worse when you make significant increases to the population. This is happening all over Atlanta, so why should Fayette County and Peachtree City be an excluded island? Logsdon never made a secret out of the fact he supported TDK and a large westside annexation, so why are people getting angry at him now?

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CCB, Impact fees
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Submitted by bad_ptc on Fri, 09/22/2006 - 4:53pm.

Please correct me if I’m wrong.

Why is it developers in Georgia don’t have to pay impact fees?

Just about everywhere I’ve lived developers had to pay impact fees for schools, roads and basic infrastructure improvements for every house they built.


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Developers paying impact fees
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Submitted by CCB on Fri, 09/22/2006 - 5:12pm.

Bad_ptc,
A city has to chose to issue impact fees. Peachtree City has impact fees. Most cities in the Atlanta MSA charge some kind of fee.


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Thanks
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Submitted by bad_ptc on Fri, 09/22/2006 - 5:41pm.

Smiling


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The better question is ethical or unethical
Submitted by swmbo on Thu, 09/21/2006 - 8:49pm.

CCB,

not everything that is unethical is also illegal. That is something politicians count on when they engage in backroom deals and trickery -- MOST of which are immoral, many of which are unethical (like the TDK deal), few of which are actually illegal and NONE of which are capable of proof.

All I can say is that those who were tricked into thinking that Seabaugh is a friend of the working man because of his immigration legislation should take a closer look at the company he keeps. His developer friends have EVERY incentive to keep hiring undocumented workers so they can pocket more money to secure his political patronage. You don't realize it yet but, if you actually read his bill, you'd realize that they stuck it to you, the taxpayers.

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Developer double standard
Submitted by Jones on Thu, 09/21/2006 - 2:22pm.

The hypocrisy is so thick in your blog, I can cut it with a knife. What about moral duty? Westmoreland, Seabaugh and Logsdon should have disclosed their contributions from the development crowd in public meetings and to the press. Even CCB admits Seabaugh lied about why the road was needed.

It’s laughable how CCB and Mayor Logsdon say we can’t build a wall around Peachtree City, and why should we be any different than the rest of metro Atlanta? Most of us were sold on Peachtree City because it was different. PCDC told us it was a quality of life island, or at least they did until their land ran out. The “rock falling on your head is inevitable” argument is stupid.

How amazing that four years of Rapson, Weed and Brown never produced a single discussion of throwing our sewer into Coweta, no 2,000 homes projected on the city’s westside, no trains parked in the middle of town, no massive developments on our border and no future assurances of constant traffic jams. It was only when Mayor Logsdon was elected that “growth is inevitable” and we can’t protect our city [referred to as “building walls” by the pro-growth people].

The residents of Peachtree City are not a bunch of idiots. We can see that elected officials are choosing to alter our quality of life. If they can't show more concern for the citizens than they do for the developers, we need to run the elected officials out of office.

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Hey Jonesie!
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Submitted by John Munford on Thu, 09/21/2006 - 2:41pm.

The Citizen PUBLISHED Logsdon's campaign contributions and also Westmoreland's. If you didn't pay attention, don't blame the rest of us.

The true blame lies in Coweta where the commissioners apparently will do anything to "pack 'em in" despite their former minimum lot size of 1.6 acres. While PTC is a wonderful place, you've got to realize the same planning stops at the city limits and doesn't extend into Coweta ... or Senoia ... or Tyrone. You get the idea.


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Munford: not understandable
Submitted by Hardtack on Thu, 09/21/2006 - 4:08pm.

Man, the road we can stop is the problem, not the development in Coweta. These people in Fayette County who want the road pretty much want it for the same reason you do: more people close by means more houses to build and more ads to sell. Don't join that bunch of thieves who have been planning this for years! This is a "planned community", or was, and we don't want the road. Besides, going to a meeting with the current administration is a waste of time.

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The real reason we'll get clobbered
Submitted by Doug on Thu, 09/21/2006 - 5:07pm.

You can blame the disasterous Logsdon Era on voter apathy and outright lies. A lot of people knew better, but they didn't bother to vote. On the other hand, some of the people went to the polls totally snookered by Logsdon's lies. Mayor Logsdon is as bad as Linda Schrenko and her dirty deeds. The only difference is Logsdon has a better tan.

Those loud Logsdon supporters have gone into hiding. Who can blame them?

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Thanks John
Submitted by FayetteFirst on Thu, 09/21/2006 - 3:47pm.

The same people who do not read do not vote.
If they do vote they do not know the issues.
That's how westmoreland cbald and logg got in.

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