Logsdon will be beholden to developers

Tue, 11/29/2005 - 6:21pm
By: Letters to the ...

I told myself that if Bill King or Dan Tennant wrote another nasty letter in the newspaper that I would be compelled to write; they did and here it goes. It’s pretty obvious that Harold Logsdon has a hidden agenda. He’s a two-issue candidate. When you look at who is backing him, including Rick Schlosser, Bob Lenox and Rex Green (Direct PAC crowd), the two issues are easy to pick: large annexations and covering for the past sins of the Development Authority.

Harold’s developer backers are licking their chops waiting to dive into the 900-acre site south of Tyrone. Here we go again with Bob Lenox-style policies on building thousands of homes and lining up classroom trailers behind our schools. We will see major shifts in school redistricting because of the additional students. Personally, I thought the last four years of slow residential growth have been wonderful.

One thing you have to say about Mayor Brown regarding the Development Authority: he was right. For almost two years, the man stood on his own defending us from government corruption while the Direct PAC and the old mayors kept telling us nothing was wrong. Well, it turned out there was a lot wrong, and now Harold is going to pay them off for all their help. To think that our recreation budget would have to be cut to pay a bunch of crooked loans infuriates me.

Harold’s advisors have told him to just keep his mouth shut and ride out the runoff. The reason is simple: Harold has nothing to say.

He’s trying to convince everyone that because he was a mid-level auditor with BellSouth that he has some special tricks on how to handle the budget. Working three decades for an overstuffed, bureaucracy-laden monopoly like Ma Bell is nothing to brag about. It’s funny that he hid his employment experience in Peachtree City with NCR.

The only government officials that my elementary school-age children can identify are President Bush and Mayor Brown. The reason they know Mayor Brown is that he comes to Oak Grove and spends time with the students. It is evident he cares about the local residents and he spends a lot of time meeting the needs of the city. Please vote for Mayor Brown on Dec. 6.

Roberta Hall
Peachtree City, Ga.

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Submitted by mudcat on Fri, 12/02/2005 - 10:10am.

Wow, Roberta. You must be new here or frightfully uninvolved. Go to a council meeting or two and watch our council at work and how the mayor operates. Its very interesting. Yes he is good with kids because he is one. Marginal education, no job and he views everything with a child-like wonder because he is seeing it for the first time. That's what happens with someone who has no life or business experience.

meow


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Submitted by birdman on Wed, 11/30/2005 - 12:21am.

With all due respect you don't have a very good grasp on Brown. HE is the one pushing big annexation. He does it behind close doors cultivating his own relationship with John Wieland Homes. He doesn't do it in public. He doesn't use his city experts. He doesn't include OUR elected representatives. If he was so much in favor of responsible annexation, why did he do it secretly, during an annexation moratorium? You have bought into all the fear-mongering that Brown is so good at. You need to attend council meetings and learn for yourself. Do you really trust a former part time dental office manager to negotiate your annexations, develop your budgets, handle your city business? Or would you rather trust the highly competant and highly paid City Manager and his staff? A real leader uses his resources. As delusional leader does it all by himself. Brown is a delusional leader.


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Submitted by PTC Guy on Fri, 12/02/2005 - 11:20am.

Logsdon has been nothing but secretive.

Except for wanting to assume the Tennis Center debt what WILL he do on Cart Paths, Stormwater, Annexation and so on?

You don't know but you know he will do good whatever.

Even when he denies things have been done that have been done?

Hmmm. Anyone but Brown voting.


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Submitted by ManofGreatLogic on Sat, 12/10/2005 - 12:22am.

I hope, with Logsdon's win, that development goes out of control.

YOU deserve it.

And then we'll say: "Nah, nah, nah....we told you so."

I talked to new city counsel members and Logsdon.

That West village WILL go through.

Congratulations.


Submitted by McDonoughDawg on Sat, 12/10/2005 - 5:41am.

It will be developed, I think we all know that. The issue is, who will be in control of the area? If you want Fayette Co in control, we may get something that looks like 54 East, just outside of our City Limits. That is NOT my idea of quality growth.

The problem we have now with traffic, is directly related to all the business's allowed to open BEFORE 54 West was finished. This could have easily been eliminated. Although I will say, it's not nearly as bad traffic wise as other areas of Atlanta.

Submitted by Sailon on Sat, 12/10/2005 - 11:47am.

I just keep finding things on this web site in places hidden that I haven't seen before. Looks like at least some kind of better organization could be found. Cutting out the Free Speech printed word was a bad mistake, it just needed proper editing (organization, not cutting words).

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