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.