Fayette County Republicans can do better than accept the chaos and confusion that passed as the Fayette County Republican Convention on March 24, 2007, to continue in the future. Republicans that care about their party’s image should be embarrassed at this charade and not allow it to represent the Fayette County Republican Party.

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I miss BBQ Junction !

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Peachtree City citizens: Please realize that when you burn your leaves and yard waste you are polluting the air for the whole neighborhood. I can’t count how many times I had to close my windows or leave my patio on a nice day because of smoke in the neighborhood. This practice is outlawed in most cities, so why does Peachtree City allow it? With the emphasis on a healthy outdoor lifestyle that the path system promotes, it makes no sense to allow such pollution.

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A special thanks to the vandals this past weekend at Riley Field. Way to guy, tough guys. I hope you feel better after spray-painting the buildings and breaking the water line. All that use the fields are sure appreciative of your handy work. The truly sad part is that I’m not surprised by these events. I’ve got to say after living here for nine years I’ve never seen so much riffraff out and about these days, especially rollin’ on their 22-inch wheels. Here comes Riverdale.

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”Board of Education hires $5,000 a day expert.” Who should know more about Fayette County School System than the county school superintendent and his staff? If they can’t figure out how to redistrict the county, perhaps they all should resign and let’s get a superintendent and staff with the ability to solve minor education challenges. So ONE new school will be added. That doesn’t mean the whole county has to be redistricted by some overpaid “consultant” who knows little or nothing about Fayette County. Sounds like the school board wants a fall guy to take the blame for their own inabilities and shortcomings. How many days will it take at $5,000 a day? And to think that he didn’t even charge for a phone call. Fayette County taxpayers better wake up to this outrageous deal. And then the BOE wants to pay $25,000 for a study to determine the value of excess acreage at Whitewater. More taxpayer money down the drain. Keep the property. [That] will solve this great problem. On second thought, after considering the decisions being made, perhaps half a dozen consultants should be hired immediately.

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Did anyone else notice that the FBOE is paying $5000 a day for a consultant? Wow! The article that emphasized his salary didn’t even specify what exactly he was hired to consult about. I hope he will be worth it.

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I was at the Lake Horton playground Monday with my two small children. All four garbage cans at the picnic pavilion were overflowing with garbage from the weekend. One of the cans even had bags tied to the top of it. The smell was outrageous. I called parks and recreation and was told the water department handled that park. I then called the water department. We were there as long as I could stand the smell and no one came to empty the cans. Granted, it was close to the end of the business day, so I am sure no one was going to come. What a waste of a nice playground. Shame on the water department’s building and maintenance team. There was no excuse for not having the cans emptied after a busy (and very warm) weekend.

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Our tax dollars at work. On two occasions in the last six months I have witnessed incidents that really have me concerned. Recently I was going west on Ga. Highway 54 just out of Fayetteville when two Fayetteville police cruisers passed me at a high rate of speed. They were passing each other back and forth and their emergency lights were not on. When I pulled into the Flash Foods at Hwy. 54 and Gingercake to get gas, the cruisers were there. I went inside and the officers were getting coffee and laughing and talking. Does our tax money go to purchase these high performance vehicles with thousands of dollars worth of high tech equipment for these guys to play with like toys while violating the very laws they are supposed to be upholding? I witnessed a similar incident with two Tyrone police cruisers a few months earlier. Disturbing, to say the least.

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I’m happy to know that you spend your Sunday mornings so admirably, but please don’t have the arrogance to tell the rest of us how to spend ours.

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Who put this garbage lineup at The Fred together? Every other year now we get a really bad lineup. 2004 and last year’s lineups were great; ‘05 and this year’s lineup are dreadful. Did the Tourism Association hire an amateur to put this lineup together? Typical of the association. I, as well as many others, would like to see where Survivor and Paul Rogers were in the survey. Whoever put this lineup together should go back to whatever they used to do (probably selling hamburgers) because they are not serving the season ticket holders at all. I can only imagine what is next for Series 2; my guess is another bad lineup. I’m sure I’m not the only one with a complaint. Go to Fayetteville where they listen to people.

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Steve Brown thinks he’s so good. Developers have families too. They should be able to build what they want, when they want and where they want. Mayor Logsdon may not be a very likable mayor, but he is the leader of Peachtree City. Get out of his way and let him lead. Stevie Boy keeps forgetting he was voted out of office and that his opinions are no longer wanted.

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If former Mayor Cowan is really selling land to the big box developers, we shouldn’t stand by and leave his name on Ga. Highway 74. We shouldn’t lift someone up who is stabbing us in the back. We deserve better.

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Mayor Logsdon has a definite pattern of calling meetings on one day’s notice, around holidays and omitting to tell the news media. Stop trying to dodge the taxpayers.

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The Tour de Georgia has a new dubious high. The broken-down bike race is now asking the state legislature for a $1 million bailout. The similarities to the tennis center in Peachtree City are so striking it’s unbelievable. The lies that it’ll help attract development and it won’t cost the taxpayers a dime are same ones used by the old Virgil Christian and Tom Farr crowd. Peachtree City is waist-high in yet another sports profiteering sham. I’ll tell you what, Mayor Harold likes paying off those fishy deals. You can’t get the guy to pay his employees a decent wage, but he’ll sure jump at a lot of stupid stuff like bicycle races and bad development authority loans.

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Everyone needs to take their family to the big bike race on April 16. When the cyclists go whipping by, point at them and tell your children that stupid stuff like is why we can’t raise the base pay of our police officers. Tell them our boneheaded elected officials decided to waste $60,000 to $70,000 on a financially hobbled bike race instead of providing incentives to attract good men and women to protect us from violent criminals. Placing egotism ahead of our security and saying there’s no money in the budget is just plain dumb. The mayor is being reckless with his priorities and our tax dollars.

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We would like to thank the Peachtree City Police Department for recovering our son’s stolen bike on March 20. We’d most especially like to thank officers Boyd, Michelle and Wonoski for their excellent work in not only following up on leads, but by catching the thief red-handed while riding it! Unbelievable. Great job, guys.

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It’s really too bad it took citizens coming out in large numbers to convince the planning commissioners to do the right thing on big box stores. Thanks to Steve Brown, who gave the commissioners a workshop session on city ordinances and land planning, Brian Dingivan and Laurie Farmer for all of their tireless efforts to make people aware of what is really going on behind the scenes. We need EVERYONE to come to the council meeting to show your opposition to the huge Lowe’s.

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My son is writing a paper on the TDK Extension for a school project on community issues. He Googled “Harold Logsdon Peachtree” and came up with following: A blog entitled “Give Mayor Harold Logsdon a chance to change”; a blog entitled “Peachtree City: Show Mayor Logsdon the door”; a Fayette Chamber of Commerce 2005 election questionnaire where the mayor said, “I would first like to state that I would be in favor of completing this project [TDK] in cooperation with Fayette and Coweta officials for the most economically efficient solution. The realistic situation is that the TDK Extension is already in motion. I feel that my responsibility is not to be an obstacle to the completion of the project, as it now stands with the current Mayor [Steve Brown]. The timely completion of this project is vital to PTC’s economy and Fayette County at large”; and the AJC Fayette Talk section asking, “Does Peachtree City need a flag?” I told my son his response to the queries should be: A. no way; B. good idea; C. you are an obstacle to the public good, mayor, and how does lost sales taxes and tons of traffic help anyone; and D. I think the flag the mayor had in mind is the skull and crossbones.

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Courteous drivers frequently appall me. Thursday, a large commercial truck was heading east on Ga. Highway 34 in the right-hand lane. I was behind the truck, also heading east in the right-hand lane. We were approaching the 34/154 intersection when the truck stopped at a considerable distance behind the cars waiting at the light. Not understanding why he stopped so far back, I changed lanes to go around him on his left. While coming up alongside him, I realized he had stopped to allow two teen girls to cross the road. By the time I saw them, they had run out from the front side of his truck directly in front of my car. I braked and was relieved that I was moving slowly enough to stop. But to my horror, there was another truck coming up from behind me on my left in the left-turn lane. By this time, the girls were running across the left-turn lane and my car was blocking the view of the driver coming up from behind. The driver was maintaining his speed to get through the green arrow and missed the girls by only a few feet. In my opinion, had those two girls been hit, even though they were jaywalking, or jay-running, the driver who stopped for them would have been equally to blame. Anyone with a valid driver’s license should know better. We don’t have to abandon courtesy, but we do need to garnish it with forethought and wisdom.

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If you have to use credit to go on vacation, you can’t afford to go. Neither can those Joneses you’re trying to keep up with.

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“Cheap” wheat imported from China is not good for America’s pets, and imported “cheap” illegal alien labor is not good for America’s wage-earners.

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Hitler and Tojo weren’t defeated by our military alone, but also by a steadfast home-front.

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It’s oh so easy to deride those who caution against some tiny infraction of time-tested moral standards, because there are seldom immediate disastrous consequences. But when the cumulative effect of all those “tiny” deeds catches up, derision turns to despair.

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