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I’m looking for the candidate with guts to say NO Minor thoughts on local themes: Fayetteville Mayor Ken Steele has no opposition to another four-year term as top dog in the county’s commercial center. Two years ago, 7 percent of Fayetteville’s registered voters bothered to come to the polls to vote. Could there be any connection between those two facts? *** The Fayette County School System’s definition of “rumor”: “What we haven’t officially decided to let you know about yet. When we decide in our wisdom that you need to know what we have decided, then it becomes a fact.” Side note — If the system is considering closing an elementary school, which do you suppose will be shuttered: A new school or the oldest in the county? *** Coming: A study to “document” that principals and school system administrative folks need a pay raise. Study this: The inexorable growth in numbers of central office, supervisory, administrative and “support” personnel while the ratio of teachers to support staff declines. Fayette could be approaching a situation of too many chiefs and well-paid clerks and not enough teachers. *** Isn’t that going to be a pretty fence on Ga. Highway 74 South? You know, the one that is supposed to shield all those Peachtree City homeowners from six-lane traffic hard up against their back doors? The sight brings warm reminders of downtown Atlanta. And when do you suppose they will start parking tank cars with toxic chemicals on the rail siding on Hwy. 74 North? Ain’t progress grand? *** One question keeps me scratching my head about all the propaganda being ginned up to justify a Kohl’s big box department store next to Planterra Ridge. Nobody addresses this: Why should the wise heads on the Peachtree City Council feel any obligation to sell city-owned streets and rights of way to a big box developer? The developer — regardless of his zoning rights on the commercial property — has no legal claim to land the city has owned for many decades. Will the council become the developer’s de facto partner in a project that could not otherwise happen without the collusion of the council members? What kind of people have we elected who would do such deliberate damage to Peachtree City? *** Tyrone faces a challenge in November: The ho-hum-Fayetteville challenge. Bluntly, do enough folks in Tyrone care about what is being perpetrated upon them to take the trouble to vote in new faces on the council who will actually do differently than the current crew? Well, do you care enough? One hint: Vote against candidates who speak only in generalities. Every time, every one. Pin them down on specific controversial topics and make them commit to a position. If they refuse to commit, refuse to vote for them. *** Same can be said about Peachtree City candidates. Pin ‘em down. Vote against vagueness and happy-speak. I have one rule for my PTC vote: If you just moved here in the past 10 years, I’m not interested in having you run my hometown. You just don’t know enough, despite your good intentions. Give me some history, some kids reared here, some vested hometown interest, some willingness to do right by the majority of people who live here. Then I’ll consider voting for you. *** I have a sure-fire way to get elected on a seven-point plan: If elected, I promise NO local tax increase, NO change to the land use plan, NO zoning change unless justified strictly by the land use plan, NO increase in bureaucracy, NO special interests except homeowners, NO annexations, NO sewer service outside the current city limit lines. NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO. I am looking for a candidate who has the guts to say NO. Where can I find a candidate like that? login to post comments | Cal Beverly's blog
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