Ramsey-Yes. Brown-NO

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ugh...so much for a password change here, a new temp ID will have to do for now.

The old adage of "it's better to deal with the fool you know than the one you don't" is like most old adages: tired,expired, trite. In the election tomorrow, you have a definite "known" and an "unknown."

Despite what you read from some Brownies who feel like character attacks are
a normal way of life and the only way they can discuss anything since they're limited intellectually, there isn't a lot known about Matt Ramsey's politics beyond his work with Mac Collins. Because some developers have contributed to his campaign, some would tell you he'll be their slave and do everything they ask. To say that this view is extremely simplistic would be giving too much credit to knee-jerk anti-Ramsey crowd that also tends to be anti-everything else except Steve Brown
for that matter.

With Brown, you definitely know what you're getting: a lot of accusations and
mud-slinging towards anyone who dares to disagree with him. Oh yeah, Letters to the Editor blaming someone or some group for every ill in society. You're NOT going to get a person interested in reaching a consensus or working with anyone. Brown's term as Mayor was like a 4 year temper tantrum where his oft-repeated public charges
of criminal activity and corruption overshadowed what little he and Council
accomplished, save embarrassing Peachtree City.

I don't trust Steve Brown and I think he sorely lacks real-world experience and basic maturity in working and having to deal with people. I don't see accusing everyone as being a developer or
crooked as being mature enough to lead.Here's why I don't really trust him:

His push to allow the Lutheran Church to become a 24/7 CVS was beyond asinine.

His castigation publicly of the Fayette Co Commission for at-large voting as opposed to district voting might have
made him a hero of north Fayette and the NAACP, but no one in favor of district voting will win anything here, so Brown
definitely changed his tune on that position.

Brown's railing now on how terrible the TDK idea was 100% contradicts his stance
as Mayor when he proudly said no Council had funded the TDK project as much as his.

Talking to Weiland about Westside as a "private citizen" while a moratorium was in place was completely disingenuous and the kind of BS Brown thinks he can do simply because he's "right" and everyone else is wrong.

I'm going with the rather unknown in Ramsey because I don't think he'll be a guy who makes PTC look like a bunch of crazed lunatics AGAIN.

As Sniffles aptly pointed out, as the most junior rep in GA, the person in this seat isn't going to have much clout anyway("shutup newbie!"), so I don't see a big risk in going with an unknown in Ramsey who seems to have the maturity and experience to simply not screw things up and represent the district honorably.

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Take It From Bob Lenox
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Submitted by Spear Road Guy on Tue, 12/18/2007 - 9:44am.

I picked this up from a blog from a couple of weeks ago. Please notice Bob Lenox, a TDK support and Matt Ramsey supporter, said, "It is not often in government that you can clearly find the culprit when things go wrong, but in this case every one of us who has worked for years to make TDK Boulevard a reality knows that Steve Brown stopped it." You can read the entire letter below.

All I can say is THANK YOU Steve Brown! That road and all of the lies behind it would have killed us.

The Citizen, October 12, 2005
Lenox: Brown has often impeded road projects
It was pretty obvious in reading Mayor Brown’s letter about TDK Boulevard last week that he had little or no knowledge about the history of this project. I particularly liked the part where he said some previous council should have built the road so he wouldn’t have to worry about it. Here is an historical timeline and the salient facts about this road:

From 1997 through 2000 no new roads were allowed to be built in the Atlanta metro region as a result of a court order in an environmental clean air lawsuit. This meant no widening of Ga. Highway 54 or Ga. Highway 74, and no building of TDK Boulevard.

When the court order was overturned in 2000 the city immediately began work on TDK with the goal of building it before the widening of Hwy. 54 West.

Peachtree City agreed with Coweta County to pay for the design and engineering of the entire road because it was cost-effective to do so, it was going to save a lot of time, and it gave us control over the project.

The original design met then existing FAA regulations and with prompt action by the city the road could have been built to these original plans.

When Steve Brown took office on Jan. 1, 2002, the design and engineering work was virtually complete, all the necessary right-of-way was either in hand or committed to the city at no cost, the city had the necessary financial resources to build the road, and it was estimated that the road could be completed and opened to traffic by July 1, 2003.

For the next two years Steve Brown personally stonewalled this project. You don’t have to take my word for this. Pick up your telephone and call Greg Dunn, Fayette County Commission chairman, or any member of the Fayette County Commission. Call Ken Steele, mayor of Fayetteville, or any member of his council. Call Mitch Seabaugh, our state senator at the time. Call Lynn Westmoreland, then our state representative, now our representative to the U.S. Congress. Call the chairman or any member of the Coweta County Commission.

Ladies and gentlemen, building a road nowadays is an arduous and complicated undertaking that can easily take many years. Getting it done means that many good people must stay the course over many years.

Unfortunately for us it also means that stopping it requires only one bad or incompetent person who fails to do the job when necessary.
It is not often in government that you can clearly find the culprit when things go wrong, but in this case every one of us who has worked for years to make TDK Boulevard a reality knows that Steve Brown stopped it.

Congratulations, Mr. Brown. That was your goal when you took office and you did it. I hope you feel proud.

TDK will get built some day when competent leadership returns to our city. It will cost us all hundreds of thousands of unnecessary dollars and it will, of course, be far too late to take the pressure off of Hwy. 54 West during the widening.

Our industrial park will continue to lose jobs and not be able to replace them. The Braelinn Road business community will continue to suffer. It is amazing the amount of harm one bad person can do.
Bob Lenox
Former 3-term mayor, 1992-2001
Peachtree City, Ga.

Vote Republican, Vote Steve Brown


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They are both wrong
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Submitted by nuk on Tue, 12/18/2007 - 10:17am.

Lenox was all for TDK in the early 2000's and a lot of others were too......until Coweta County made their plans known. Now, you'd have to look pretty long and hard to find anyone on the Fayette County side that supports it.

Brown was vocally against TDK before becoming Mayor, then he publicly bragged about spending more money than any council before him in making the TDK project become reality. Trying to have it both ways doesn't work too well.

Both Brown and Lenox aren't/weren't telling the whole truth in regards to TDK.


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Matt Ramsey = More Traffic
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Submitted by Sniffles on Tue, 12/18/2007 - 5:55am.

Matt Ramsey is a good guy.

The people backing Matt Ramsey financially are not good guys.

Matt Ramsey will help build TDK for his backers.
Matt Ramsey will worsen the quality of life in Peachtree City so that his financial backers might prosper further.

Send a message to the people who bought and paid for Harold Logsdon:
"We Don't Get Fooled Again!"


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Re: Matt Ramsey=More Traffic
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Submitted by JGF9148 on Tue, 12/18/2007 - 10:52am.

Your right, I'm sure he's a great guy, but between who is backing him, and his comments regarding the DOT....I sense him and ole Mitch are already planning the TDK ribbon cutting ceremoney.

In the words of Nancy Regan: Just say no!


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