He is one of the few who has the guts to tell it like it is.

at that comment.....

Birdman,

Make up your mind. You railed against me when I ran against Logsdon as someone who was stopping the TDK Extension. Now you try to convince people otherwise.

Your good friend Bob Lenox had the guts to tell the truth, see his letter below from the archieves.

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.

He sure explained what he thought of you. He tells it like it was and it shows why we need someone competent to be Mayor this time around. For the record, any of the 3 current candidates for mayor ARE CERTAIN to be be a better mayor than you were. I will be voting for the guy with a full-time job since I believe someone with relevant and current exposure to today's business environment is most likely to be a better leader than some others.

We have had this discussion before. You didn't get it then and don't now. I previously chalked it up to you being a typical politician. Now I'm beginning to think you can't really figure it out.
My point was that you are a waffling ego-maniac. You will say whatever you think will appeal to the people. The whole TDK letter you wrote exactly proves my point. Now, this is where I seem to lose you so I will try and put it in the most simplistic terms (try reading it slowly).

When you ran for office in 2001 you opposed TDK. In fact you dedicated an entire part of your website to this opposition. I NEVER stated that you were actually "for" TDK. But in 2005 it seemed that the people were in favor to TDK. So you wrote the letter to the Editor that I referenced. In that letter you go to great lengths to take full credit for moving TDK along. You blamed Lenox for not completing the project. That is why Lenox wrote the above letter.
My entire point is neither for or against TDK, it is simply to point out to the people how you are willing to rewrite history, bend the truth, take credit for something you didn't do, or outright attack and lie about others.

Lately people have been saying how "honest" you are. Really, Steve, you aren't "honest" or "forthright," or "honorable." You simply see yourself in some sort of "savior" role, to "save" us all from "evil developers." You attack everyone (including me) who dares to cross you. You even stated in your answer to me that my "good friend Bob Lenox" told the truth. While, you don't even know if I know Bob Lenox. So why the connection? Because you assume that everyone in PTC will disregard me if I am "connected."
So here's a news flash. I am not a developer, not "good friends" with anyone from previous or current governments. I am simply a citizen who detests the way you accuse, lie, and insinuate. But mostly I can not stand how you see yourself as the self appointed savior of Peachtree City.

So Steve, I'm not sure I put this in simple enough terms for you to understand. I doubt I can make it any easier.

Too bad. You could have actually been a good mayor but for your ego-maniacal desire to ride into town on your white horse and lead us from the despair that you found here when you moved in.

Simple enough?

if he came up and knocked on my door.

I'm not sure what you are trying to say with this post, to tell you the truth.

All that said, who are you voting for in the upcoming Mayoral election? Still undecided here...

There is not much of a choice in that race. The voting records are clear between two candidates and the third works full-time and has no experience and no record of advocacy on the issues.

should have the job over someone with an actual CAREER?

Maybe I misunderstood your comments.

Will a housewife do?

Steve Brown would like you to think he is a man of "high character," but he is simply a failed politician. He will say whatever he can to attack his opponents and to get votes. He has proven this time and time again. In fact his current fluff piece is a typical example. He says:

"Certainly, one road, the TDK Extension, was pitched to the masses as a road of great value. Anyone who dared question the virtue of the “road” (I know this first hand) was labeled an agitator of the highest degree, a menace to traffic efficiency and someone who just could not get along. How dare anyone question a road?"

Steve opposed TDK in 2001 when he ran for mayor, then he boasted that "Our current council was the only one that actually programmed funds in the city’s budget for TDK." (Citizen Letter to the Editor Oct. 5,2005) Now he says he was always opposed to it. So, first he was against it, then he was for it, then he was against it. Sounds familiar?
If Steve will constantly change his mind on TDK, what else will he constantly change on?
Annexation: Opposed in 2001, tried to negotiate with Weiland Homes in 2005, the annexation of the West Village. All the while during an Annexation moratorium.
Experience: He chastised current candidates last week over "lack of experience," but when he ran for Mayor his experience consisted of part time manager of a dental office. Every candidate is more experienced than Steve was (then again, look at how he turned out).

His history is "on the record." If you want to read his own words regarding his support of TDK simply click the "archives" button at the top of this page and select "2005," "Oct.5", "Letters," and scroll down to the letter entitled "Consider what record shows about council’s TDK extension decisions."

As I said, he will change according to popular opinion. It makes him neither "honest," "grass roots," "right," a "man of the people," or anything else. He is simply a typical "politician" who has too much time on his hands.

and Steve never has a comment for it.

Always right and being one of the few who has the guts to tell us is certainly 2 different things.

Steve always tells it as he sees it and he is right (meaning correct)about 75% of the time. Not sure if my correct % is any better, but who cares?

He was a terrible mayor, but it seems he has settled into his role as Cal's mouthpiece - which I must admit - suits him quite well. I would never want him back in any position of power and I guess if he didn't jump into this incredibly fertile anti-incumbent race for mayor or city council (3 seats), that he never would again.

Never say never, but I think we are safe for at least 4 years.