Peachtree City

Dan Tennant

Tue, 10/25/2005 - 4:50pm
By: Candidates Forum

If I am asking for your vote to elect me the next mayor of Peachtree City, I had better give you some good reasons to do so. Here are the Top Ten for Tennant:

1. Having served as a city councilman for four years, I have the necessary experience to step right in and lead the city without a learning curve, saving the taxpayers time and money.

2. I will continue to lead the effort to prevent annexation of the West Village, which will only lead to higher density, more traffic, more crowded schools, worse pollution, and more strain on city services.

3. I will lead the effort to cut expenditures by 7% in the next fiscal budget, leaving public safety alone, while working to keep taxes in line with current levels for the next three years, even if that means an annual millage rate decrease.

4. I will keep public safety Priority One by ensuring police and fire departments have the necessary staff and resources to keep us safer and secure.

5. I will exhaust all reasonable opportunities to negotiate a settlement to the $1.5 development authority debt with a spirit of compromise and cooperation replacing antagonism and mistrust, leading to satisfactory resolution of the matter.

6. I will lead the effort to rebuild the bridges of trust and communication with the business community, state and local governments, and the Fayette County Commissioners.

7. I will work closely with Ga. DOT and Fayette County to maximize opportunities to widen 74 South, align Rockaway Road, get TDK built and get MacDuff Parkway connected to 74.

8. I will effectively and efficiently lead the city council to make wise and prudent decisions keeping in mind as top priority average family concerns and values, then hand the ball off to the city manager for policy implementation without interference and micro management.

9. I will explore the possibility of selling the tennis center to a private concern, thereby providing substantial funds to expand the Gathering Place, provide a place for the city’s youth to have for their own, and improve our cart path system.

10. I will remember who is the boss, and that is you the citizen, and do everything in my power to recapture our image as the finest planned community in America.

Go to www.TennantforMayor.com for more information. I humbly ask for your vote on Nov. 8.

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Why Dan will be a Good Mayor
Submitted by G-bug on Mon, 10/31/2005 - 3:54pm.

Ten years ago, Dan Tennant objected to a local developer running for council unopposed. He said it was a conflict of interest. Dan was villified by the good ole boys since Dan's write-in deal required an election. That took courage. Dan got almost half of the vote -- as a write-in!

Dan can take the heat. He has a young family. He is against annexation.

If not Dan, then vote for Steve Brown. The other candidates have a pretty clear loyalty other than to me.

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Dan Tennant
Submitted by Greg T. Madison on Mon, 10/31/2005 - 4:01pm.

Dan Tennant won that council election standing on two main issues; lower taxes and anti-annexation. Both he still stands for today, Tennant is a trustworthy citizen that will make a great mayor!!

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Greg, yer nutz about Dan
Submitted by Investq on Mon, 10/31/2005 - 4:50pm.

Greg, yer nutz about Dan....Dan Tennant for Mayor ? No way. Yes, he ran against a developer for Council (Jim Pace of Group VI). But now
he’s done an about face. Dan has now crawled in the sack with
Pace and has promised to leave a Taxpayer’s check on the night
stand to cover the illegal DAPC bills. He’s not the same guy.

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Nuts for sure
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Submitted by scruffy on Mon, 10/31/2005 - 5:02pm.

Greg and some others are nuts if they think Tennant can get elected and more nuts if they think he'll be a good mayor. The only sane position on DAPC debt is to let the court decide and then obey.

And its spelled nuts, not nutz. Its only a matter of time before that stupid hamster or Ms. Squirrel corrects you.


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Barf alert
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Submitted by H. Hamster on Mon, 10/31/2005 - 4:39pm.

Good god Greg. If you're going to post things like

"Tennant is a trustworthy citizen that will make a great mayor!!"

please put a warning label in the title for those of us who may be eating while reading.


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Pipe Dream
Submitted by dkinser on Wed, 10/26/2005 - 8:06am.

Several of Dan's top 10 reasons are flawed.

1. You served as a City Councilman, but were summarily booted by the very public that you think will vote for you today. I would guess that they decided 4 years was too much, so why give you another 4 years?

2. Preventing a controlled growth will only result in higher taxes or diminished city services. Take your choice, it doesn't work both ways.

3. You state that you will "lead efforts" yet you also state that you will assign that responsibility to a fall guy, the City Manager. That's not leadership, that is playing the blame game. If you are so certain that you can achieve that much reduction, why aren't you the one spearheading it? Can't be done.

4. Public safety should be a high priority on anyone's list. But if you are cutting the budget as much as 7% yet increasing expenditures for public safety, that means you are going to have to seriously cut some programs. What will they be? Golf cart path maintenance, programs for seniors, programs for teens, or sell the greenspaces?

5. If you pull out the miracle and get elected Mayor and your City Attorney and the city's Bonding Attorney tell you that it is illegal for the city to do this, are you going to go against their professional experience and do it anyway? That would jeopardize the city losing its bond rating which would have a serious financial impact to the city.

Dana Kinser

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RE:TENNANT'S PIPE DREAM
Submitted by Greg T. Madison on Wed, 10/26/2005 - 10:58am.

Dana Dana Dana....

1) Dan did lose but so did Dan Lakley for mayor, oh and isn’t he now a state representative. Hmmm

2) I don't know how you came up with the idea that preventing controlled growth will hurt the city..... I mean look at wal-mart, or even look at what the city is starting to look like driving down 74. If we get a control on the growth of our city we will not be expanding, or we will be expanding very little, thus not having to expand expend issuers, which reduces our taxes.

3)What Mr. Tennant has said and I will spell it out for you.... he will lead the policy making efforts, and pass the buck once the policy is made, you see this is how our city government is set up, Dan will not micromanage, just like the other 4 candies have said (except brown).

4) This is my favorite argument you have said because it's so easy to debunk. Tennant has said he will reduce spending (he already has, look at his record). He will do this by cutting everything but public safety’s budget approximately 7%.

5) AND FINALLY Tennant knows what the city attorneys are saying, he also knows that you can always, ALWAYS negotiate the debt. And that is what Tennant; along with 4 other candidates have proposed we do.

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