Ole sarge. I agree completely.

First of all, the turnout was probably more than 9% since you are not counting the few democrat ballots that were cast. Although they did not have an outcome in this race, if you are going to criticize me, then get the facts straight.

Secondly, it is most certainly a mandate. It is really a sad state of affairs in our community that such a low number of people can effect the policies , but that having been said, it is the sad position we are in. There is in fact a large number of apathetic registered voters (and unregistered for that matter) in this area, but those who are active and participate had their voices heard on Tuesday. Those are the people that we really want voting anyway. I do not want the ignorant voting who don't even know or study the issues. You know, the "I'll vote for her because she is a woman" or "I'll vote for him because he is in a wheelchair".

Those who have spoken have done so resoundingly. The word is for the shenanigans to stop at the FCBOC and for that governing board to get on with some issues that really matter.

For instance:
1. Traffic
2. Continue managed growth
3. Spend as little of our money as is possible.
4. Return what you do not spend.

And many others.

I will disagree with you about the mandate. Let's see how the three amigos behave in the next 120 days or so.

P.S. The best I can tell is that it is total somwhere between 12% and 13% (which by the way is abominable). I have voted each and every time the polls were open sice I turned 18. I am a little ashamed to say that I did vote for Paul Tsongas in 1992. He would have been better than Clinton. My only foray into the other side of the aisle.

I think that Dalmation195 and I are on the same page. We're just using different terminology. I also agree on the priority issues: traffic, managed growth, reduction of budget excesses.

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I wasn't going to go online tonight but had to ask--- surely you made a mistake....Isn't crime number one ? And if you left out schools because you don't have kids that's ok, frankly, because we should vote our own interests.

But don't think crime is up there ?

I absolutely agree with you on crime being a priority. However, I really believe that managing growth has a profound impact on crime and schools.

We are not heavily populated and that helps both crime levels and our schools. Look at the places with the most dense populations in Metro Atlanta and you'll see high crime and crowded schools: Clayton, Fulton, DeKalb, Gwinnett (year by year).

To me, it all goes hand in hand.

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