With what smells of healthcare rationing, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force reversed policies implemented in 2002 regarding mammography, and their new recommendations will take us backward instead of forward in the fight against breast cancer.

This election cycle for Peachtree City’s mayor and City Council posts have focused on taxes, budgets, services and land use as being the primary areas of debate. Other issues were debated but with less intensity.

As the election for runoff candidates quickly approaches this Dec. 1, and no matter who your favorite candidates are, please exercise your right to vote and be heard. There are so many issues the city has faced over the years that have been influenced by that voice and equally influenced by a lack of it. The same holds true next week.

Let me say thank you ahead of time to everyone who is going to vote on Dec 1. The city’s village concept will prevail in this election. I’d like to address two key areas in my final letter before the runoff election. They are recreation and managing the city’s budget and reserves in the future.

As we bring an interesting and sometimes spirited campaign season to a close, every candidate must make clear what it is that we bring to the table.

On Dec. 1, the voters of Peachtree City have a big decision to make. With the economic downturn, the city’s budget decisions will be tough over the next few years. We will have to work hard to maintain our quality of life, public safety and facilities, while not increasing the burden on taxpayers.

I went to the Brown Cemetery in Peachtree City on Saturday, Nov. 14, to cut the grass at my daughter’s great-grandparents’ and great-great-grandparents’ graves.

The hyperbole and the rhetoric concerning issues in this city have become out of control and need to be addressed.

There are impractical comments being made about the destruction of recreation, the loss of Peachtree City, employee replacements, etc.

The voters of this county voted down this year’s SPLOST referendum by a margin of three to one. That has to be a clear sign to our commissioners that the people of this county aren’t interested in putting $51 million into the West Fayetteville Bypass or other such projects only in the interest of a few.

At the PTC Council meeting on Nov. 5, there was a lot of passionate discussion about possible new cellphone towers in the city, so I thought I’d share my views on this hot issue.

It is with much appreciation that I thank the 6,000 Peachtree City citizens who voted on Nov. 3. Voter turnout was nearly double what it was in 2007, the last non-presidential election year.

I offer a no-nonsense, plain-talking philosophy where we return to the village concept of the city and stop the crazy rezoning and additional big box stores from coming in.

Last week, Robert Horgan, the Fayette County commissioner, filed an appeal to overturn the findings of the ethics panel, which found him in violation of the Fayette County ethics ordinance.

After reading Mr. Gilmer’s latest diatribe in your newspaper, it is obvious that rational thought is not part of his make-up. But for you to publish his letter advocating the overthrow of the government makes me wonder about your newspaper.

As citizens, we owe Barack Obama a huge debt of gratitude, for he has done what no president before him has been able to do.

As House Democrats voted on their healthcare overhaul this month, they should have also voted to abolish the Congressional Budget Office, too. It would have been much more honest than their current strategy for hiding the true cost of their legislation.

The current healthcare Plan (HR 3962) that has been unveiled by the liberals in the U.S. House of Representatives must be stopped before it becomes an approved legislation.

Yet again [Nov. 13] there was a serious accident at the intersection of Windgate and Robinson roads in Peachtree City. I sincerely hope that when you print the article on this, you question why the city has not seen fit to make this intersection a four-way stop.

It is almost time to wish all in The Citizen Newspaper Nation a merry Christmas holiday season. Ace politico opinion reporter, the cowboy engineer here, just before a wishful unscheduled appearance on the Larry King Live Show.

H-O-N-O-R. Your opinion piece of Nov. 7 begs a response from me. As a longtime resident of Peachtree City, I have often noted your biased and distorted pieces directed toward elected officials and county organizations. Once elected to a council seat, I certainly wasn’t surprised to be on the receiving end of what has become a typical tone of The Citizen.

Now there are two and the race goes on.

I have already said so much detail on my positions it is hard to find a fresh way to restate issues. But I will try while pointing you to donhaddix.com/elect for links to my past letters to the editor and more detailed information.

We once did the sour sewer deal, then went for the public streets/traffic light X-Files. We had the Boondoggle – gone, and the Logsforbrains dynamic duo – out. The jig is up. That’s a 50-percent batting average.

I want to thank all who voted for me last week. I look forward to your continued support in the runoff election on Dec. 1 or during advanced voting Nov. 23-25. Remember that every single vote counts, especially in a runoff when so many people don’t bother to vote.

First, let me say I’m humbled to be in a runoff for City Council Post 1. Second, I’ve been referred to as plain-talking, no-nonsense and I’ll add to that: no sell-out.

Mayor and council members, yesterday my husband and I were out in the golf cart on the cart paths, and I said, “The people who planned this city 50 years ago were brilliant.”

In response to Name Withheld and Mr. Joseph Jarrell regarding, “Why not cut these school budget items?”

A message to all Fayette County teachers: Suck it up, hunker down, batten down the hatches, and prepare for hard times, but stop complaining.

Several years ago, I had reason to fly to Miami on business. Upon arrival, I noticed that the overhead directional signs in the terminal were in Spanish first, then English underneath. Ever since then, I have elected to fly into Fort Lauderdale and drive to Miami.

Given the general trend in this country toward socialism for the last 75 years, and the rapid slide of our culture, freedom, and economy in the last decade, how should a liberty-seeking, self-sufficient American react?

I have been a resident of PTC for eight years. Initially I elected to use Waste Management Services for my trash pick-up, paying additional for them to pick up my recyclables.

I am not in the habit of sending anonymous letters, but I must this time, because what I have to say could cost me my job.