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Almost 4000.oo for printing supplies, she must be doing a lot of print jobs. Maybe there are more mailers coming out cause shee has not sent enough to need over $1500.oo in paper we don't have enough folks in her distict to use that much paper 10 times over.

Dang Howard Maxwell gave her 3500 I thought the limit was 2500. He must have gotten more than he needed at the North Paulding fund raiser.

This is a discussion of local politics. I am concentrating on my local economy, we have an opportunity to grab local control and it would seem we trust our local politicians that live down the street less that we do state and federal. I will say again we will never have another chance, we send a strong message to legislatures, thanks daddy can I have another woopin. I have said it so many times that those claiming to be far right do nothing but repeat rhetoric. Here is an opportunity for local control and you fight it tooth and nail. It's hogwash people waiting on someone to tell them whet

They don't help us, all the research that I have been doing shows that their campaigns are supported outside of Paulding. The locals can not even begin to match campaign contributions from special interest all over the state trying to buy the votes of our legislatures.

I am not sure how our rules apply to what a public figure publishes on his public facebook page so I am giving a link and doing a copy and paste. Since it is in letter form I am reluctant to not post the signature on the letter. So if Mods want to change something that is OK.. FB PAGE Transportation Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax Part 2 I appreciate the response to last week's column on TSPLOST that I got from readers. Overall, the comments seemed to agree with the concerns that I mentioned. Understandably, I suppose, some of the local officials who invested their t

These bases were covered by locking it in the way they did for 10 years, that seems to have been swept under the rug in the marketing plan because that is not well publicized in the available material. Why not make that the basis of your marketing material sense distrust is at the heart of the issue.

What really bothers me is this idea was not that of locals, they were following instructions on what and how. Now the state is saying that they are simply too incompetent to have put anything feasible together so now they are against it. Makes my blood boil. It's not threat, they banked on it. The only way you could upset the state legislature it to vote it in. I have an article from Bill Heath I am going to post in a minute.

Improved roads also get companies to look at us that won't with the traffic issues we have now. If you have a company that is shipping out 10-12 trailers a day, they won't consider coming here, so that knocks us out of the running for them. The truth is that it would be nice to have that on the menu but it is not going to me a make or break for our county. People aren't going to move even if they want to they are under water. It will adversely effect the housing sector of our recovery and keep it depressed for another 10 years. Bad news for realtors here and related industry. What White

Thank you for clarifying your credentials, I appreciate that. So you are saying the people from our county that worked on this project did not consult our own DOT? You are bringing up past incompetence, we are all aware of that and it constantly gets rehashed on here. Is your point that our county will always have leaders so incompetent that we can never put this kind of money in their hands. It is not a point, the regulations were written in a way that they can't change it. I was told that with our existing splost we are doing things differently and waiting until we have the money.

I am not saying everything they did was right, but it does not change the benefit of the splost to us.

I will actually print your first 2 questions and take them with me tomorrow night I think they are valid. As for the third question I don't think that their are a lot of companies around big enough to do these projects, the pool to choose from may be a bit small but with the many counties and towns receiving these funds I suspect there will be plenty of work to go around. I am sure that many of the companies that do repairs on this machinery are are crossing their fingers and praying. My sister worked for one of these shops for years. The machinery for building roads is very expensive, th

Whitey you are old as dirt I doubt you will live long enough to contribute 10,000 pennies into it. Move over let the young shakers and movers rock the roads in Paulding.

Nah I would go on welfare first.

Sorry to leave you hanging sweet cheeks I have been busy out playing, we can pick this up tomorrow.

I am really interested also in what print shop got paid to print these mailers. It would seem that a PAC and even some big local supporters are paying a lot of money for print. County wide mailers are very expensive and one pack seems to be covering more than 3 counties multiple times with mailers, some print shop is making a lot of money off of this.

I did as you ask, and again I see a power struggle over projects being funded. It did raise a question in my mind, about the possibility of fuel taxes not being raised because the splost is doing so well. We know for a fact that the bulk of fuel tax goes to interstates and exchanges on them. I saw were someone remarked that the Governor has refused to raise fuel tax twice and he gave fuel tax relief to certain business sectors. That brings us back to officials that are fighting and I have read remarks from a few, and the few I have read them from all have interstate and exchanges. I

I did not say people voting on it were more intelligent, I said that people given the correct information could comprehend it and make a decision based on that. I am perfectly able to pay for my commute, I am thinking of others on all levels when it comes to higher gas prices and the jobs that will come from it. Quite Frankly I don't feel like I am following the herd, in fact I feel like I am watching a great solution to a problem die on the vine do to a lot untruths and confusion. The people marketing this should be fired. They have done a miserable job of explaining this to the publ

This has what to do with funding Paulding county roads. Tell the truth you can't gripe about taxes when you tax yourself. You get to hate on the taxers, you couldn't care less what it paid for. You also need to let people know you don't have to go to work everyday to make a living therefore you don't care that fuel tax is punitive against those that work, you don't care that there will be new jobs even locally out of this. You simply do not care beyond your own doorstep. That is the truth of many against it, if it does not benefit them big in a big way they don't want it. If they s

Why can't you discuss anything without making it personal or insulting.

So you are trying to tell me that if an 18 wheeler pulls into a truck stop the fuel he purchases will not have a tax on it. You are telling me that if he gets out of that truck, goes into the station that is in a tsplost region they won't charge him the same penny as the rest of us. I am pretty sure Dallas Red put up an article that said that Delta was passing their savings on to their employees. I will go look that up now.

I have never seen the commercials, I did my research on it a long time ago before the first commercial hit the air. I have never even seen a piece of printed ad for it. I don't see why anyone would object to me pointing out how it works. People have enough sense to see the pros and cons of the facts. Why would you or anyone have a problem with me informing people that they are being led to object to things that don't even apply to them. I gave them the list and told them this was what they are voting yes or no on. Are you going to sit here and insist that paulding taxes paid toward

I didn't say none I said very few, I will point out all of our state hwy's in the county as an example. We are still hoping for a light on 61 at the high school. We can put that into the DOT as a priority or we can put a request to widen 10 miles of hwy 61. The same for 92 the state pays for those things so we get them after they have added 4 more lanes to 75. We also have a tsplost in place that is going for roads and improvements. The squabbling over the fuel tax has gone on for years. The legislature said ok you come up with something that will work better to get your needed proje

I just explained that, they are going to raise fuel taxes because they always raise fuel taxes. The issue is one of believing we will be first in line to get any of it. The DOT does exactly as they please with that tax revenue. The many things that you object to in Atlanta are the things they fund with it every single time. And they will continue to do just that.

My sources can be found all over the internet, I am not lying about how this works, they divided the state into economic regions. Created rules and regulations for this. Those rules and regulations are written in stone. People that are telling you that your money is going for things outside your region are lying to you. If they are discussing things that are not on your regions list, then those discussions are not relevant to you. you are welcome to go to the town hall meeting tomorrow night and ask those same questions. I absolutely trust the way this has been set up, I have no issues with

Be sure and catch my report the end of this week, I think even you will be pleased with our progress in just 6 months. It was certainly more than I thought we would accomplish.