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Interesting. I honestly don't know to what extent local politicians effect the supply and demand of nightlife and retail therapy. Is it possibly a combination of lack of political will along with a unsupportive population? In my decade here, it seems like the only restaurants and stores that get local support are the big chains. Open a Waffle House or Dollar General you'll be successful. Try something different, you get a vacant building. Agree, disagree? What else am I missing?

That may be a better way of stating it. To me, the parties have both branded themselves into a corner with Liberal = Democrat, Conservative = Republican. I've moved on, after 20 years, from the Republicans both nationally and locally. If Trump is a Republican, then I'm out. Don't get me wrong, I like Trump, own a few of his ties and love his game shows. That doesn't mean I want him as President. If the local PC Republicans represent what today's local Republican party is, with their anti-business, government takeover mentality, then I don't want any part of them either.

I've leaned that liberals and conservatives are more similar than they'd like to admit. They both want to use the power of government to force people who do not believe they way they do to live the way that they deem "right". I'm done with both of them.

Interesting point of view. I hope you're not correct, but suspect that you are. If that's the case, in efforts to maintain a "Bible Belt", we've created Cobb County's trailer park.

Interstate makes sense for the stores and retaurants along the I-75 corridor. I can't imagine, however, that all the folks I saw in the downtown part of Cartersville yesterday drove over from the interstate. The stores and restaurants were bustling. It was hard to find a place to park, and it was 7:00 at night. If you're walking on Main St in Dallas at 7:00, someone will call the police to report a "suspicious person".

I ask this out of ignorance. Why can Cartersville, with fewer residents than Paulding, have such a great downtown with restaurants, retail and nightlife, but neither Hiram nor Dallas can? Paulding has 40,000 more people than Bartow, similar demographics and a higher median income. On paper, we should have the better restaurants, stores and things to do. What are they doing that we aren't?

I'm probably a little behind everyone, as I just noticed that the Phoenix Bar is now a thrift store. I was just thinking the other day that, what Paulding needs is another junk store. I think our county motto should read something like, "Paulding County, Georgia's Yard Sale". Would look good on our signs entering the county. Rant over. I'll wait now for the first "maybe you should just move" comment.

Is this the old Birdies location? I miss that place. The one in Cedarcrest is OK, and they deliver, but not as good.

It's gotten to the point that I can't tell the difference between this page, the Stop FB page, the Good Govt FB page, and the PC Informer FB page. The same 6 or 7 people arguing about the same issue and copying and pasting the same talking points. It's gotten so predictable that it's just boring now. I've seen the same posts so many times that I can now predict which "response" will be copied and pasted when some poor new guy posts something that gets them riled up. It was comical, now it's just boring.

Whitey, I understand your point. I do, however, believe that many of the folks that live around the airport that are outside that 5 mile radius that causes you to pay triple homeowners insurance premiums may disagree with the need for a fire department, as it would service this long neglected part of the county as well as the airport.

Whitey, I'm not poking at you by any means, just intrigued by your campaign. Would it not have been easier to pull off a write in candidate victory with one of these smaller turnout elections, or is that impossible due to our election laws? I don't think I've ever lived anywhere that folks vote 4 times in one calendar year. My hypothesis is that turnout would be higher with less elections. Maybe voter fatigue has something to do with it?

While I don't disagree, I will point out that the vast majority (92%) voted "I don't care".

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I replied to this in another thread, but want it to have a life of it's own. So, starting Wednesday, what happens? Lots of folks, either way, are going to be disappointed. Do you think the politically active folks (all 2,500 of you) in this county will... a. begin reloading for 2 years from now when the original Stop 3 are up for re-election? b. accept the results of the election and give the incoming Chairperson time to be successful or fail? c. immediately begin discrediting the incoming chair, continuing business as usual? d. something else. I have no idea how to mak

So, starting Wednesday, what happens? Lots of folks, either way, are going to be disappointed. Do you think the politically active folks (all 2,500 of us) in this county will... a. begin reloading for 2 years from now when the original Stop 3 are up for re-election? b. accept the results of the election and give the incoming Chairperson time to be successful? c. immediately begin discrediting the incoming chair, continuing business as usual? d. something else. I have no idea how to make one of those fancy polls. If someone wants to plagiarize this, I'll be flattered. I wa

I read it over and was underwhelmed as well. If I were on the fence, this would not have steered me away. I am not voting for Mr. Leggett simply because he comes off as an uneducated curmudgeon who will deepen the already hard held stereotype that Paulding is just a bunch of backwoods rednecks that hate all things not 1950.

It appeared on Paulding county uncensored a couple days ago.

If the number of people early voting is any indication of just how squeaky that wheel is, then no need to bring the ear plugs. I couldn't help but wonder the other day when I voted, do we really need 8 people here in the elections office for little ole me? I know some of them are volunteers, but the ones behind the counters reading their Kindles are probably not. 87.5% of the folks in this county does not give a flip about that airport (based on May's voter turnout), yet we keep electing anyone that will raise their hands and say, "I'm against it and I'm willing to run". Scary. We'l

You articulated this so much better than I did. I want to throw in one more thing. I hear us compared to Bartow and Polk as well. Those counties actually grow things agriculturally. That's another example of a large property tax area that consumes very little in terms of county resources. I can't remember if it was the school board or economic development that showed the statistics on Paulding's tax base problem, but they summed it up in 2 sentences. "We don't build much (factories) in Paulding, and we don't grow much (farm) in Paulding".

Whitey, I know you are going to find this hard to believe, but we agree on more than we disagree, and I typically learn a thing or two from your posts. And you are correct in many of the reasons I moved here. Heck, I thought I was buying a home in Cobb / Acworth until I saw the address on the documents my real estate agent sent me. I did not know anything about this county and its issues a dozen years ago, you are correct. Now, does that mean that, since I'm relatively new and my motives for buying a home a dozen years ago were different, that I can't care about how my county mov

Thank you for the correction surepip. I hate to hear that about your business. If that's the way that the leaders have been towards your business, then I understand why you'd want them replaced. Im sure you want them replaced with business friendly leaders. I guess I should tone down my comments if it seems like I'm "railing against" folks. Just to be clear, all the newbies on the BOC that I've been able to get to know are good, fine men. My issues are political, not personal. Same with the anti folks. I know many of them and know that their hearts are in the right place, I simply

More houses actually compound the problem. For every dollar collected in property taxes from a single family home, it uses $1.70 in services. This is according to several economic development studies. Central business district small businesses consume the least in services, while fast food and low end retail consume the most. Yet, we are laser focused on more houses, where the next Arby's (Cedarcrest) and Waffle House are going be. Maybe another Dollar Tree. Yes Whitey, I'd welcome a chemical plant. Make me an offer and you can have my land, if it will help get us off this highway

Ok, I'm confused. And surpip, forgive me as I don't remember if it's your former post or not, so please correct me if it wasn't you. But...hasn't most of the anti-everything folks on here complained on one hand about the alleged "build it and they will come" strategy with the airport and film studio, then on the other hand now complain that industrial buildings are not being built? Not being a smartass, I'm literally confused as to what the difference is.

Just a thought. If male or female are no longer absolutes, then what is? Can my child "identify" as a gay, black, atheist American Indian on his financial aid paperwork? Seriously, not poking at anything here, just asking where does this stop? What is absolute?