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oldman
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Posted: Fri May 23rd, 2008 08:27 pm |
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| I believe the pontoon boat was not bought with tax payers money. Donations i think.
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jpgreen007
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Posted: Fri May 23rd, 2008 09:05 pm |
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Also DFACS is a waste of money Attachment: 1061.gif (Downloaded 123 times)
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BillT962
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Posted: Sat May 24th, 2008 10:58 pm |
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romegasir wrote: public safety in general.................................we don't need 'em..................................it should be survival of the fittest...........................................
how about we combine the garbage dept and police departments. make cleaning up the streets really mean something LOL
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jpgreen007
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Posted: Sat May 24th, 2008 11:31 pm |
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Sounds as if the D A s office is a waste of tax dollars too.... Go Leigh... Attachment: 1061.gif (Downloaded 113 times)
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ChattoogaResident
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Posted: Mon Jul 21st, 2008 10:06 pm |
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You think drive home vehicles are a problem in Floyd County? I'd like to know if the taxpayers in Adairsville are aware of the fact that one of their city vehicles is being driven back and forth to Gaylesville, AL every day. 
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Posted: Mon Jul 21st, 2008 10:49 pm |
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| no problem... premium gas is only 4.80 a gallon... Attachment: ffs_money1_myspace.gif (Downloaded 84 times)
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serpentfoot
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Posted: Fri Jul 25th, 2008 01:45 pm |
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The greatest waste of money , now and up-coming?, is Rome's planned redevelopment of W. 3rd St., using public funds to finance business for the private gain of David Do$$ and Tom Hackett--Dempsey Auction Co. will benefit from that too--
And they also want us to vote [Nov. 4] to amend the constitution so they can even use School TAD [Tax Allocation District] money meant for children's education for the re-developers private gain projects.
That "walking bridge" somebody has already mentioned here, is part of the W. 3rd St. Re-development Plan. David Do$$, on the DOT, funnelled that money here so he could benefit from a business at the other end of it--also at public expense. He even hopes to get it at the expense of our children's education--if they slip that over on the taxpayers in the Nov. 4 election.
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failedbelle
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Posted: Fri Jul 25th, 2008 02:06 pm |
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| Just read a story in the RNT that I didn't understand. Maybe some of you that understand how our county gov. works will read it and can explain it to me. It is the story about the Chamber of Commerce voting on something to do with the splost. What do they have to do with the splost????
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serpentfoot
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Posted: Fri Jul 25th, 2008 02:19 pm |
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David Do$$ pretended that he was not unethically using his public office (on the DOT Board) for his private gain when he funnelled that money here for the walking bridge. Do$$ claimed that he only decided to do some business there after the State Mutual group and others decided not to do the re-development.
But in fact State Mutual and others were not that interested in the W. 3rd Redevelopment on this 2nd attempt at it. But when they showed they were not excited about it anymore, DO$$ KEPT URGING THEM TO GO FORWARD WITH IT--"Or I can't get the money there for the bridge. It would be 'a bridge to NOWHERE' if you don't show you are going to redevelope it with new business." He knew they were not really interested in it anymore. But at Do$$'s urging they played along like they were still interested. Then after the bridge was a done deal, all others dropped back and let Mr. Do$$ and Mr. Hackett have it. It was like a MONEY LAUNDERING DEAL. Those others were just standing in for Mr. Do$$ a bit, so he could claim he was not using his public office for his own private gain when he got the public money for the bridge here, "but thought others were going to redevelope some business at the other end of the bridge."
Chief John Ross's home and farm site at the west end of that "Chief John Ross Memorial Bridge" is not "NOWHERE" and he was not a "NOBODY" as Do$$ claimed ("Its a bridge to nowhere if business is not redeveloped there"). The only proper use for the property, and for the public money spent on it, is as a public park on the Chief John Ross home and farm site, nearby graves of his father and child, and site of Chief John Ross's ferry and U. S. Post office he ran there:
No honest enlightened person would consider anything else there!
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serpentfoot
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Posted: Fri Jul 25th, 2008 02:26 pm |
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failedbelle wrote: Just read a story in the RNT that I didn't understand. Maybe some of you that understand how our county gov. works will read it and can explain it to me. It is the story about the Chamber of Commerce voting on something to do with the splost. What do they have to do with the splost????
The Chamber of Commerce, and big business in general RUN ROME GEORGIA, FLOYD COUNTY, GEORGIA, AND THE U. S GOVERNMENT. Too many of our public officials are "BOUGHT", they sell out to big money.
Often you see news stories of how the Chamber of Commerce representatives are headed to Atlanta, or Washington to lobby Rep. Gingrey and others.
And its not just with the SPLOST but also "our" COMPREHENSIVE PLAN" or 10 Year or 20 Year Plans. Sam Freeman, retired from Georgia Power and working with the Chamber of Commerce, and others, PLAN OUR FUTURE FOR US. If you attend any of their "public input opportunities", you will find that too often you do not get to address the group but you may talk individually to some few--THAT WAY YOUR INPUT IS LIMITED. Also they have Chamber folks summarizing "what was said" so to censor out or lessen non-Chamber public input.
Some years back Zell Miller was honest enough to say of his raising funds for election campaigns that it made him feel like an overworked street walker on a busy Saturday night.
The rest of us do not have so much influence $$$$ . When we do get an opportunity to have our say, our vote, too often we don't have much choice. The Chamber has talked to most all the candidates that have enough money to really campaign for a win.
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Posted: Fri Jul 25th, 2008 02:42 pm |
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failedbelle wrote: Just read a story in the RNT that I didn't understand. Maybe some of you that understand how our county gov. works will read it and can explain it to me. It is the story about the Chamber of Commerce voting on something to do with the splost. What do they have to do with the splost????
Belle it states that they vote to support it.
*The board of directors of the Greater Rome Chamber of Commerce voted unanimously Thursday to support the third phase of the special purpose, local option sales tax for education.*
That means that everywhere the chamber is allowed to post items they can post in support of the Splost. It is only their members giving permision basically to support it.
Edited to fix name lol Sorry old habit to use start of blog names.
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Posted: Fri Jul 25th, 2008 03:15 pm |
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The Chamber of Commerce also does some good. It is good that they support the SPLOST for Education. However too many Chamber Members also support ROBBING SCHOOL CHILDREN of TAD [Tax Allocation District] funds and the Nov. 4 election to amend the Georgia Constitution to allow such funds to be used for business redevelopments for PRIVATE GAIN, as David Do$$ and Tom Hackett had hoped to use in their W. 3rd St Redevelopment Plans--until the Georgia Supreme Court recently ruled that was illegal to divert funds reserved for education to the benefit of private business projects.
Economic development is good BUT those hoping to get richer should invest and gamble their own money, not steal it form taxpayers who would also like to do well, and especially NOT ROB SCHOOL CHILDREN OF THE FUNDS NEEDED FOR THEIR EDUCATION so they can survive and have successful careers.
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failedbelle
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Posted: Fri Jul 25th, 2008 03:26 pm |
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serpentfoot wrote: Economic development is good BUT those hoping to get richer should invest and gamble their own funds on their business not steal it from taxpayers and especially not rob school children of funds needed for the education they need to survive and have successful careers.
Amen Serpentfoot.
Deaglos if you use only part of my blog name, feel free to call me belle like my blog friends do instead of "failed" Thank you in advance.
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Posted: Tue Jul 29th, 2008 12:00 am |
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| It is good to see so many people involved in what is happening in our community.
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SassyGirl
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Posted: Wed Jul 30th, 2008 09:08 pm |
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| I agree.
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