TSPLOST Tax fight heats up
Mike Lowry from Transportation Leadership Coalition and Eldrin Bell, Clayton County Commissions square off in Clayton County. Coverage provided by WSBTV http://www.wsbtv.com/videos/news/tsplost-tax-fight-heats-up/vcSzp/
Do You Feel Pressured to Support TSPLOST?
Do You Feel Pressured to Support TSPLOST? Local municipalities, chambers of commerce and even businesses are mobilizing to get voters to the polls in support of TSLOST on July 31. How to you feel about this effort? It’s no secret that most municipalities are urging a “yes” vote on TSPLOST. Without it, local governments are
Republican Candidates take different stances on TSPLOST
Forum: Westmoreland, Flanegan take different stances on TSPLOST By W. WINSTON SKINNER winston@newnan.com U.S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland and Chip Flanegan, one of his Republican challengers, highlighted their positions at a Saturday forum — including sharp differences on the upcoming TSPLOST vote. “I didn’t really come here to talk about TSPLOST,” Westmoreland said at the forum
Big Companies Strong-arming Employees
Metro Atlanta firms as voter turnout machines 9:00 am June 23, 2012, by jgalloway “You may not know it yet, but if you work for a large company in metro Atlanta, you’re about to become part of one of the most unusual political campaigns this state has ever seen. Most battles for votes are conducted
Is transportation tax ballot question unbiased?
Brian Kemp wouldn’t go on camera. Governor Deal denies his own actions.
500 Good Reasons To Trust The T-SPLOST (Dripping in Sarcasm)
500 Good Reasons To Trust The T-SPLOST June 22, 2012 10:00 am by Mike Hassinger “Some of you have expressed opposition to the upcoming T-SPLOST because you don’t believe that raising sales taxes by 1 percent will solve metro Atlanta’s traffic problems. Well, you doubters need to look at the return on investment the folks
T-SPLOST ballot language misleading
Jay Bookman T-SPLOST ballot language misleading June 22, 2012 “However, even those high stakes don’t justify the unfair description that voters will see printed on the July ballot, which claims that the proposal “provides for local transportation projects to create jobs and reduce traffic congestion with citizen oversight.” Opponents of the transportation tax, including the
Key groups join the Transportation Leadership Coalition in its opposition to the preamble of the T-SPLOST ballot question.
From Georgia Pundit (gapundit.com), June 22, 2012 The Atlanta Tea Party and Georgia Conservatives in Action joined the Transportation Leadership Coalition in its opposition to the preamble of the T-SPLOST ballot question. The groups called on the governor, attorney general and secretary of state to remove the offending language, but stopped short of saying if they
Transportation sales tax opponents object to wording of ballot question
Political Insider: Transportation sales tax opponents object to wording of ballot question The Atlanta Journal Constitution sent reporter Aaron Gould Sheinin to Thursday’s press conference a the state Capitol held by the Transportation Leadership Coalition and other opponents to the transportation sales tax. While Sheinin didn’t publish a piece that we’ve seen, Jim Galloway offers
Grievances Dominate TSPLOST Town Hall in Brookhaven
WABE News Sunday, June 17, 2012 By: Jonathan Shapiro “At the town hall, Mike Lowry of Roswell said the project list was skewed towards MARTA and public transit at the expense of much needed road-funding. “People come here and give up promotions in order to stay here and they don’t do that because of MARTA
