Bill sent me an email asking me what I thought of Time Magazine naming Atlanta's mayor, Shirley Franklin, as one of the top five mayors in the country. Hmmm. Let me see. Compared to Bill Campbell, our last mayor, who was incredibly corrupt (Of course me saying Bill Campbell was corrupt is racist. That's his defense. The people out to get him are all racists.) and who left the city treasury in a terrible shape, even Cynthia McCommie would look good. She's an idiot. She's not a crook like Bill Campbell.
I will hand it to Shirley. She has done more good than bad. She was left with a large deficit by the above mentioned Bill Campbell. She was forced to raise taxes. She did cut the city budget but not enough.
She was the first mayor to finally address Atlanta's sewer system. All the other previous mayors, Maynard Jackson, Andrew Young, Maynard again, and Bill Campbell let the problem fester. The gummint was fining the city on a daily basis for dumping so much untreated sewage into the Chattahoochee River.
Set the Wayback Machine Sherman. Way back when, a solution was proposed to drill a tunnel to transfer waste from one end of Atlanta to a treatment center on the other end. There was just one thing wrong. It was a racist tunnel. It was going to be underneath black neighborhoods. That's why it was never built. Remember, in Atlanta, all politics is racial.
They have finally started drilling a politically correct tunnel. It is running under white neighborhoods. Taxes have been raised to support the project. It could have been done a lot cheaper 20 years ago. Shirley is trying to get the state to pay for part of it.
I really only have two things to say against Shirley. She is trying to mandate a $10.50 per hour minimum wage for companies wanting city contracts. The other thing is the suit the city filed against Druid Hills Country Club because they will not allow club privileges to gay partners.
Shirley is doing a pretty fair job as mayor. She's a damn site better than Bill Campbell.
I don't get confused easily, but right now I'm confused... how is drilling a tunnel racist?
Posted by: dJake on April 19, 2005 03:00 AMdJake - Good question. Maybe you should ask the black leaders of Atlanta who stopped the drilling of a tunnel under black neighborhoods because it would be racist.
Posted by: denny on April 19, 2005 02:16 PMWhile you're at it ask those same Judas Goat poverty pimps how much money they squeezed out of black people with their race baiting. They see racism in a tunnel but not in having an admitted Ku Klux Klansman in the US Senate, seeing as how he's a good Slaveocrat, er, I mean Democrat. I wonder how much money and what perks they have gotten for leading the black community to follow the party of Lester Maddox, George Wallace and Bull Connor. The party that enacted every single segregation law when they had a total monopoly of Southern political offices. These are the questions I'd like asked and answered. I'd also like to hear from NAACP as to why they made such a big stink about the confederate flag being on top of the SC capitol building but endorced for re-election the man who put it there, former Governor and former Senator Fritz Hollings.
Posted by: Ric on April 19, 2005 08:18 PMFulton County is screwed. That's not knew information though. Atlanta and Fulton County have resembled downtown Beirut for some time now. I police just west of there in Douglas County. Go west young man! All the way to Tallapoosa, or beyond. When's Freaknick? Gotta get my freak on.
Posted by: J. Cook on April 21, 2005 10:27 PM