http://www.thecrier.net/articles/2008/02/12/columnists/editorial/imolundsten.txt
What Ms Chambers did was embarrassing. Her expression of concern for the people of Dunwoody smacks of insincerity. I cannot recall if she has ever attended a DHA board meeting. No one I know has ever seen her at a DHA annual meeting where attendance is regularly 500 residents or more.
The questions she asked in front of the committee were done for political purposes. She had had the bills for months in their current form and not once did she ask any members of the Dunwoody Committee for clarification or explanations. She never raised these last-minute concerns to Rep. Millar who sits just two seats away from her on the house floor. To the best of my knowledge she never once attended any of the City of Dunwoody meetings to get more information. In fact, she sat with members of the committee and agreed in writing not to question the bill in front of the House committee. Instead she played dirty politics and sabotaged years of work for her own political gain. She decided that she knew best and would protect the people of Dunwoody from themselves. She knows better than I what taxes I would or would not be willing to pay. She would be the all-knowing mother superior, protecting her flock from the evils of free democratic choice. She, out of the goodness of her heart will protect the citizens of Dunwoody from choosing for themselves how they want to live and be governed.
She shot down your right to choose, not whether or not we should be a city. Whether you are for or against a city, her actions are insulting.
Ms Chambers then hides behind a press release that supports a “Township” of Dunwoody. She fails to mention that the township bills are nowhere near becoming law and mandate a tax increase to pay for what by law, IS another layer of government. How hypocritical can a person be?
The questions she asked in front of the committee were done for political purposes. She had had the bills for months in their current form and not once did she ask any members of the Dunwoody Committee for clarification or explanations. She never raised these last-minute concerns to Rep. Millar who sits just two seats away from her on the house floor. To the best of my knowledge she never once attended any of the City of Dunwoody meetings to get more information. In fact, she sat with members of the committee and agreed in writing not to question the bill in front of the House committee. Instead she played dirty politics and sabotaged years of work for her own political gain. She decided that she knew best and would protect the people of Dunwoody from themselves. She knows better than I what taxes I would or would not be willing to pay. She would be the all-knowing mother superior, protecting her flock from the evils of free democratic choice. She, out of the goodness of her heart will protect the citizens of Dunwoody from choosing for themselves how they want to live and be governed.
She shot down your right to choose, not whether or not we should be a city. Whether you are for or against a city, her actions are insulting.
Ms Chambers then hides behind a press release that supports a “Township” of Dunwoody. She fails to mention that the township bills are nowhere near becoming law and mandate a tax increase to pay for what by law, IS another layer of government. How hypocritical can a person be?
http://www.thecrier.net/articles/2008/02/12/letters/letters.txt
Another letter stated... Ms. Chambers is obviously a "prima donna" who has to be the center of attention. She never had any intention of voting "yes" on the measure, and feels a sense of power at being the one person to defeat the measure. Her vote comes as no surprise in an age in which voters are given no reason to trust politicians. She also added a new measure of distrust in that other politicians can no longer trust her. She lied to the voters and to fellow Republican legislators. It is a shame that she can't be added to Speaker Richardson's enemy list and stripped of all assignments in the legislature.
If you were unable to visit the 1/31 Governmental Affairs meeting, here is the official 2 hour video provided by the Georgia House of Representatives:
http://media.legis.ga.gov/hav/08/comm/gaff/gaff013108.wmv
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I watched the video of the hearings referenced. Just reinforces the reason for local government. After viewing I had an inspiration for a plan to confirm a budget surplus every year for Dunwoody.
The Plan. Get some sort of legislation passed that shifts the meal per-diem that some legislators get into municipalities. Just looking at the video of the panel, it doesn't look like either Mary Margaret Oliver or Jill Chambers miss to many trips to the trough with taxpayer dollars. With the grocery budgets of those two you could make a city solvent.
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