Clayton.Talk

By Mojo Mist

March 9, 2009 12:31 PM | Link to this

Raising taxes will be necessary for Clayton County if we are to improve. However, I would like to see the results of an audit first before agreeing to paying more taxes. Let’s get a baseline, know where we stand, and then make a decision. There has to be an accountability for what we now have first. Otherwise, more taxes into a broken system isn’t going to help.

By The Commentor

March 9, 2009 12:57 PM | Link to this

The Clayton County Board Of Commissioners do not need to cut any monies from the budgets of the Clayton County Police Department and the Clayton County Sheriff Department.

In fact, they need to add more monies to these two departments so that Clayton County can have more police officers on the street to combat the massive increase in the crime rate that has occured in Clayton County, caused mainly by the transplants in this county by the Section 8 families, youths, young adults, and criminally minded and crime committing adults from the numerous ghetto housing projects that they are closing quickly in the city of Atlanta, Georgia.

Also more monies given to the Clayton County Police Department are needed so they can increase the number of Code Enforcement Officers and assigned the increase in Code Enforcement Officers to site, fine, clean up, and jail if necessary the numerous, massive, glut and proliferation of dirty low-end businesses, strip malls, low-end retail malls, extended stay motels and hotels, check-cashing places, dirty low-end automobile repair shops, boarded-up businesses, dirty, trashed filled, cluttered, litter infested and overgrown grass and unkempt landscaping of the apaartment homes that line and are all throughout Tara Boulevard, Mount Zion Road, Garden Walk Boulevard, Flint River Road, Valley Hill Road, Old Dixie Highway, Frontage Road, Upper Riverdale Road, Battlecreek Road, Highway 85, Highway 138, Highway 139, Fayetteville Road, Highway 54, and many lesser known streets and roads throughout Clayton County.

Also, the Clayton County Sheriff Department need more monies so that they can hire more sheriff’s deputies so they can serve the over 17,000 outstanding warrants and arrest warrants in Clayton County.

I am for a property tax increase only if it will go to the Clayton County Police Department and the Clayton County Sheriff’s Department to put more police officers, code enforcement officers, and sherriff’s deputies on the streets of Clayton County to get this crime, gang, and drug infested, and filled county with its low class, ghetto, noncaring, Section 8 and apathetic people cleaned up with these subhuman people arrested, jailed, removed from the county, and these numerous dirty, cluttered, nasty, filthy, unclean, unsafe, unsanitary buildings, apartment homes, mobile home parks, and trailor home parks that mostly line and are up and down Tara Boulevard and behind the businesses of Tara Boulevard condemned, demolished, and destroyed.

By taylor

March 9, 2009 1:18 PM | Link to this

Instead of raising taxes to the working class I say abolish section 8 housing and welfare and make people either work or be homeless. Sorry if that sounds cruel but you would be suprised how many people could magically find a job and work if they had too.

By Use your brains

March 9, 2009 1:19 PM | Link to this

Who do you think should pay for the commisssioners to travel to DC? It is not a pleasure trip.They are traveling for the benifit to ft he taxpayers. You small time country people need to know that you must spend money to go to these conferences. We elected these people give them the resources to do what needs to be done to bring Clayton County into the present and take us to the future. Let me play the race card here. As long as the white commisssioners were spending taxpayers money recklessly - the media said nothing. hmm what is wrong with that picture.

By The Commentor

March 9, 2009 1:25 PM | Link to this

Also, the Clayton County Board Of Commissioners need to do a full complete Forsenic Audit of the finance department as well as on the Clayton County Government Departments getting the majority of the counties monies so that the citizens of Clayton County can see in a full transparent, clear, and detailed way where and how the counties money is spent.

A Forensic Audit is the only audit that is allowed in a court of law for criminal prosecution and jail time if the elected official or government worker performed any illegal activities such as fraud, stealing, embezzlement, deversion of monies inappropriately, or illegally, etc.

Until the Clayton County Board Of Commissioners do the Forensic Audit on all of Clayton County’s finances, the citizens of Clayton County will not know the true picture of the finances of Clayton County because no other lesser form of auditing such as the Operations Audit that the county is presently undergoing will uncover, show, or reveal any illegalities, wrongdoing, or criminal use of the finances of Clayton County like a Forensic Audit can.

By Ojooj

March 9, 2009 1:36 PM | Link to this

Elrin Bell is a joke in the Atlanta area, but somehow, the people of Clayton County began to take him seriously and even re-elected him. Follow the money. Follow the money. Eldrin takes care of his Atlanta friends like Michael Hightower who has received several consulting contracts from the Clayton County Commission. Yes, not just from Eldrin Bell, but from the whole Commission. In the recent hostile takeover move against Eldrin Bell, more money was spent on Alex Cohilas’s and Wade Starr’s salaries. The Washington, D. C. trip? Oh, you really did not think that the Chairman and the other commissioners (with the exception of Edmondson) would pass up a trip to profile and hobnob, did you? I understand that Alex Cohilas made the trip as well. Sacrifice for the citizens? Are you kidding us? More taxes? Heck no! H-ll to the Nah! My taxes have doubled in the last ten years. Maybe more! Eldrin Bell is not competent. And, he’s a meddler…like an old woman who always wants to put his nose in other people’s business. He is getting what he well-deserves now. Keep questioning and keep digging. Eldrin will flash that smile and keep engaging in double-talk. Clayton County taxpayers (of whom I am one) deserve better! But, where can we find better? Perhaps we should encourage Terry Baskins to run for Chairman. I believe that Mr. Baskins will do a good job. He is smart, honest, and fair. Not perfect, but someone who can show real leadership for the people of Clayton County.

By Why Not?

March 9, 2009 1:52 PM | Link to this

Is this the same Terry Baskin who has increased my property taxes despite my lowering property value?

He would make a great chairman! NOT!

But to answer your question. Yes! Taxes must be raised and they will!

By What?

March 9, 2009 2:00 PM | Link to this

I thought the Commission raised the taxes? Isn’t this the question posed in Ms. Allen’s article? Does the Tax Commissioner actually raise the taxes? I don’t think so. But, I could be wrong. I think that the Commission has to vote on raising taxes, and I, for one, am opposed to another tax increase. Right now, I pay well over 50% (close to 55 or 60) of my income to the various governments. Enough is enough!

By The Commentor

March 9, 2009 2:01 PM | Link to this

The present Tax Commissioner of Clayton County Mr. Terry Baskin would be a SUPERIOR choice for Chairman of the Clayton County Board Of Commissioners when the seat is up for election in 2012.

It is my opinion that Tax Commissioner Mr. Baskin would be a very intelligent, fair, honest, smart, strong, consensus builder, articulate, and personable Chairman of the Clayton County Board Of Commissioners and not like the present Chairman Eldrin A. Bell who in my opinion is dishonest, unethical, all about himself and how he can line and pad his pockets, noncaring, incompetent, crooked, corrupted, and only cares and looks out for his own best interests and not for the interests of the citizens of Clayton County.

By Maybe you should use your brains!

March 9, 2009 2:11 PM | Link to this

WHY in the world would Eldrin Bell need to travel to Washington DC to talk to Congressman David Scott, when Eldrin’s office is literally right around the corner from the David Scott’s office on Main Street? I don’t care what color you are, that’s a waste of taxpayer dollars.

Yes, taxes need to be raised and I think it is inevitable that they will be. But then again, if these commissioners raise taxes they might actually get some residents with brains (who actually use their brains) into this county who will vote their butts OUT of office and they can’t have that either so… guess time will tell.

By Ojooj

March 9, 2009 2:29 PM | Link to this

Hold the line on taxes! Dig in, men, and do battle against Bell & Company! The Interlopers will win if we grow faint…in well-doing. Hold the line, mem!

By The Commentor

March 9, 2009 2:50 PM | Link to this

It is the Clayton County Board Of Commissioners that determines whether or not the taxes that the citizens in Clayton County pay each year stays the same, is increased, or is decreased mainly by raising or decreasing the Property Taxes that citizens and businesses pay by either increasing or decreasing the Millage Rate.

The Tax Commissioner of Clayton County does not raise taxes in the county. Their job is to collect the taxes from the citizens of Clayton County and the businesses that are located here.

By District 5 resident

March 9, 2009 3:03 PM | Link to this

Now let me see if I understand things correctly, since I am a “country bumpkin”.

Several of our county commissioners need to travel to DC to talk to our state representatives regarding securing funding. This trip is going to cost at least $1500 A PERSON. So if I use all my fingers and toes to calculate the cost, then the cost for this little trip would be at least $6000 for ALL the commissioners to go to DC to see Rep. Scott. Why can’t they just walk down the street for FREE to his office the next time he is in town?

I am in favor of raising taxes if it goes to departments that actually need the money such as the police, sheriff, fire, and education. I am not in favor of raising taxes so that people can misuse it. Plus don’t raise my taxes until a forensic audit has been completed. If people are fraudulently spending tax payer’s money, then they should be arrested and charged and ordered to pay restitutions.

By WTF?

March 9, 2009 4:10 PM | Link to this

Damn that’s right we’re stuck with Eldrin til 2012!

While I think taxes should be raised to help clear some of the section 8 welfare trash out of Clayco, I don’t believe this group of commissioners are trustworthy enough to do what’s right. As someone else said, it’s in the commissioner’s best interests to keep the losers here so they keep their jobs.

By New taxes

March 9, 2009 4:20 PM | Link to this

JOHN TROTTER is why our taxes are so high

By truth hurts

March 9, 2009 4:30 PM | Link to this

Taxes are already going up. Property values have plummeted but the assessments have not reflected this.

My home is now worth half what it was. The assessment has not gone down, so I am already paying twice the taxes as I was.

By taylor

March 9, 2009 6:57 PM | Link to this

Sorry, I didnt mean that. well maybe a little.

By The plan all along

March 9, 2009 7:08 PM | Link to this

Like has been stated, the new higher taxes are all a result of John Trotter. Why isn’t this being reported? Why isn’t the media talking about the backroom deal that Trotter made with the mayor of Atlanta, and the Atlanta Olympic Committee to tear down the housing projects in Atlanta? Why isn’t anybody talking about the backroom deal that Trotter made with the Atlanta Housing Authority to give Section 8 vouchers to displaced housing project residents?

Everything that has, and is, going wrong with Clayton is a direct result of the actions of John Trotter, and how he conspired with the mayor of Atlanta, the Atlanta Olympic Committee, the Atlanta Housing Authority, and the federal government to change the population of Clayton County, all for his own purposes. It is all John Trotter’s fault. Everything.

By Hank, Jr.

March 9, 2009 8:19 PM | Link to this

Elrin: So raising the taxes on us again is the answer? I don’t think so. Y’all knew that you had a problem, and this problem has been building up for some time now. Y’all just kept on spending like it was going out of style. I presume that you think that government money is free money. No, it’s our money…the people’s money. You have made much ballyhoo about taken care of the taxpayers’ money in Clayton County. Now, let’s see what you are going to do now. Tell your friend to raise the cost of a lap dance at the Pink Poney. Raise the tax rates on the strip clubs in Clayton County. The Pink Pony Surcharge. Yeah, that’s right…The Pink Pony Surcharge. Zone Walt Stephens Road for Adult Entertainment. Let’s see how your friends at Lake Spivey-Lake Jodeco like this. Eldrin, you got us into a lot of this mess based on your own negligence. It’s you…Y - O - U. A country boy can survive…survive. Yeah!

By Rev billy bob whiskey

March 10, 2009 10:19 AM | Link to this

Hey Trotter - Whatsamatta. You gotta blog yourself to keep your name on this page. You really are not as important as you think. Your influence - waning tho it is - is merely confined to metro schoolteachers and your unnatural obsession with Clayton County. And those wild fantasies about Florida and Brazil that your inner personal demons keep coming up with. Ever think of taking up pottery or knitting.

By Oh please

March 10, 2009 11:07 AM | Link to this

billy bob - Don’t poke the hornet’s nest. If you ignore him, he’ll go away.

By mlk

March 10, 2009 11:17 AM | Link to this

what is going on in clayco? For once, I have to agree with that clown John Trotter. Those fool-hearted Board members selected Glen Brock to do the Supt search. He will be the next board attorney. That’s what he did in Fulton, Cobb and Dekalb. This is the same guy who threw the whole district under the bus by working behind the scenes to get accreditation yanked. The First search firm that brought thompson in promised to resume its search in january (at no additional charge) and select a new supt by June. Brock made that agreement for the board. Instead of telling the board that hazzard young and attea was obligated to do a FREE search, he charged the district pennies on the dollar to do a search. Why would he do that hmmmmm. I guess he will bill around 1.5 million dollars a year in fees after he selects the new supt

By Rev. Jimmy Jack Bourbon

March 10, 2009 11:24 AM | Link to this

bob: I don’t think that you are cut out for the ministry. In your trial sermon, everyone went to sleep, and the way you keep droning on and on about Trotter is putting people to sleep on this blog. You seem obsessed with him because he apparently will not allow you re-join MACE. (You ought to be happy with your GAE membership because “they do so many thinks for the kids,” as you are wont to say. Be happy with GAE. Maybe GAE will let someone like you take over; I know, however, that John Trotter does not suffer fools, even though he freely admits that to most people, he is “crazy.” He says that he has no problem with this label because “it helps business.”) Whining and crying and hollering Trotter’s name on your many blogs each day will not change Trotter’s mind. He simply thinks that you need to keep your pathology with GAE. Dr. Trotter told me even this morning that his mind has been made up for over a year about you. In fact, he stated: “I don’t have to put up with fools. It’s just that simple, Reverend.”

So, bob, you can cry and whine all day (perhaps while you should be instructing the little kiddies in DeKalb) but the door has been permanently closed for you at MACE. You can even keep posting a myriad of blogs, attempting to lead people into thinking that Trotter is posting them. (People already know Trotter’s style by now, and it ain’t caustic anonymous attacks. Trotter does not have to be anonymous; he can just ask one of his pastoral buddies or Earl to write something for him. Rather transparent. You can enjoy looking at MACE’s website (www.theteachersadvocate.com) and romanticizing about the time when you were a member of MACE, and you can think to yourself, “Well, I will always have King High.” Those must have been your halcyon days when he proudly told me that you would just drop Dr. Trotter’s name, and the administrators got visibly nervous. I can see, bob, how you would miss those day, but those days are over. Just patiently email the Uviserv Directors at GAE, and they may eventually return your email. Frustrating, isn’t it? Go to Gae.org, and enjoy their website now. I think that GAE has some stuff on there about the different Spelling Bees. This ought to turn on the teachers when their students are cursing them out. That’s just not MACE’s style. I know that you miss MACE, bob. Repeat after your good Reverend: “Hi, my name is bob, and I am a MACEaholic.”

Now, about raising our taxes to make the budget balance: Raising taxes will only further depress the local econony. Clayco businesses are closing up almost daily. Look around. With less jingle in our pockets, Clayco residents will have less and less to spend on local businesses. This is why the pastors and I try to always have our Monthly Ministerial Meetings (MMM) in Clayco restaurants. We don’t try to sneak on over to Henry or Fayette. We keep it real right here in Clayco. We are going to check out Luella’s on Tara today. City Buffet and Piccadilly in Riverdale are two of our favorites. And, how can we go wrong with steak wrapped in bacon at the Golden Corral? Chilli’s and Longhorn Steakhouse at Mt. Zion are our favorites on that side of the county. And, last but certainly not least, we love to meet at the different Dwarf House’s in Clayco. Gotta to run, my fellow Reprobates.

By ryan T.

March 10, 2009 11:50 AM | Link to this

I guess “Oh Please” is actually interacting with his students now. Is he the same fellow who writes ALL of the blogs under different names on GetSchooled or rather GetBored? He never wants to talk about the issue at hand; he only wants to talk about Coach. Coach Trotter taught and coached me almost thirty years ago at Jonesboro Jr. High. He was great!!!

By Rev billy bob

March 10, 2009 12:41 PM | Link to this

Rev Bourbon aka J Trotter It must gall you not to know who this is - and funny at the same time that you think you do. Please tell the name I would like to meet him and shake his hand. Beside you do suffer fools - for without the fools you would have no members in MACE. One hint - I am not affiliated with any teacher group, never have , never will. And I do not give sermons -as you are apt to do John - but I in a small way - seek to let the citizens see you as a matter of fact and truth. Now - why don’t both of us get off the blog and allow Kimberly a forum for public good to continue.

By truth hurts

March 10, 2009 1:04 PM | Link to this

For once can we stay on topic? This is an important issue.

By PHJ

March 10, 2009 2:19 PM | Link to this

By Use Your Brains, we didn’t have the money problems then that we have now. Put your race card away and address the real problem.

By EvolutioN

March 10, 2009 2:36 PM | Link to this

MS. MICHAEL B. KING aka “A Wanntbe Attorney ” for School Superintendent, since she can not WIN Law Cases so She has to Get A Pay Check from some where.

By Boot em all

March 10, 2009 2:41 PM | Link to this

THE ENTIRE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS NEED TO BE REPLACED

By Go Megan, Go Megan

March 11, 2009 8:40 AM | Link to this

Taxes, smaxes, who cares? Megan’s got the real issue covered; yet another story on the Jonesboro dance team. The seventh.

If Megan keeps writing stories this insightful, this important, and this vital to the community, she may be snatched up by a real newspaper like the Clayton News Daily.

By Just Look And See All Around In Clayton County

March 11, 2009 9:47 AM | Link to this

The reason that the quality of life in Clayton County is pathetic, awful, and terrible and why it is a home, haven, and refuse of the city of Atlanta, Georgia trash Section 8 population and all other low class uneducated, and crime committing Black, Hispanic, and even White people and also that neither the white or black elected officials can or will govern and raise property taxes to clean up this filthy, run-down county or make the tough decisions to get this county cleaned up.

Clayton County is a county that is severly damaged beyond repair and it is now a county that is a home, safe haven, refuge, and hiding place for all of the other counties’ losers, crime committing, center of all criminal enterprises of these crime committing people, Section 8 low class trash, violent prone, crime commiting people, illegal Hispanic alien population who now live in all of the trailor home parks that line Tara Boulevard, and other people who are a transcient population who tear up our county while they are temporarily here and do not care about others and just live off of the federal and state government on their Welfare, Food Stamps, and Section 8 housing vouchers.

Clayton County is indeed the absolute worst county to live in and its quality of life is that of a third world country and is no better than the nasty, decayed, and trash filled housing projects that they have torn down in Atlanta, Georgia.

By Mr Charlie

March 11, 2009 11:41 AM | Link to this

It is quite simple.

If 35% of the the mortgages are not being paid, then a substantial amount of taxes are not being collected.

Since the mortgages in default are probably the ones on the higher valued homes, then you can safely assume that higher than 35% of the property taxes are not being collected. Probably 45% of the projected property tax revenue will never collected.

So, the 65% that are paying their mortgages will have to make up for the 45% of taxes not being collected.

Kimberly, I would say the ones in Clayton who actually pay taxes can expect a substantial tax increase.

By I'm Confused

March 12, 2009 7:14 AM | Link to this

Mr. Charlie,

Are you talking about the Clayton County Tax issue, or are you eluding to President Obama’s wonderful “Tax Plan”? They both sound the same.

By NoMoreTaxTo Baskin

March 12, 2009 9:09 AM | Link to this

Terry Baskin for Chairman?????? *Now that is a joke! *That is the idiot who would not renew residents car tags without a the resident having a drivers license. He can’t even read state directives correctly according to the state. The drivers license requirement was wrong according to the state. In case the moron does not know it, a drivers license is not required to own a vehicle. I registered three vehicles in another county rather than put up with his crap. The other county appreciated the revenue! He is not qualified for the position he has now, let alone chairman.

By Not again

March 12, 2009 10:31 AM | Link to this

What you said you did, is Illegal? Do you think that makes you better that an honest working man as Mr Baskin.

By Ophelia

March 12, 2009 10:56 AM | Link to this

I like Mr. Baskins. He and his office staff have been very nice to me and my family.

By NoMoreTaxTo Baskin

March 12, 2009 11:30 AM | Link to this

Not again

Are you Mr Baskin? I hope not because you do not know state law very well. I own a home in the other county. I also own a business with multiple vehicles registered in this county. Those vehicles will also be registered elsewhere soon thanks to Mr Baskin’s policies. Bye, bye more ad valorem taxes. Wonder how much other tax revenue he drove off to other counties with his stupid requirement of bringing in a drivers licenses? What the county needs is someone with an “actual” brick and mortar college degree in that office next time. Not an online school grad.

By Men of short stature

March 12, 2009 12:03 PM | Link to this

Looks like Jeff Turner is taking a page straight out of Victor Hill’s law enforcement handbook with the way he’s dealing, or not dealing, with officers who defile their badge by harrassing recruits on the job.

By EvolutioN

March 12, 2009 7:26 PM | Link to this

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/clayton/stories/2009/03/12/claytonschoolking.html

I will be glad to VOTE for Ms. Michael B. King for ” DOG CATCHER ” here in Clayton County, since it really appears that Ms. Michael B. King will be needing this job since she will be out of the School Board Job and even as a ” WANTBE ATTORNEY ” that can not seem to ” WIN ANY LAW CASE ” I assume Ms. Michael B. KIng was sleeping in class when the Instructor covered that in the course, but that’s RIGHT YOU NEVER DID GRADUATE FROM A CREDITABLE LAW SCHOOL THAT LOSTED IT’S ACCREDITION.

Ms. Michael B. King Ma’am PLEASE CARRY YOU FAKE AND DUMB A$$ BACK TO FLA AND GO BACK TO BEING A PE TEACHER. All here is wondering why you got fired from that job, since you an that FAKE So Called Ex-Mayor of Riverdale Graham all game from Fla, just go back there a stay please.

By Jborodawg

March 13, 2009 7:36 AM | Link to this

No tax increases until an audit has been performed. No way I trust these present politicians with more money. EG, MILLIONS for a new HS in Riverdale; meanwhile, Morrow HS has 20-something outside trailers. EG, pave North Ave and two weeks later start digging it up. EG, Tara Blvd repaving; but there’s one-inch bumps when crossing just about every intersection. EG, any public works project several vehicles, trucks etc and several men standing around. EG, CCPS has twice as many administrators as needed; while para-pros get minimum wage and no raises this year. I could go on and on ad nauseam. While we’re at it, why have ad valorem taxes at all? Buy a car, it’s taxed. Buy gas, it’s taxed. Buy oil and a filter, it’s taxed. Buy tires, they’re REALLY taxed. State and local ad valorem taxes are an abomination applied in only a few states.

By Jborodawg

March 13, 2009 7:41 AM | Link to this

Forgot to mention, CC gets tens of millions of revenue from the airport, without lifting a finger. Where’s all that money go?!

By BB

March 13, 2009 11:45 AM | Link to this

If the county can suffer fools such as BOE member Michael King - it probably needs more taxes.

By EvolutioN

March 13, 2009 2:28 PM | Link to this

Your sure right BB on your post, the only way Clayton County,Clayton County School System and any other City here in the County can pay for defending these frivolous lawsuits that is always filed by School Board Member Ms. Michael B.King, is to raise taxes to pay for all these frivolous lawsuits.

I am wondering when Ms. Michael B. King is going to pay that court ordered sanction of $39,000 dollars in a past frivolous lawsuit she/he filed.

As a News Reporter for the AJC had reported a while back that Ms. Michael B. King had cost the City of Riverdale around 1 Million Dollars in filing frivolous lawsuits since 2003 to the present day.

By John Stewart

March 13, 2009 3:53 PM | Link to this

@ Jborodawg

Now you are asking the right questions.

History!!! Let the forensic audit begin and the skeletons falling from the closets!!!

By Good God, the ignorance?

March 13, 2009 5:15 PM | Link to this

Is the AJC education reporter who asked if Clayton has done enough to get accreditation back really that ignorant? And is anybody who seriously ponders the question for more than a nanosecond really that ignorant as well?

It’s not what the BOE has done, it’s what Elgart and Sonny have decided. The BOE could reenact the Jonesboro Dance team’s routine at amateur night at the Pink Pony, post it on YouTube, and make a DVD called BOE Gone Wild, and STILL, Elgart and Sonny are going to restore accreditation in some form so that this year’s seniors can graduate.

Does anybody really think that Sonny and Elgart would let their politically connected friends’ children graduate from an unaccredited school system this year?

People can’t possibily be that ignorant of what’s going on, can they?

By tc

March 16, 2009 7:48 AM | Link to this

Where is Trotter, or Dowell this morning? I’m waiting for my daily good laugh!

By KimWhit

March 16, 2009 10:25 AM | Link to this

Yes, taxes must be raised if only to make this county less affordable for the investors who rent to Section 8 project dwellers and antisocial trash. Raise property taxes through the roof for all non homesteading property owners so it will not be profitable to rent a house in Clayton county. Strictly limit investment property in the county. Report all of the landlords who are cheating the system by committing homestead exemption fraud. Make these landlords pay higher taxes to cover the negative impact that their low class tenants have had on our county.

By What!!

March 16, 2009 1:38 PM | Link to this

Time for a new blog subject !!

By Jborodawg

March 17, 2009 8:41 AM | Link to this

KimWhit sounds like dim wit; and filling in for Commentor and Just Look And See All Around In Clayton County; same rants about “trash; Sec 8 moving from the projects in Atlanta, low lifes, thieves…”, and on and on.

Without investors, many many houses would remain empty and run down; leading to blight in many neighborhoods and most of the county. Most investors spend money and fix up houses; providing clean, livable housing for those who can’t afford or don’t want to buy a house. The housing depression/banking failures have their roots in making loans to those who couldn’t afford it. A lot of people with adequate income would rather rent than buy.

I guess Kim hasn’t posted a new blog since March 9 because she’s fed up with the same rants, raves and off-topic comments. Sorry Kim. Don’t lose the faith.

By Jborodawg

March 17, 2009 8:44 AM | Link to this

Sorry, but I left out a fact: the Jonesboro Housing Authority has been closed to new applicants for Sec 8 housing for at least three years. Someone might give us the correct figure. Correct me if I’m wrong. Thanks.

By SynamonSays!

March 17, 2009 10:31 AM | Link to this

Kim, Yes Clayton County Commissioners must raise taxes and yes I would pay. Our quality of life is dependent upon it. The services would be compromised even more if taxes are not raised.

Thank you for allowing me to post the following information.

SynamonSays ….What do you say? www.newroadsvideo.com Friday, March 20th@8PM

Friday night’s episode is not for adults only. Teenagers should sign on as well for an evening of enlightenment with J. Tom Morgan, author, “Ignorance Is No Defense: The Teenagers Guide to Georgia Law.” J. Tom is a former Dekalb County District Attorney. He is committed to using his expertise to educate teenagers about Georgia Law. Adults and teenagers need to hear what Attorney Morgan has to say. Turn off the TV and go online.

Ignorance of the law is causing our teenagers to lose eligibility for financing of higher education, loss of job opportunities and the right to vote. Education, Employment and Enfranchisement (right to vote) are necessary for our youth to become contributing citizens in American society. These are rights that are being taken away as a result of lack of knowledge. We must educate ourselves and our teenagers about Georgia Law.

See you online www.newroadsvideo.com Friday night at 8pm. Remember the show is interactive and your questions and comments are welcome. SynamonSays!..What do you say?

By HLS

March 17, 2009 10:58 AM | Link to this

Synamon……Synamon……Synamon You have a skewed perception of rights. But your ending premise is so correct. Voting is a RIGHT to any legal US citizen. And every citizen should be proud to of this fact and show proof as they vote. Education is not a RIGHT - the access to education has become a RIGHT in this country. But too often - the old adage “you can send a fool to college but you can’t make him think” is also true at lower levels of education. Last but not least, employment is not a RIGHT - the access to a level playing field with no restrictions is our RIGHT. Everyone should understand that level playing field starts and ends with education. Never quit learning.

By Roger

March 17, 2009 11:14 AM | Link to this

Miss Synamon thank you for caring about the youth in Clayton. We have worked with J. Tom Morgan and he has a book that every teenager should read.

By The Commentor

March 17, 2009 1:22 PM | Link to this

TO JBORODAWG

Again, you show your complete stupidity, ignorance, and unintelligent knowledege on the true situation in Clayton County and the things that are going on and happening in this county right now.

The poster KimWhit articulate and wrote their views, opinions, and thoughts in a very intelligent, knowledgeable, concise, and professional way.

You, on the other hand need to not comment on others writings on this blog site and stick to improving your writing skills so you can write intelligent, knowledgeable, fact-filled, and concise postings.

Again, what I choose to write and post on the blog topic of the week is no business of yours and I strongly suggest that you keep your stupid, dumb, ignorant, immature, and unintelligent comments about the postings of others on this blog site to yourself and concentrate all of the little bit of brain power that you have and write thoughtful, insightful, knowledgeable, truthful, fact-filled postings and cease your commenting on other’s writings and postings that you obviously have no control over and can do nothing about.

By EvolutioN

March 17, 2009 2:08 PM | Link to this

Synamon, please take you fake a$$ racist crap somewhere else, and by the way your so called Show is lower than Jerry Springer at least his show is very well made in production as yours is nothing but a home made cheap of crap of a show. You have always been a one of the problems here in Clayton County when you made your made your close ties to the the Scott Clan with their son cry baby Victor Hill that always appears in wearing diapers.

So yes we all know what your about Synamon.