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DEL.ICIO.USSnellville Pettiness
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Our good friends in Snellville are at it again.
This time, the issue stems from a flier for the Snellville Commerce Club — a private civic organization - that was placed in a recent mailing of business license renewals sent out by City Hall.
Mayor Pro Tem Warren Auld took issue with the fliers being placed in the mailings, saying they made it look like the organization is a city function. Councilwoman Kelly Kautz found the inserts inappropriate, too.
City Manager Russell Treadway approved the fliers’ inclusion on the grounds that the Commerce Club is the closest thing to a town chamber of commerce. Make sense to me. Moreover, the civic group is to pick up the additional mailing costs.
Then again, this is Snellville, home to a city government that has fast become the laughing stock of Gwinnett County. Snits and tension run high.
If you’re ever in the mood for a laugh, please attend a Snellville council meeting. Decorum has long left the building.
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By BW
January 22, 2009 12:09 PM | Link to this
Just wait till the lawsuit from the crematory hits the courts, they’ll be so much finger pointing someone may get an eye poked out. With all the i’s dotted and all the t’s crossed and approval given, the owner spends hunhreds of thousands of dollars to refit the place only to be told they changed their minds.
Snellville will loose a fortune fighting in court and in the end will be awarded with the biggest pizza oven in the county.
What a circus.
By Jan Of Snellville
January 22, 2009 12:53 PM | Link to this
Let me be clear - I am from Snellville, been here my whole life - almost 60 years and I did NOT vote for that clown of a mayor we have now!!!!
It is totally embarassing!!!!!!
By LT5000
January 22, 2009 1:26 PM | Link to this
Thank God Blubbering Badie wrote about this ever important issue.
We didn’t want to have to hear about the deportations of Illegal Immigrants from the Gwinnett County Detention Center.
Or the two recent human trafficking cases in Norcross.
Especially since one just recently poisoned his kid with meth.
Blubbering Badie always here to address the important issues. With such a fine journalist, I can’t understand why the AJC is losing $1 million per day. It defies logic.
LT5000
By Patrick
January 22, 2009 2:47 PM | Link to this
It seems to me that the City of Snellville Has been in need of some adult supervision for some time now.
By JAMES MCCOY
January 22, 2009 2:54 PM | Link to this
Whatever happen to separation of business from government?The answer lies in the fact the public fails to hold these officials accountable.
By Lee
January 23, 2009 8:54 AM | Link to this
I agree with the Mayor Pro Tem, inclusion of fliers from a civic organization in a government mailing is inappropriate. Where do you draw the line on which civic club is worthy of this taxpayer subsidy and which is not? Best not to open that Pandora’s Box in the first place.
By jim d
January 23, 2009 11:46 AM | Link to this
Indeed the fine folks in snellville have once again proven that evolution is just theory.
By Mark
January 23, 2009 12:54 PM | Link to this
Snellville used to be a nice city in which to live when I bought my first house here. Then the blacks and hispanics trickled in. Now it’s no better than than Doraville.
By Michael H. Smith
January 23, 2009 2:05 PM | Link to this
Not so sure of that jim d, the citizens of Snellville have displayed a very laudable tenacious adaptability to the adversities of their political environment. As a species I’m finding them quite remarkable, what a temerity to survive, indeed.
By LT5000
January 23, 2009 3:42 PM | Link to this
Mark,
There’s always Norcross.
LT5000
By Texan Interrupted.
January 24, 2009 8:47 AM | Link to this
“The appearance of impropriety is often exactly what meets the eye. ” (Plato, after he walked in on his wife and her 14 slaves).
By jim d
January 26, 2009 11:40 AM | Link to this
Mr. Smith,
I’m pretty confident it is the case since it was the citizens of Snellville who elected their leadership in the first place.
I do however wish them well.