Gwinnett.talk

By Brenda

November 8, 2006 12:44 AM | Link to this

The uppers: GA bucks the national trend with a Republican Gov, Lt. Gov and a Republican led House.

Perdue’s “Sonny Do List” will get done. Cagle makes history as the first Republican Lt. Gov in GA history.

House 106th’s Melvin Everson (R)(the 1st black Republican since reconstruction) trounced his democratic opponent.

Grayson, GA passed Econ 101 and Liquor By the Drink. They also recognize the difference in a “Juke Joint” and a “sit down restaurant/fern bar”.

The downers: GA voters would rather keep an aging dinosaur as Agriculture Commissioner instead of moving into the 21st Century with Gary Black.

Dist. 4 returns Kevin Kenerly to a 4th term. Our apologies to the Gwinnett Commission.

Snellville, GA failed Econ 101 and has no idea what “sit down restaurant/fern bar” is therefore will lose the “sit down restaurant/fern bars” to Grayson and Gwinnett County.

Okay, the Uppers outweigh the Downers. Grayson, is there room for two more citizens?

By LB

November 8, 2006 07:23 AM | Link to this

I agree with Brenda on Gary Black. We really needed a new person. Black would have been an excellent Agricultural Commissioner.

Otherwise, the party of the person in office doesn’t matter that much to me as long as they are representing me. I am interested to see how Gwinnett is going to handle the seriously large population of illegals. Hopefully this issue won’t die with the new people in office.

By Deborah

November 8, 2006 08:27 AM | Link to this

Gwinnett County and all of Georgia needs to wake up! People have been doing nothing but complaining for years about too much development in Gwinnett County, our GA school system being the worst in the nation, our infrastructure being unable to handle the growth of this area, taxing inequalities, and now illegal immigration - so what do we do - reelect the yahoos who put us in this position in the first place, and then add a few more “good old boys” to the state offices to add to the disaster. Why is Georgia the one state that went in the opposite direction of most of the rest of the country!?!?

By Andrew

November 8, 2006 08:44 AM | Link to this

I guess Georgia would like to give up its wildlife areas and hunting tradition to clogged roads and subdivisions.

By fed up

November 8, 2006 08:47 AM | Link to this

I went to my polling place, showed a government issued employee id and it was refused. They insisted I give them my drivers license, so they could see my date of birth. I called the gwinnett elections office when I got home and they told me there wasn’t anything they could do, talk to the secretary of state. Someone from there took my complaint. Bottom line: no one offered to contact this poll and stop this. There is a list posted of what you could give, including a utility bill. They need to get this right. No telling what else they do wrong.

By Paulie

November 8, 2006 10:17 AM | Link to this

There was some good news for Gwinnett last evening, with the defeat of the “Redevelopment Powers Law.” The passage of this vaguely worded proposal would have effectively handed over the keys to the county to developers, and if it hadn’t worked out taxpayer wallets would have been pried open to cover their losses.

Perhaps now we can move on to assemble a real, concrete, clearly defined redevelopment plan, properly communicate it to the citizenry and get on with the business of the rebuilding (of both the public trust and some of the rotting infrastructure) of Gwinnett.

Note to “fed up” - they had no interest in your date of birth (it’s plastered all over public records already). If indeed your ridiculous misplaced vanity was more important to you than your responsibility to vote, you probably should not be voting anyway.

By fed up

November 8, 2006 10:33 AM | Link to this

Dear Paulie: It has nothing to do with vanity. It is their rules, if they can’t follow them, what else do they do. PS: I was in a damn uniform with an ID around my neck. Its called accountability in government you a*

By Jorge'

November 8, 2006 01:22 PM | Link to this

You done a hell of a job Rummy.

By James

November 8, 2006 06:35 PM | Link to this

Governor: I’m glad to see Sonny back for another four years. Taylor lacked vision for the state and tried to hide behind senseless ethics comlaints. You don’t win an election that way.

Lt. Govenor: Casey Cagle is exactly what I don’t want the rest of the country to think of when they think of Georgia. He is personally not a great choice and it ruins the balance of power, giving too much control to one party in the dome.

SPLOST: Thank God it passed. Gwinnett needs the money if it’s going to maintain it’s status as one of the few good school systems in this state.

Redevelopment Powers Law: I’m really saddened that anyone voted no for this. It could have truly made the difference in transforming the blighted areas of Gwinnett back into nice places to live.

Kenerly: I would be embarrased to live in the 4th Commission District because of Kevin. If I lived there I would have written in Jody Rosser for the job. She was a better candidate who was not in bed with the developers.

Agriculture Commissioner: Change needed to be made and it wasn’t. I was honestly dissapointed.

By GaRealtor

November 8, 2006 11:11 PM | Link to this

I am relieved that the Good Citizens of Loganville thwarted an attempt by Mike Jones- a former “old town” mayor to gain control of the city. With a record turnout at the Polls. The I-Team led by Tim Barron won and will continue for another two years.

By BobG

November 9, 2006 09:34 AM | Link to this

With proper public oversight, the Redevelopment Powers Law would have given the Commission a tool to focus revitalization efforts on Gwinnett’s blighted areas. Looking at it another way, it is a structure within which the Commission would have had to operate. If sweetheart deals for developers is your concern, Paulie, you should have voted YES on this one.

My only concern was the fact that, because the bonds sold to generate up front cash are so speculative for investors, the payback rates are often outrageous. But then, the law requires that the cost be weighed, ahead of time, and subjected to public scrutiny.

Ignorance… and possibly the fact that the bad word (re)”development” was in the text of the ballot issue… defeated this one.

By Ken P

November 9, 2006 11:11 AM | Link to this

When a potential voter asked if he was at the Pinckneyville Z precinct, the poll worker told him “No, this is Jones Bridge Park, not Pinckneyville Park”. Luckily I overheard and told them both that he was, indeed, at the correct place. I wonder how many people were turned away because the poll workers did not know where they were!

By Bruce Wilcox

November 9, 2006 11:37 AM | Link to this

When you vote RED, bucking the national trend and being proud of it, kind of explains why we are forty-sixth in education.

The Democratic ‘Tax and Spend’ is far better than the Republican ‘Spend and Charge’. Talk about responsibilty, Republicans would rather let someone else pay for their screw-ups.

And in Gwinnett they cry about wanting change and elect the same people over and over again.