Ballot question shows lawmakers’ odd logic
It is inconceivable to me that ethics is on the ballot. (“GOP puts ethics on the ballot,” News, May 19).
We spend months listening to legislature wannabes assuring me that they are people of integrity and so believing them, we elect them. And after a year or two in office, they have the temerity to come back to us and ask us if we really want them to be ethical. What a crazy mixed up sense of logic.
MADELINE KORFF, CANTON
‘Access’ not the issue, responsibility is
It never ceases to amaze me that the folks on the left will twist words to fool the blindly led masses. (“A lot of folks will wind up on wrong side of history,” Opinion, May 17.) Leonard Pitts says “Who would have thought that in 2012, we would be debating a woman’s access to contraception?” Doesn’t Mr. Pitts fall down from all his spinning?
Nobody is debating a woman’s access to contraception; we are debating who is going to pay for it. It is the woman’s responsibility to buy her own contraception — she has “access” galore.
It’s bad enough that Christians’ tax money goes toward abortion and other government atrocities. Moral degradation, in all forms, is not “progress” regardless of the wildly spinning speech of the Left.
MEG QUIGLEY, MARIETTA
Sandy Springs did not ‘woo’ Cobb business
The recent column on the implied “seduction” of a Cobb business to Sandy Springs omits key details, as has much of the AJC’s recent coverage of government-initiated business incentives. (“Is it right to seduce neighbor industry?” Metro, May 13).
The column suggests that Sandy Springs set sight on a Cobb-based business, and then wooed them across the river. This rarely happens and did not in this instance.
When businesses relocate, they examine many options, not just locations near their current operations. Several communities also pursued this company. It took considerable effort to keep it in metro Atlanta.
Cobb competed to keep it there, yet no Cobb locations proved suitable. Sandy Springs, with cooperation from the Development Authority of Fulton County, did the region a great service by retaining a high-quality company with its jobs and tax base.
By restricting intrastate incentives, you rob the region of a crucial tool for helping companies expand and remain profitable while remaining in the region. Without these tools, we will lose existing, growing companies to more welcoming areas.
ROBERT J. “BOB” SHAW, CHAIRMAN
DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF FULTON COUNTY
