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GA Senate votes to reject legislation permitting Buckhead referendum on leaving Atlanta
Posted on 3/3/23 at 12:57 pm
Posted on 3/3/23 at 12:57 pm
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ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia senators torpedoed an effort to let the affluent Buckhead neighborhood secede from Atlanta on Thursday, with 10 Republicans breaking ranks and voting with Democrats to doom the measure after Gov. Brian Kemp’s administration questioned its legality and workability.
“If we jerk the heart out of the city of Atlanta, which is Buckhead, I know our capital city will die,” said Sen. Frank Ginn, a Danielsville Republican who chairs the committee that sent the bill to the full Senate.
The 33-23 vote to reject Senate Bill 114 could end the multiyear movement to create the proposed Buckhead City, driven by conservative residents who claimed the Democratic-run city wasn’t doing enough to fight crime and provide services, especially considering that Buckhead makes up less than 20% of the city’s population of 500,000, but about 40% of its tax revenue.
“These people are being ignored,” Sen. Randy Robertson, a Cataula Republican who sponsored the bill, said just before the bill was defeated. “And I think the response that we’ve seen has been just enough and then they hope it will go away.”
If the bill had succeeded, it would have set up a referendum on creating a new city that could have cast a harsh spotlight on efforts by a richer, majority-white neighborhood to divorce itself from the poorer, Blacker city at the heart of the Deep South’s largest urban area.
Posted on 3/3/23 at 12:58 pm to Wally Sparks
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10 Republicans breaking ranks and voting with Democrats to doom the measure after Gov. Brian Kemp’s administration questioned its legality and workability.
Kemp and his gang of cucks. Why does GA have so many soft Republicans?
Posted on 3/3/23 at 1:01 pm to Wally Sparks
10-15 years ago Buckhead was great, people loved it there
Now I can't find a reason anyone with the means to leave would even consider staying
Now I can't find a reason anyone with the means to leave would even consider staying
Posted on 3/3/23 at 1:05 pm to Wally Sparks
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10 Republicans breaking ranks and voting with Democrats
Check their bank accounts, no doubt they were paid handsomely for this
Posted on 3/3/23 at 1:10 pm to Wally Sparks
How dare “those people” have a say in how they are governed. The galll. The audacity.
Posted on 3/3/23 at 1:10 pm to Wally Sparks
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If the bill had succeeded, it would have set up a referendum on creating a new city that could have cast a harsh spotlight on efforts by a richer, majority-white neighborhood to divorce itself from the poorer, Blacker city at the heart of the Deep South’s largest urban area.
What a fricked up thing to say trying to paint this a negative.
Posted on 3/3/23 at 1:16 pm to Wally Sparks
Sounds just like St George, here in Baton Rouge
Posted on 3/3/23 at 1:21 pm to Wally Sparks
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“If we jerk the heart out of the city of Atlanta, which is Buckhead, I know our capital city will die,” said Sen. Frank Ginn, a Danielsville Republican who chairs the committee that sent the bill to the full Senate.
IOW … rob them of their right to govern themselves, since we’ve done such a shitty job of governing.
Posted on 3/3/23 at 1:29 pm to Wally Sparks
I probably would have been more for it if Buckhead city wasn’t spearheaded by a gay Yankee who has lived in the city for only a handful of years.
Posted on 3/3/23 at 1:45 pm to Wally Sparks
Why do they need the permission of the Georgia Senate to secede from Atlanta?
Posted on 3/3/23 at 1:59 pm to Wally Sparks
If the residents (property owners that pay taxes) of Buckhead are concerned with crime coming into their neighborhood what is to stop them from forming their own police force ?
Those citizens could meet somewhere and form a security force with dedicated funds, hire their own police people, buy needed equipment, and build a jail. Have a local judge swear them in and just enforce the laws on Georgia's books.
True they are already paying taxes to their county/city for police protection but it is evident that it is not up to high quality standards.
Those citizens could meet somewhere and form a security force with dedicated funds, hire their own police people, buy needed equipment, and build a jail. Have a local judge swear them in and just enforce the laws on Georgia's books.
True they are already paying taxes to their county/city for police protection but it is evident that it is not up to high quality standards.
Posted on 3/3/23 at 2:05 pm to Wally Sparks
They secede one way or another. The one that's left to them will leave another ghetto in what was once a thriving part of that declining city.
Posted on 3/3/23 at 2:10 pm to Wally Sparks
The only answer is like what happened in the early 80’s and covered by a multi part series in the Sunday Times Picayune…. “White Flight”. It’s only going to degrade like New Orleans
Posted on 3/3/23 at 2:27 pm to Wally Sparks
St. Augustine about to explode
Posted on 3/3/23 at 2:37 pm to Wally Sparks
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If we jerk the heart out of the city of Atlanta, which is Buckhead, I know our capital city will die
Probably better to keep Atlantans in Atlanta.
Posted on 3/3/23 at 2:39 pm to Wally Sparks
Buckhead votes pedocrate so they got what they voted for ! Stay with your crime and woke DAs
Posted on 3/3/23 at 2:40 pm to Wally Sparks
rEmEmBeR, aLl TrUmP's FaUlT fOr LoSiNg GeOrGiA sEnAtE sEaTs
Stop pissing down my back and telling me it is raining.
Stop pissing down my back and telling me it is raining.
Posted on 3/3/23 at 5:20 pm to Wally Sparks
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GA Senate votes to reject legislation permitting Buckhead referendum on leaving Atlanta
What a bunch of horseshite especially since Buckhead wasn't part of Atlanta's city limit until the 50's when it was "annexed" by the city in a very shady legislative vote.
[quote]20% of the city’s population of 500,000, but about 40% of its tax revenue[/quote]
I highly doubt this number...it's at least
60%.
This post was edited on 3/3/23 at 5:23 pm
Posted on 3/3/23 at 5:48 pm to Wally Sparks
If Atlanta will die without Buckhead, maybe they need to get their shite together. Cause Buckhead apparently doesn’t need them.
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