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re: GA Senate votes to reject legislation permitting Buckhead referendum on leaving Atlanta

Posted on 3/3/23 at 2:40 pm to
Posted by rhar61
Member since Nov 2022
5109 posts
Posted on 3/3/23 at 2:40 pm to
rEmEmBeR, aLl TrUmP's FaUlT fOr LoSiNg GeOrGiA sEnAtE sEaTs

Stop pissing down my back and telling me it is raining.
Posted by NPComb
Member since Jan 2019
27492 posts
Posted on 3/3/23 at 2:40 pm to
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Sounds just like St George, here in Baton Rouge


Very similar. We even voted for this and are held hostage by 2 woke women.
Posted by doubleb
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2006
36243 posts
Posted on 3/3/23 at 3:21 pm to
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Sounds just like St George, here in Baton Rouge


There’s a big difference though. SG has never been incorporated. SG is unincorporated EBR Parish. It has never been part of BR.

Furthermore there are three other cities incorporated in EBR Parish besides Baton Rouge.
Posted by RD Dawg
Atlanta
Member since Sep 2012
27305 posts
Posted on 3/3/23 at 5:20 pm to
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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 by Wally Sparks
Atlanta
Member since Feb 2013
29277 posts
Posted on 3/3/23 at 5:45 pm to
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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.


Residents still had to approve it in a referendum (which they did)
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
96506 posts
Posted on 3/3/23 at 5:48 pm to
If Atlanta will die without Buckhead, maybe they need to get their shite together. Cause Buckhead apparently doesn’t need them.
Posted by BengalOnTheBay
Member since Aug 2022
3855 posts
Posted on 3/3/23 at 6:08 pm to
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GA Senate votes to reject legislation permitting Buckhead referendum on leaving Atlanta


Good. frick those suburban whiteys that gave us Biden and two Dem senators.
Posted by Madking
Member since Apr 2016
48068 posts
Posted on 3/3/23 at 6:33 pm to
If we gave the left the entire planet and all moved to the moon they’d follow us. They’re parasites
This post was edited on 3/3/23 at 6:33 pm
Posted by Tchefuncte Tiger
Bat'n Rudge
Member since Oct 2004
57386 posts
Posted on 3/3/23 at 6:53 pm to
Nothing like St. George. Buckhead is inside the city limits of Atlanta. St. George is an unincorporated area of East Baton Rouge Parish. Buckhead literally wants to secede.
Posted by Dex Morgan
Member since Nov 2022
1351 posts
Posted on 3/3/23 at 7:14 pm to
The awful white people need to leave. Then when the Kangs get their reparations check, they can take over and turn it into Little Wakanda.
Posted by Jack Carter
Member since Sep 2018
10530 posts
Posted on 3/3/23 at 7:16 pm to
Muh democracy
Posted by Strannix
District 11
Member since Dec 2012
49048 posts
Posted on 3/3/23 at 7:16 pm to
GA is a deep blue state now.
Posted by Bayou Warrior 64
Member since Feb 2021
321 posts
Posted on 3/3/23 at 7:48 pm to

Why does the USA have so many damned soft Repubs???
Posted by Fububutsy
Lake Charles, LA
Member since Jan 2007
3958 posts
Posted on 3/3/23 at 7:57 pm to
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What a fricked up thing to say trying to paint this a negative


Can’t very well say it correctly that they want to get away from the racial jungle that Joe Biden talked about all those years ago.
Posted by jackamo3300
New Orleans
Member since Apr 2004
2901 posts
Posted on 3/3/23 at 8:05 pm to
Some similarities to Orleans, with a definite pattern emerging.

Although they'd never admit it publicly, the St. Charles Avenue gang who've run this city since its founding by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville must've wondered more than a few times about separating themselves from Orleans since they are now surrounded and are paying those giant property taxes to keep the gravy train going for this experiment in futility - all at the continuing peril of their women and children.

The irony is not lost on them that they were the ones who gave enough support to Dutch Morial over Joe DiRosa to start the slide you see now.

Also, sometime ago, the Lakefront floated the possibility of seceding from the city, but were shot down.

Again, they weren't about to give up those property taxes.

Exorbitant, three-digit water bills and the federal government are just not enough to keep it going.

Prior to Katrina, LakeView by itself was footing over 40 percent of the property taxes to keep it going.

Should we expect more attempts like this among more and more of the big cities across the nation.

Is this just the beginning of the "new medievalism" we're hearing about.

Posted by RCDfan1950
United States
Member since Feb 2007
35027 posts
Posted on 3/3/23 at 8:15 pm to
Well, now that the residents of Buckhead see that there is no hope in staying in place, there will be a rush to the door. Either that, or arm themselves to the teeth, develop 'neighborhood watch' strategies and go down swinging. I'll bet the price of their homes just took a beating.
Posted by AggieHank86
Texas
Member since Sep 2013
42941 posts
Posted on 3/3/23 at 8:15 pm to
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This post was edited on 3/3/23 at 8:30 pm
Posted by Pettifogger
Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
Member since Feb 2012
79337 posts
Posted on 3/3/23 at 8:23 pm to
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Well, now that the residents of Buckhead see that there is no hope in staying in place, there will be a rush to the door. Either that, or arm themselves to the teeth, develop 'neighborhood watch' strategies and go down swinging. I'll bet the price of their homes just took a beating.



Doubt any of that really.

The referendum wouldn't have passed most likely. The crime wave in Buckhead over the last 2 years has done nothing to suppress values (they're way up) and none of that was premised on Buckhead becoming a city. I think those who wanted to leave (like me) already have for the most part. Of course, plenty of young families seeking friendlier confines for family life will continue to move, but that happened before COVID/Crime wave too.

Every Buckhead neighborhood already has neighborhood watch and most have part or full time security from off duty cops. They're used to this stuff.

The reality is that Buckhead "conservatives" - like the well heeled conservatives in places like Highland Park, etc. tend to be less resolute in their values because of the circles they run in. They're establishment Rs because being too conservative is bad for business.
Posted by td01241
Savannah
Member since Nov 2012
22907 posts
Posted on 3/3/23 at 8:24 pm to
Used to get fricked up in my mid twenties in buckhead when i lived in Woodstock. Good times. You couldnt pay me to go there now for half an hour during the day. These people will be leaving one way or another no matter what you decide to call it or phrase it as. Atlanta minorities better start injecting more into the tax pool or someone will come door to door to re appropriate their obama phone.
Posted by jackamo3300
New Orleans
Member since Apr 2004
2901 posts
Posted on 3/3/23 at 8:37 pm to
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Either that, or arm themselves to the teeth, develop 'neighborhood watch' strategies and go down swinging. I'll bet the price of their homes just took a beating.


We have all that in place - and more - including armed patrols, but still experienced an attempted home invasion just prior to the appearance of Corona.

On a Saturday night around 9 o'clock.

It was a coordinated attack with 3 homes being hit at the same time.

Before the door buckled, the alarms went off around the neighborhood and they gave up their effort.

The inconvenient truth now is that you can't rely on cops and other security measures for anything.

It has to be done ourselves, individually.


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