The “Don’t Argue with Me” Story

The “Don’t Argue with Me” Story from the Valdosta Tea Party Now for the story. Our County Commission Chairman, who is on our Regional Roundtable, told this to Nolen last month.

An assistant to the GDOT Director of Planning told our County Commission Chairman to put the value of $16 million for a certain road project. Our Commissioner, who is a contractor himself, replied that he had just built a road just like that for $7 million the year before, so the cost would certainly have only gone up to a little over $7 million at this time. The GDOT man said to our Commissioner, “DON’T ARGUE WITH ME.” Any comments? Diane Cox, Valdosta Tea Party, 2-19-12

So, GDOT projected costs have doubled in one year. I wonder what kind of fees they are collecting for the T-SPLOST projects ? Georgia Regional Association Centers, 16 of them, (think Propaganda) got $50,000 each to promote this boondoggle.

Many of us have questioned the posted project costs for Regional T-SPLOST, City grant assisted and GDOT transportation projects. The Dunwoody T-SPLOST calls for $12 million to re-do a 3.5 mile section of Mt Vernon Road. The Dunwoody Transportation Master Plan calls for $2.4 million to re-do the half mile long Dunwoody Village Parkway, using $1 million federal grant money. That’s $14.4 million for 4 miles of road. That’s $3.6 million per mile. My internet tells me that road milling and resurfacing costs $100 thousand per mile.

The federal cash transportation infusion (think bribe) Obama has showered on Georgia (for our silence and cooperation) has driven the cost of road re-dos up 4 times higher than they ever were. It also looks like GDOT is planning to use the T-SPLOST funds as a slush fund for other projects. How did this level of corruption get past the geniuses we have running the State of Georgia ? How did all of our City Council and County Commission Reps miss the fact that the Transportation Investment Act of 2010 (TIA) takes away all of their responsibility for roads and gives it to the GDOT ?

How is it that our oceans have been cooling for the past few years and nobody suggested that man made global warming is no longer a problem ? Why are unincorporated areas forming Cities immediately after the Transportation Investment Act of 2010 made City Councils powerless and irrelevant ?

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader