Propaganda Overkill on T-SPLOST

Massive Multi-Million Dollar Propaganda Campaign

Despite the fact that espousing REGIONALISM is treason and the fact that T-SPLOST is stupid, the “establishment is for it. The T-SPLOST is so bad, the politicians needed everybody to sign up to support a massive campaign.

The list of companies donating and supporting to the T-SPLOST propaganda campaign is astounding and includes:

Cox Enterprises; Georgia Association of Realtors; Georgia Power Company; The Coca-Cola Company; Yancey Bros. Co.; AT&T; C. W. Matthews Contracting Co.; Comcast; Cousins Properties Incorporated; Delta Air Lines, Inc.; Genuine Parts; ICE; Jamestown; Parsons Brinkerhoff; Post Apartment Homes;

RockTenn; Siemens; SunTrust Banks, Inc.; The Home Depot; Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.; UPS; Vulcan Materials Company; AGL Resources; Caterpillar; Duke Realty; General Electric; Georgia Hwy Contractors Assn.; Holder Construction Company; Regions Am Council of Engineering Cos. of GA; Alston & Bird LLP;

CH2M Hill, Inc.; Enterprise Holdings; Gables Limited Partnership; Georgia Crown Distributing Co.; Global Payments Inc.; Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc.; King & Spalding LLP; McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP; Metro Atlanta Chamber; National Distributing Company;

PwC; Stantec Consulting Services, Inc.; Stephens Rock & Dirt; Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP; Troutman Sanders LLP; United Distributors, Inc.; Wolverton & Associates; AMLI Development Company, LLC; ARCADIS; Atlanta Apartment Association; Atlanta Realtors PAC; Carter Coro Realty Advisors LLC;

Eagle Rock Distributing Company; Edwards-Pitman Environmental; Goddard Investment Group; Greenberg Traurig Gresham, Smith & Partners; H.J. Russell & Co.; Heath & Lineback Engineers, Inc.; Highwoods Properties; KCI Technologies, Inc.; Kimley-Horn & Assoc., Inc.; Robert & Laura LaChapelle; Lafarge North America; NAIOP Georgia; Noble Investment Group; Parkway Realty Services; Regent Partners; Selig Enterprises; Shaw Environmental & Infrastructure Group; Skanska;

Stone Mountain Industrial Park; The Atkins North American Holdings Corp. PAC; Transwestern; Weeks-Robinson Properties; AGCO; BPAC-Builders Political Action Cmte; Cobb Association of Realtors; Deloitte; Dow Lohnes PLLC; Equifax Inc.; Foley Products Company; Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce; Hatch Mott McDonald; LPA/Michael Baker Jr. Inc.; McGee Partners; NGI Investments North American Properties – Atlanta, Ltd.; Nova Engineering & Environmental, LLC; STV/ Ralph Whitehead Associates.

The stated goals of T-SPLOST, to fix our road congestion, so businesses will come here, won’t happen if we squander our $6.14 billion in future tax dollars on this politically contrived boondoggle. Many of these companies stand to receive some of our $6.14 billion if this passes, the rest are uninformed hapless camp-followers. They don’t care that true road congestion mitigation will come only if we choose not to waste our money on this monster. We need to pull the plug on TIA and start over with a smarter, less damaging approach.

We are in a country where our federal government is doing everything it can to increase our electric bills, gasoline costs, food prices and water prices. It has passed laws that increase our health insurance costs. This is the same federal government that gives states $15 billion each to destroy their own city and county elected government models. It is the same federal government who wants to deed our resources and our property over the U.N.

It is the same federal government we need to force to return to compliance with our Constitution and its 10th Amendment. It’s the same federal government who is bribing our State politicians with grants earmarked to do stupid things to bankrupt us.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader