Launches RepealRegionalism.com
T-SPLOST
proponents kick off a new strategy, Transportation Leadership Coalition responds.
March,
28, 2013, Roswell, GA – Last night, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and PNC
Bank hosted a community forum on Regionalism.
According to the event marketing, the forum was a direct response to the
failure of the transportation sales tax referendum last summer. The companies claim that T-SPLOST was
actually a “failure of metro Atlanta’s fragmented communities to work together
as a region.” Transportation Leadership
Coalition (TLC) disagrees with this assumption and launches website RepealRegionalism.com
in response.
“It
isn’t a failure of metro Atlanta’s ‘fragmented communities to work together,’”
said Jack Staver, Chairman of the Transportation Leadership Coalition. “The issue is dysfunctional county
governments who are not willing to do the hard work to protect their counties
and come up with mutually beneficial solutions with their neighboring
counties. This is highly concerning,”
Staver continues, “because regionalism is the fastest growing issue in Georgia
that most citizens do not know exists.”
Regionalism
was first introduced to Georgians in 2008 when the Georgia General Assembly
passed HB 1216 and was signed into law by Governor Sonny Purdue. HB 1216 reorganized the Georgia Department of
Community Affairs. It established 12
regions and created the governing structure for those who would serve on these
regional councils creating regional commissions.
“The
biggest concern with this approach is that the regions are ‘ruled’ by governing
councils who were not elected to serve,” said Field Searcy, a key member of the
TLC team. “We citizens have no recourse
with regional councils like we have with an elected county commissioner or city
council. If you think about it,
appointed officials are not accountable to us, the people. They are accountable to whoever appointed
them.” Searcy continues, “The United
States Constitution ‘guarantee[s] to every State in this Union a Republican
form of Government.’ That means elected
officials, not appointed ones, represent us.
Our own state Constitution provides for Home Rule. Home Rule protects our individual rights,
prevents state government from interfering in city and county operations, and
protects the principle of one person, one vote.”
RepealRegionalism.com
aims to help educate the people of Georgia on the dangers of Regionalism and
stop the growth of an unelected and unaccountable form of government.
About
Transportation Leadership Coalition, LLC
Transportation
Leadership Coalition, LLC, is a grassroots, all-volunteer organization that has
come together in the belief that the State of Georgia can do a much better job
of transportation planning than passing the largest tax increase in Georgia
history and encourage the citizens of Georgia to become involved in their local
governments to avoid the trappings of appointed government bureaus. We believe that if Georgians understand the
facts about regionalism, they will overwhelmingly reject it.
Source:
Web: www.RepealRegionalism.com by Field Searcy
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