As of Friday, July 27, 2012
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Rockdale Citizen
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"I chose many years ago to remain in Rockdale County because the schools here were so good. Teachers used to forego better pay in other counties so they could teach in Rockdale. But, as the song says, 'That was yesterday, and yesterday's gone."' Now we are paying a lot of money to keep grandchildren out of the public schools here. The years of decline, led by Samuel King and the current school board, have dealt a terrible blow to Rockdale residents, and we are now hoping desperately hoping that new board members and a new superintendent will begin the hard work of taking the schools back to the level of performance for which they were once known. I would love to see the schools raise their standards to past levels and institute strict disciplinary procedures. It's too late for my family, but there is a future with which we must be concerned. The schools determine the overall wellbeing of our community."
"Just say no to T-SPLOST. The proposal is floated by those wanting billions more to grant favors, and if you really believe that it will relieve traffic, then please call about some waterfront property I have for sale. A close look at the actual projects reveals the foolishness of some of the planned expenditures, like street cars for Atlanta and a portion of a new rail system that won't even be completed under the current proposal. That last means, of course, a return for more money when this latest one expires."
"Just saw the article about Superintendent Autry's new contract. This looks like a good contract. I have a question about the section that states 'fostering collaboration and effective communication and fostering a safe and orderly learning environment.' I really like that part and wonder how the school board plans on measuring Autry's effectiveness regarding those goals. I would start by asking Autry how he plans on measuring the effectiveness of his principals on the same thing. So for example, if it was the end of August, how do you know that the schools performed well or not on inter staff collaboration, safe and orderly learning environment, and effective communication and personal development of teachers? How will he know if he is being successful? How will the principals know? It appears to me that the school system concentrates solely on test scores and these things fall to the wayside. Like I said, I really like those goals and would love to see how responsible the board is on measuring those factors. I personally believe that those are the key things that should be concentrated on."
"I was watching the reports on the Colorado shooting. I know the media is of the opinion that gun laws need to change. NBC did a report on how easy it was to buy an assault rifle and they went into detail about how he used the Internet to see how to build bombs. Do the news stations not realize that they are informing people on how to repeat this crime? They want to blame gun laws but they repeatedly give this criminal what he wanted, attention. I will guarantee that there is another sicko in our country right now learning about this incident on the news and deciding to try it. The media in it's fervor to make money on this coverage is feeding crime as much if not more than the gun laws."
"Well, it doesn't look like the T-SPLOST opponents will be able to use the Georgia 400 tolls as fuel against the referendum anymore. They're going to go away soon."
"It will be a red letter day and a cause for celebration when this arrogant, self-serving man retires. There is no room for justice or fairness in his courtroom because of his self proclaimed 'Godlike' ego. I refuse to refer to this man as a judge. Judges are fair, impartial and make decisions based on facts. Nation makes decisions based on his own personal opinion, without listening to a defense or the facts. ...This is the man who stands in judgement of citizens when they are forced into his courtroom. Just know that your life hangs in the balance at the hands of a man who makes his decision based on what you look like or how he feels that day ... not based on facts! Good riddance, Sidney. Rockdale Countians will hopefully elect a better judge during the next election!"
"For those of you that are trashing the T-SPLOST: We have been trying for over 20 years to get another bridge over I-20 to access the crowded Walmart/Home Depot and Carmike Cinema area. We need it! The wise folks at the FedDOT and GDOT have never seen fit to get us that project. Yet is on the list of the four that we would get for Rockdale. Does that not suggest to you that it is better to determine our own destiny locally instead of paying for and then praying to a state and/or federal group for our local transportation projects needs? And as for those folks griping about the Hayden Quarry road project on the list to better open up Stonecrest and southeast DeKalb county; Look around you and recognize the new makeup of our county. The fact that they got what they wanted on the list attests to local people determining their own destiny on road projects. Do you want a say in where your tax dollars go for transportation, or do you want to stick your head in the sand and tea party in your no new taxes slogan? Then kick that can down the road and vote 'No.' Or get a voice in your transportation choices and vote 'Yes.'"
"Top 10 buildings in Rockdale County that need to be demolished before anything else is built:10. The old movie theater/Crusade Dominion church
The part of the old Target not used by L.A. Fitness
The Daruma (closed for remodeling since 1992(?))
The Racetrac gas station exiting I-20 onto 138
The old dollar theater next to Salem Gate Shopping Center
Salem Gate Shopping Center
All empty car dealerships on Iris Drive
The old Pike's Nursery on Salem Road
The BP station on the corner of Flat Shoals and Salem (closed since Hurricane Katrina)
The old Shoney's/Chinese restaurant/Steakhouse/rat trap on 138
Just as a bonus, let's throw in the hotel next to IHOP that was never finished. So, we need a new YMCA why?"
"The Georgia Legislature members afraid of not being elected if voting to raise taxes for funding transportation, played a shrewd trick on taxpayers. The trick was let taxpayers vote themselves a never-ending tax. Fifty-two percent of T-SPLOST projects will be transit projects. As no transit systems operate without being funded by tax dollars, we taxpayers will be funding these transits projects forever! T-SPLOST? ... Vote No!"
"Three days until school starts and my wife finds out she has 38 students in one of her classes. All other ones full too. Is there a reason classes aren't already pretty much settled and balanced out yet? Some kids check in over the summer but that has to be the exception. Don't they know who is teaching what and which kids will be in class? This should be mostly done before school is let out. Then they give her some 'Flex class' and she doesn't even know what she is supposed to be teaching in there. Is anyone planning at the county office in the summer? If not, what they doing over there every day? I hope Autry starts getting this system to think ahead better."
"As a vice president of my company, I have to shake my head when I hear teacher friends talk about how the school system is run. I wonder if anyone at the county office thinks to have assessment meetings regarding the status of the schools getting ready for the school year. Did the superintendent ask the principals if they were ready for the upcoming year? How do they know if they are ready or not? Does he just wait around and find out that students' schedules are not finalized, some teachers still do not know what they are teaching or what classrooms they will be teaching in? Did no one know that there were technical difficulties with networks that would hurt training when teachers meet in different schools and need their laptops but can't use them because the network is unavailable. Did no one know that the trailers were going to be used for classrooms and needed computers? This is a failure of administrators and county office management. You guys knew school was starting didn't you? It wasn't a surprise that teachers would need to know what they were teaching is it? I always hear educators say, 'We just want to do what's best for the kids.' Well the teachers I know were wondering what you guys were doing all summer because it should run a lot smoother over there with that much predictability. You guys would never make it at my company. We have low predictability about what the customers are going to do and we still have to serve them correctly or lose our jobs. I hate giving my taxes to a bunch of yahoos. Stop looking at scores as your only goal. Get out of your office and go check on something to see if you can help them do their job better. Bozos."----
"This week, we go to the polls to vote on the T-SPLOST and other things. Metro Atlanta is drowning, and the T-SPLOST may not be a well-cared for, nicely painted, bright new life preserver, it's more like an old piece of Styrofoam that floats well, but if you were drowning, would it really matter what was thrown to you to stay afloat? It's not perfect, but do we really want to wait another 2 years before voting on a project, that will just have more road projects (as the Republicans have promised) that will only get clogged up again necessitating another T-SPLOST in another six or eight or 10 years after that Rockdale is ultimately getting much more in return than we are contributing. The I-20 east project which will decrease congestion between Rockdale and Atlanta costs almost twice as much as Rockdale is contributing. The strength of the T-SPLOST projects are in their regional natures, something that the Atlanta area has traditionally ignored. The region can't afford to not pass this measure, transportation funding has always been kicked down the road to the future, well the future is now, vote 'yes' for the T-SPLOST!"
"One of the trends I have seen with incompetent leaders lately is overuse of the term, 'moving forward.' This is a key phrase used by incumbents who have not done a good job or even new candidates who are asked about past criminal records. They want to appear noble and positive as opposed to 'mean and ugly' people who want to bring up poor performance in the past. But everyone knows that the best indicator of future performance is past performance. ... "
"Let' think about the T-SPLOST like this: Would you like to voluntarily give our government an extra $10 to $30 per month? Do you trust them to do exactly like they say they will? Do you believe that they have been good managers with the taxes you have already been paying and should have more? Do you think the only option they have had to deal with the traffic is to ask us for more money? I answered no to all of those questions. These politicians have been raking in tax money for many years. Why are they just now starting to try for a major fix? Why didn't they start this 15 years ago? Why haven't they been budgeting for this yearly instead of asking for this huge lump? I still want them to fix this problem, but I want them to cut funding to wasteful expenditures and the welfare abuse I am always reading about in the news.
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Comments
Sundance 9 months, 4 weeks ago
Just saw the comment about Judge Nations. I agree with part of it and disagree with most of it. Arrogant? Yes. Mean? yes. Unrelenting to idiots who continuously break laws? yes. As a property owner, I want mean judges in this town. With punks cutting each other over their girlfriends, robbing banks, snatching purses, and running over each other with motorcycles, we need mean judges that were born to put their foot on criminal's necks and not let them up. Our society has gotten too lenient on idiots who love nice women judges and weak juries. The principals in our schools are afraid to be hard and their students are growing up to be burglars and dope dealers. I want hard judges so crime doesn't run rampant in this town. I also wish our DA was meaner. Parents have stopped doing their jobs so it's up to the judges. they are our last line of defense.
negneal 9 months, 3 weeks ago
I once witnessed an altercation at a gas station between two idiots. They were about to get into a fist fight but one idiot said that he couldn't fight at this gas station because it was in Rockdale. They decided to take a trip up the road to Dekalb.
Sundance 9 months, 4 weeks ago
I agree with all 10 properties on that demolish list above.
Clark 9 months, 4 weeks ago
I've explained till I'm red in the...fingers about how the T-SPLOST will help traffic congestion. Well I'd like to hear from the poster in the poll above why it will not help? The funds for the remainder of most projects are to be secured from federal funding programs
You're right, transit projects don't cover 100% of their costs, they do have to be continually supported. But not only is operational funding included in the T-SPLOST for these projects, but if you wish for transit projects to be terminated simply because they don't support themselves, then you also must wish for all maintenance and all road projects to be terminated too too because they don't come as close as transit does to supporting themselves, and they move far less people for the same amount of money.
Yes, actually I do trust the current government with my money. There could be improvements, certainly, but I'm not willing to wait a century in the hope that there won't be any waste in government, anyone who thinks there can be is severely misguided. Georgia is number 42nd in [total] tax as a percentage of personal income, meaning that in only 8 other states, the citizens pay less taxes than we do. In only two of these, Texas and Colorado, SPLOST-like tax programs (specified tax over a small region for a specific purpose) have led to and helped expand very successful transit programs in Dallas and Denver respectively. The project for Denver is called FasTracks, and the Dallas programs (multiple) gave rise to DART. Of the remaining six states ranked below us, only have a few bus systems, or at best a very limited-reaching rail line much like MARTA (though all with far less ridership). Georgians already enjoy far lower taxes than most of the country, most of which can be diverted at the whim of politicians. A single percent increase won't hurt anyone and can't be used for anything but the projects on the list.
Elmo 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Paraphrase: saying the same thing over and over, and expecting a different response, borders on fanaticism.
The fact that you trust the current government with your money was your "you didn't build that" moment, providing a wide window into your motives for drooling over the possibility of MARTA becoming a reality in Rockdale.
You are sounding like you are connected, at least, ideologically, with "Mr. transportation" on the BOC.
I think your goal is not to ease traffic IN Rockdale, but to provide easier access TO Rockdale from DeKalb and Fulton.
But as I observe "NO TO T-SPLOST" signs everywhere, and news articles not giving it much hope, I take it as an omen that you are "turning red" for naught.
To most, the very idea that Oden wants it, is enough to vote against it.
Lawrence8 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Trust the government with your money? Would you also trust a fox to watch a hen house too? I don't ever trust anyone with my money. I don't care who is in office, everyone can be corrupted. Public money needs to be watched closely- just like the hen house!
Clark 9 months, 3 weeks ago
So you'd prefer the transportation projects to be handled from the usual funding sources that don't have citizen oversight committees and the strict laws governing SPLOSTs?
Lawrence8 9 months, 3 weeks ago
if you're asking what I prefer- then I prefer roads be privatized. Let corporations draw revenue based on road usage. This would encourage road development through competition. But then that is the capitalist coming out and every liberal is against the free market. I bet we'd have some nicely paved roads if someone is making money off of them. I know avoid Ebenezer road because SPLOST dollars screwed it up! But everyone knows that once government takes something over they never turn it back to a private entity. You think for one moment a citizen oversight committee will have any impact on this you're wrong. The money will go to DeKalb and Fulton to ensure they're taken care of. They will have more appointees in their districts than Rockdale. Rockdale will get the scraps. If that's okay with you then vote YES tomorrow.
Southside 9 months, 3 weeks ago
But we have Oden looking out for our best interests. He's pefectly positioned.
Clark 9 months, 3 weeks ago
So you want to pay $10 to drive to the grocery store each time? Because that's what privatized roads would mean. There is no money to be made in moving people from A to B, that's why it's in the hands of the government, just like police, fire, education, etc. How about we apply the same logic to the police? Call them about a prowler? $50 right there. They stop someone trying to kill you? $400. I don't know what you've heard about Ebeneezer road, but you might want to try driving on it one day. I have since the work, and it's better than it was. Go read the T-SPLOST project list, because that's where the money is going. Rockdale is taken care of just as much as Rockdale is. I'm sorry that you moved into a county so small it feels as if we're left out, if you don't like it, then you can move back to some bigger county that's getting projects. There was a public input phase when the projects were being decided on. If you didn't participate, then that's your problem, but you had the chance. Rockdale will ultimately receive more than we contribute financially, that's a simple fact.
Lawrence8 9 months, 3 weeks ago
You asked what I wanted. There are better alternatives, I'm sure. It wouldn't cost $10 to drive to the store. I don't have a plan for it so I couldn't say where the money would come from nor how much it would cost. Since you referenced education let's start there. The US ranks 23rd with countries such as Finland, Netherlands, Korea, UK all ranking way above the US. Now drilling down further GA ranks about 45th in the states. So I fail to see how the government is doing a better job than the private schools. Police, fire, you have me there. Those are required and I don't have a better solution (but I'm always armed so that's a start). The government is working on taking health care from private industry now. I pray when that day comes they don't screw it up like they did our education system....
Clark 9 months, 3 weeks ago
All of those countries you listed still have government-provided education, they didn't privatize either. Those countries also very heavily subsidize public transit, far more than the United States does compared to roads.
Lawrence8 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Oh, with a new headline in the Citizen reading "Newton/Rockdale Unemployment Increase" the last thing we need are more taxes! The Federal government spends nearly $405 million an hour. We need less spending.
Frustrated 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Clark saying the same thing over and over doesnt help your argument a bit. Come up with something new to say about TSPLOST that might change our mind, but please stop posting the same thing over and over.
Clark 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Sorry that you're tired of the truth, but if I hear the same arguments, I still have the same counter-arguments. The truth doesn't change just because you want it to.
Frustrated 9 months, 3 weeks ago
I never tire of hearing the truth but what I DO tire of is someone saying the same ole same ole trying to get people to think the same way you do. After a while it starts sounding like blah blah blah
Clark 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Well now you know how I feel about the anti-T-SPLOST people.
wavace 9 months, 4 weeks ago
I actually agree with the ten properties to be demolished.
the_shadow 9 months, 4 weeks ago
Vote No to Jeff Wigington!
Duster 9 months, 4 weeks ago
The only reason he took the toll off 400 was to make you all warm a fuzzy inside to vote for T-SPLOST. I will not vote for any SPLOST for many years to come. I am tired of the lies and wasted money of mine!
Zo 9 months, 4 weeks ago
What, skin color don't matter....I wish you would take your own advice, but its hard to break tradition when you have been doing the same thing for over 400yrs.
Now apply that to the Sheriff race with one of your own have allowed the morale to go down & pay be the lowest pay of any other Sheriff's dept. We have officers on food stamps and taking to 2&3 outside jobs to make ends meet.
Ferguson has an abundance of knowledge in setting standards, ask Fulton County who washed out all the corruption, he will get this county National accreditation meaning MORE money coming into the county, he will go beyond the suv's & sport cars you currently see the current sheriff & his buddies driving. Ferguson will be about taking care of the troops, the officer, not be just for himself.
So, please vote on knowledge & essential skill sets NOT color. Thanks
VPublicola 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Does that include the fancy BMW with the personalized license tag that Ferguson currently drives? There's a maxim about BMWs and the individuals that own and drive them that has been around for more than 20 years and in my experience that maxim has held true more often than not.
We have no assurances that your candidate wasn't some of the "corruption" washed out of Fulton County!
Ferguson has proven to me that he is dishonest and only seeks to correct that dishonesty when he is caught with his hand in the cookie jar. He will never receive my vote or support.
Lawrence8 9 months, 3 weeks ago
We need not to worry about Ferguson as he will lose the primary tomorrow and it will come down to Wigington and Levett. You are spot on about your comments of corruption with Ferguson! Wigington is a fine sheriff and deserves to continue being sheriff until he wishes to retire. Let's keep Wigington!
1ayk 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Last i looked this Country is only 236 years old. Where do you get this 400 years stuff. Oh, I know, race card, 400 sounds better than the actual 87 years slavery was going on for some blacks or the 47 years since the voter rights act. Now to Ferguson. I stated this before and you did not respond. National Accreditations take money, local government, community and staff buy in. Policies have to be changed to meet the requirements. A dedidicated staff has to be created to oversee the files and requirements to show compliance. Will Ferguson be able to obtain the funding from the commissioners? I doubt it. They can't provide money now to help out the current Sheriff's Office. Grants run out sooner than later, then it falls on the tax payers. And with the two current liberal commissioners who ae actually running the County their way, are running it into the ground,loosing revenue by running people out of the County due to incompetence.. I fail to see how accreditations bring money into the County since government agencies are non-profit. I see a lot of other Sheriff's Offices driving SUVs, "sports cars" etc. Ferguson going to sell them and only hve patrol cars? What will he drive, I bet it won't be one of the marked units. Please let me know.
NitetimeinDaytime 9 months, 3 weeks ago
cough Slavery in America began when the first African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619 cough - while only 393 years ago, technically --- way over 87 and only 7 less than 400.
Carry on.
1ayk 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Thanks for the history lesson, but back before 1776 North America had settlements from most nations in Western Europe as well as Eastern Europe. Does not some of the blame go on them and those Africans that sold their own people or tribes they had captured? And, in addition, not only blacks were slaves back then and were not restricted to North America. Look it up again. We can only regret that when the U.S. became a Country that slavery continued. All races have beenn slaves at one time or another. Doesn't make it right but I tire of failure being blamed on racism and not "getting and equal shot" when affirmative action did just that. How did that work out?
NitetimeinDaytime 9 months, 3 weeks ago
You misunderstood my comment. I was not validating what Zo was saying. Racisim comes in all shapes and colors. I was merely pointing out that the oppression of blacks on this soil (regardless of who was doing the oppressing) began almost 400 years ago. It is not like in 1776 all the oppressors got up and said "yep, we're a nation now so we gotta ship up or ship out". That being said, I will agree that a black man's worst enemy can sometimes be himself - there comes a point when you have to let go of the past and deal with individuals in their own right.
1ayk 9 months, 3 weeks ago
We can't change the past. But we can improve now and the future. The problem now is it is election time. And, I think you are aware what both sides will do to get elected. I wish it would be different and maybe some day it will.
Elmo 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Zo!!!!! Where in the heck have you been? We haven't had a true racist on the board since you left!
I see you're still pushing ol' fergie for sheriff, telling us all how it will turn Conghetto into a crime-free Utopia. Little kids will be safe running the streets at midnight and all of the perps on the jailhouse blotter will be white.
How only fergie can ask Obama to reach into his "stash" and flower Rockdale with a plethora of free cash so every officer can drive their own BMW. How fergie will bless us all with his vast array of knowledge of crime fighting and the sun will, once again, arise on Rockdale County.
All corruption, greed and envy shall perish from the land and moonbeams and unicorns will flourish among us.
The truth is, however, it will just be more "hope and Change" claptrap as we go "Forward" into the abyss. The truth is, you will never be able to look "forward" when all do is continually look "backwards" 400 years.
judgedredd 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Hey Zo or Oz whatever it is... You have no clue, Federal, State, County or City employees are not allowed to receive public assistance. Know your facts about issues before you say something. I do agree with you about being low payed but it is not the Sheriff who has caused this issue. It is the citizens thru past elections and their inattentivness on the matter of pay from surrounding counties. In defense of the current Sheriff, he has not only broached the subject privately with the current administration; he has also done so publicly. If your King Oden or the citizens of this county will not allow them to get paid then the regardless of who is in power, the situation will remain the same.
AWOL 9 months, 4 weeks ago
I agree about "moving forward". Oden drives that one into the ground. And it's always when Van Ness or somebody else is talking about something that he doesn't like. It's almost like a parrot. "moving forward. moving forward. moving forward"
Southside 9 months, 3 weeks ago
You just insulted parrots all over the world.
1ayk 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Forward is the progressive statement of President Obama. You don't think Oden came up with it himself do you? They both need to go before this Country goes forward to total disaster!
Elmo 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Slogans and catch words fire up the misinformed, like reading only the headlines and not the story.
Millions of Americans have lost "HOPE" and the "CHANGE" has all been for the worst.
"YES WE CAN" has materialized as "no we didn't", and "FORWARD" has become "advance to the rear".
The slicksters who tout these slogans are street corner, three-card monte dealers full of "gonna do's" which never come to fruition. They're after the power, and the money, and so long as their captive voters are satiated, they are happy just struttin' their new-found perks of office.
America has had a 50-year, downhill slide, and those of us who have witnessed it know their is a better way, we've lived it.
Lawrence8 9 months, 3 weeks ago
All of the T-SPLOST comments sound professionally scripted to me. You've been working on building a new bridge for 20 years to get to Wal-Mart? Has Wal-Mart been there that long?
Elmo 9 months, 3 weeks ago
From the looks of Walmart's parking lot, people don't seem to have any trouble getting there.
Frustrated 9 months, 3 weeks ago
best I remember Wal-Mart was built just before the 1996 Olympics. That bridge talk only came after the parker rd bridge was built
Lawrence8 9 months, 3 weeks ago
That's what I was thinking. I remember rumblings about a cloverleaf intersection in 2000 or 2001 to help with the traffic. I live on the south side and have no trouble getting to that area. It's getting out of there that is problematic.
Elmo 9 months, 3 weeks ago
From my location, it's just as close, and much easier, to go to the McDonough Walmart and other shopping venues there than risking life and limb by coming to Conyers, especially after dark.
The way it's going, CONGhetto will soon look like any exit you care to take off I-20 in DeKalb County.
Clark 9 months, 3 weeks ago
No wonder you're so rabidly anti-transit, you live in a part of the county that would benefit very little from it.
Southside 9 months, 3 weeks ago
If he lived between Conyers & McDonough, wouldn't he have a double benefit since both counties are in the Metro Atlanta area? He could take Marta to Walmart & then jog home. Both ways less traffic & ol Elmo would be happy and healthy
Clark 9 months, 3 weeks ago
MARTA wasn't, and isn't going to run a rail line into the middle of nowhere. If he wants to take MARTA to Walmart, then he would have a LONG jog home.
AJK 9 months, 3 weeks ago
I wonder, if the State didn't spend so much on welfare type programs would they have enough money to fix the traffic problems they should've planned for many years ago?
I'm not interested in voting myself a tax increase. I voted NO on T-SPLOST, and I hope you do too.
Zo 9 months, 3 weeks ago
This paper is a joke I hv attempted to post several times & yet has it appeared. A pawn will never be a king...you might get Ferguson out, but Levette will Never be sheriff. Using Levette as a pawn was a coward move.
johndoemo_ 9 months, 3 weeks ago
I like Wiggington but Levette would be my second choice. If Levette wins, I'm OK with it.
Frustrated 9 months, 3 weeks ago
maybe you should take that as a hint Zo. Just kidding, just kidding
Southside 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Do you think Levette knows he is a coward because he wants to be sheriff ? I'm willing to bet you won't come out from your virtual hood & go tell him to his face he is a coward.
judgedredd 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Hey Zo or Oz, for the 957th time. It is ERIC LEVETT; not LEVETTE... Please get it right, he will soon be your Sheriff.
Zo 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Ferguson's success is his curse..... Logic says reward "success", but I guess when you compare him to wig & lev(more the same partners) he's too successful. I hope as parents you teach your child(ren) to reward success not envy it.
Again, a pawn will never b a king. Wig played his hand smooth & found him a good pawn(we so easily perseuded). Levette which car is wig going to allow u to drive for being a good pawn?
Elmo 9 months, 3 weeks ago
"...success is his curse"...? That's the funniest one yet Zo. You've been taking lessons from Obama, it seems...an excuse for everything. I don't know who is winning at this point, but I've wondering how you would explain it if Fergie loses. At least you didn't play the race card this time.
"Success is his curse.". That has got to be the motto of the entitlement crowd. Successful people furnish their living for them, and then they're cursed for doing it.
I'm sure the lady he pulled over while in Augusta was glad he wasn't successful with her.
"success is his curse", that is the most idiotic thing I've ever heard.
VPublicola 9 months, 3 weeks ago
"I'm sure the lady he pulled over while in Augusta was glad he wasn't successful with her."
I think that was Oz Nesbitt, but not sure which lady you are refrring to because there was also a teenager that Oz interacted with..
VPublicola 9 months, 3 weeks ago
...and a handful of lies and dishonesty make the alleged success irrelevant. After all, drug dealers, brothels, and the mafia are all successful. So, in ZOLogic the success of drug dealers, brothels and the mafia are their curse, too! So, ZO which mafia clan...
BrentLuNae 9 months, 3 weeks ago
I must ask this question, Zo. If Ferguson is so great, why didn't he run for Sheriff in Fulton County where he came from? That is where all of his experience lies. Heck, Richard Lawson has come out of the woodworks to run again so it seems like it would have been a good time for Ferguson run there. Why come to Rockdale of all counties? Can you answer that question? Also, Thomas Brown of DeKalb County is running unopposed, I believe. Why didn't Ferguson throw his hat in the ring there? Could it be that the black folk in those 2 counties know the REAL Ferguson; therefore, Ferguson knows he wouldn't have a chance to get elected in those counties. I'm just asking...
Zo 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Emo- not an excuse read the comments on this page alone & the countless others. You included, asking about his BMW hw expensive his home is, hw he paid for his kids to go to college, he's not getting a PhD, but EdU, etc. those are irrelevant petty items for shallow people. Especially when the ones you supporting has nothing His hard work & "success" helped him obtain & do those things. You all NEVER asked of standard qualifications and/or his accomplishment in law enforcement.
I ask relevant questions such as why is pay low for officerS, morale is down, lack of trained officer who's lack of training allow criminals to go free, why is your department lacking diversity in upper ranks. Then with Levette what essential skill do u hv that makes you better qualified, did your evals reflect low performance?my questions were never answered.
So again Ferguson's success was his "curse", because that's all y'all talked about was what he had.
Elmo 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Now I know your problem Zo, or at least one of the...it's reading comprehension. The only thing I said about a "BMW" was asking if Fergie would help his staff to have one, if he had been elected. I didnt say a thing about his education, or a PhD, that was all you.
Now, stop being a sore loser, it hurts your cause greatly. Have some pride, at least.
Zo 9 months, 1 week ago
Caught you not telling the truth AGAIN http://www.rockdalecitizen.com/news/2012/jun/06/league-to-host-forum-for-primary-candidates/#c37969
Do u envy Romney's success like u envy Ferguson & his education?
Lorenzo 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Diversity in upper ranks? I thought we were looking for a well run, well managed organization. Why is the cry "more diversity" always heard out of some groups that don't get their way. Oz, I've been reading your comments for quite some time now. You are truly a person with a mission not to build, improve or educate....but to divide, set against and stagnate. Hope you and Donald are quite happy together for the next 4 years hatching new plots and consipiracies.
Frustrated 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Im starting to wonder if Zo isnt Ferguson himself. Seems he knows an awful lot about the man. More than you woul dknow just by checking his credentials. But Zo the election is over for Ferguson move on.
Zo 9 months, 3 weeks ago
When a man has great character you can safely be assured of his credentials....
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