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Dear Governor Perdue and Lt. Governor Taylor,

There are less than 50 days until the election. It’s time for you to answer questions about your performance and some of the ideas you’ve presented. Thus far, neither of you have been particularly impressive in your campaigns.

So far, Governor, during your administration, we’ve had a net loss of 4 car plants. GM? Gone. Ford? Gone. Mercedes? You blew that! Kia? Our state is now caught up in one of the largest corruption scams in Korean history. That negative impact is huge! Additionally, only one company has relocated it’s world headquarters here during your tenure, and that’s Arby’s. How are you going to do better by all levels of the workforce here in Georgia? What will you do differently, because what you’re doing has not worked so far.

Lt. Governor Taylor, you’ve said you want to eliminate parole. How are you going to do that when many of our county prisons and jails are already overcrowded? Are you just going to build money at the problem and build jails all over rural Georgia so that we turn south Georgia into Flint Michigan? If you’re going to be smart enough to avoid those financial boondoggles, what sentencing reforms are you going to combine with the end of parole to ensure there is some sanity to the system?

Both of you! Where’s the rail? Neither of you have put any of your political muscle towards support of the rail transport you claim to want! Anyone remember Governor Perdue saying the Lovejoy Line would be up and running in his term? This is an 80-20 issue! There is an amazing amount of support for taking some of the money from the DOT budget and putting it into rail. Why not give the people what they want? Moreover, GRTA will soon lose large parts of it’s federal funding. Are you going to make that funding up or let those services lapse?

What are you going to do to assure the long term water sustainability of the region? What laws will you enact so that all commercial and residential builders take steps to use less water? Governor Perdue, what are you willing to give away in your upcoming November 30th meeting with the Governors of Alabama and Florida? What will you absolutely not give up?

Will you add entrepreneurship to curriculums all across the board? We’re behind a majority of the states in the basics. The United States is well behind industrial nations in the quality of basic education we provide our young people. Entrepreneurship and creative thinking is what has let Americans overcome our deficit in math and science, but as India, China, Israel, and others move forward, we’ll lose our edge there two unless we create a culture of people who expect to measure risk, innovate, and consistently create new ways. We need stronger, math, science, and arts education if we’re going to create a nimble thinking set of young people whose ideas and companies will take the world by storm.

Lastly, What will you do to help the City of Atlanta, especially in regard to its homeless population? Right now, homelessness is one of the biggest obstacles to the full redevelopment of lower midtown, Fairley Poplar, and Castleberry Hill. Homeless people are still Georgians. Many of them need more services than any city or county can provide. Will you pledge to provide the resources that would let many of these folks lead more productive happier lives and get themselves off the street? In return, you’ll get an Atlanta with a stronger tax base, more visitors, and as a more vibrant community. That will increase state coffers and revenue and pay for itself. Popular or not, it’s the right thing.

VOTERS: You have just over two weeks to register to vote! Candidates! Stop with the platitudes tell us specifically how you will get your agendas accomplished!

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