What is council for if not for citizens?

What

is council for if not for citizens?

Does Mayor Lenox

know more about the proposed West Village annexation

issue than anyone? Good question. I believe Mayor Lenox

probably knows a great deal of detail regarding the

annexation. However, the detail is irrelevant if the

citizens of Peachtree City feel this annexation should

not go through.

In this same March 22

edition under the "Tennant `free-speech' law

tabled," Mayor Lenox is quoted as saying,

"these meetings are not for your benefit, they are

held to do the business of the city."

I ask you, Mayor, who or

what is the city if not the citizens?

I believe that the city

council needs a certain level of decorum and that

meetings are not clearing houses for every citizen

grievance. However, either the city council represents

the citizens of Peachtree City or they don't. If they

don't (and maybe Mayor Lenox again has been misquoted but

this is my interpretation of the above and published

quote) then whom do they represent? There should be some

way that concerned citizens can voice their opinions at

these meetings. The length of the meetings should be kept

reasonable; however, denying citizens the right to speak

their opinion in front of their elected representatives

is unconscionable. Especially when their comments are

relevant to the issues at hand.

As far as "What Really

Happened," all of this will come out in the wash.

It's too bad a citizen can be sued for libel for an op-ed

letter published in any paper. This all makes me wonder

about the law firm Webb, Stuckey and Lindsey. I know that

if I was currently using their services and saw this

lawsuit, which is in my opinion frivolous, I would

reexamine my relationship with them.

Throughout this letter I

had used the term, "in my opinion." Thankfully

the First Amendment of our Constitution allows me to do

this in any fashion I wish to.

My only suggestion to all

elected officials in our city, county and state is to

start paying attention to what the people want if you

expect to keep your jobs. I still believe Mayor Lenox and

the rest of the city council can preserve their jobs

through the next election if they stop and listen to the

voices of the people, whether these are letters to the

editor, concerned citizens at a council meeting or

e-mails, faxes or telephone calls.

Since it is my opinion that

these have largely been ignored, I doubt this will occur.

I also believe as another writer put it in the March 22

edition of this paper that "the silent

majority" is out there, and they are waiting to

vote.

Don Campbell

Peachtree City

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