So did you vote last week?

It's all over in Fayetteville;

the incumbent won handily.

But in Peachtree City, you

registered voters who had more important things to do last week than practice

your American citizenship you get another chance to do the right thing.

Yep, even if you did NOT vote

last week, you can still vote in the runoff Nov. 27.

Let me put that in bold: HEY,

SLACKER, YOU CAN STILL VOTE!

Please do. A 34 percent turnout

in a city as blessed and supposedly smart as Peachtree City is just a

bloody disgrace.

There are some even here in

this office who say that low turnouts are a good thing. There are those

who say that an increase in voter turnout just increases the level of

ignorant votes. I have hope that this is not true.

It must have been a real important

soccer match, or trip to the grocery store, or maybe a not-to-be-missed

episode of Oprah to cause those otherwise registered voters to deliberately

ignore their duty. Here's hoping that Nov. 27 will find those missing

voters in the voting booths in Peachtree City.

If this column makes you angry,

good. Take it out on me at the voting booth. Just vote.

Now, about the election.

Do you suppose that the Peachtree

City Council got the message from the resounding bond referenda defeats

last week?

One who didn't, apparently,

is mayoral candidate Gary Rower. He won't say whether he will try to get

those defeated projects in through the back door should he be elected.

He doesn't even like the notion of voters getting to decide on how to

spend their tax dollars. Rower's position: Away with the voters; bring

on the annexations; welcome, developers, shoehorn some more traffic in

here!

Mr. Rower seems to want to

follow in Mayor Bob Lenox's footsteps and become King Bob II.

How the "Ins" and

their anointed ones are gnashing their teeth! Now that the "Outs"

are close to taking power, the "I-promise-to-always-be-polite-and-never-divisive"

crowd is suddenly taking off their white gloves to reveal mud-filled hands

and mouths. Just read today's letters to the editor. Sign-stealing, mud-slinging,

mouth-foaming ... my, my, my. How the worm does turn.

In King Bob's memorable turn

of phrase to a local civic club: "The inmates are taking over the

asylum."

Some asylum Peachtree City's

levers of power. Some inmates you and me, the average taxpaying citizens,

tired of closed government, power-brokered decisions, and arrogant dismissal

Average, everyday citizens

are taking a much-needed broom and sweeping out the "good ol' boys"

and their cronies and bringing in fresh vision, fresh approaches and fresh

air to a long-entrenched regime gone stale and fat with power.

Here is one conservative who

is ready for a change from the "none-of-your-business-as-usual"

clique.

And here's hoping I'll be waiting

along with you in a long line to vote Nov. 27.