Second, there was Fred Wellman's

letter. When he saw certain defeat in the mayoral election he dropped

out, cashing in on the 9-11 crisis for his withdraw alibi. This is the

same Fred Wellman that chastised Dan Tennant for criticizing a Peachtree

City Council member in print, just like Wellman did to Steve Brown. That

makes Mr. Wellman a hypocritical loser.

On Feb. 27 there was the Bill

Aleshire letter complaining that he was cut off while speaking at a City

Council meeting. Hello? Is anyone home, Mr. Aleshire? The issue he wanted

to talk about had been sent to committee and was therefore inappropriate

for that meeting, but that fact was not going to slow him down. He had

his little speech prepared and he was going to make everyone listen to

it.

It is a shame that all this

criticism is not about the issues. It is all very personal. Steve Brown

was soundly ridiculed for his moratorium idea, but there was not one solitary

negative word said about the other three council members who voted for

it. Not one word.

The mayor and council are being

criticized for doing exactly what the voters sent them to do: keep developers

under control to preserve the Peachtree City lifestyle we all bought into

and to manage the city using the personal principles we liked enough to

elect them.

What have we learned from the

first few months of 2002? We now realize that we, as citizens, must attend

council meetings to neutralize the special interest groups who flood a

meeting to push their personal agendas.

We thought that electing Mayor

Brown, et al, would mean that mainstream Peachtree City wishes would be

handled without us needing to attend the meetings. Unfortunately, that

did not work out. Please attend meetings to support our excellent City

Council against special interest groups like the developers and tennis

center employees. The city's needs are far above personal interests and

personal vendettas.

Bill Webster

Peachtree City

[email protected]