To elect you, Mike Wheat, to

the Fayette County Board of Commissioners would be just like returning

your old buddy, Robert Sprayberry, and Scott Burrell to the commission

and bring back the double standards that previously existed.

And of course, everytime we

look at a map of Fayetteville city limits, we can not forget that you

seldom ever saw an annexation you did not like. I believe there were 36

total annexations during your time as mayor. The map of the Fayetteville

limits looks like an octopus with numerous unincorporated county parcels

totally surrounded by the city of Fayetteville.

And we can't forget you ran

as an anti-annexation candidate the first time you ran for mayor.

Everybody can see your campaign promise meant nothing. Why should anyone

believe you now?

And, oh, yes! We cannot forget

what all your commercial rezonings such as the Pavilion did to the crime

rate in Fayetteville. Mr. Wheat, in case you don't remember, the number

of detainees in the Fayette County jail took a dramatic jump upward immediately

upon the Pavilion opening. That was the beginning of the urgent need to

build a new jail.

And we can't forget that in

year 2000 we took a survey of the detainees in the Fayette County jail

and found Fayetteville had approximately three times the number of detainees

as did Peachtree City, even though Peachtree City is close to three times

as large as Fayetteville, population-wise.

And no, Mr. Wheat, we don't

want anything to do with the kind of public trust you would restore. We

remember only too well when your were mayor of Fayetteville and your very

good friend, Robert Sprayberry, was vice chairman of the Fayette County

Commission, only 14 percent of Fayette County citizens trusted their public

officials.

Now, neither you nor your buddy,

Mr. Sprayberry, are in office, and according to a recent AJC poll, 61

percent of Fayette citizens trust their county commissioners. Fayette

County had by far the highest rating of any county in the metro area according

to this AJC poll.

No, thank you, Mr. Wheat. We

the citizens of Fayette County like it much better now that we have elected

officials we can truly trust than when you were mayor of Fayetteville.

We do not want to backslide.

Mike, I will give you credit

for being a slick politician. It appears obviously you are an honor graduate

of the "Bill Clinton School of Politics." You are a slick talker

like Clinton, you twist the facts like Clinton, and you take care of your

friends like Clinton.

Fayette County cannot afford

to have you, Mr. Wheat, as a county commissioner and go