Once elected, he ignored both

the city and county land use plans when he annexed, rezoned and increased

density on those properties 51 times while in office.

In the '90s Fayetteville grew

99 percent compared to the unincorporated county's growth of 27 percent.

The Pavilion, with its aftermath of crime, traffic and prisoners in our

county jail, is a result of annexation. The people of Fayetteville have

suffered drastic changes in their quality of life and all county taxpayers

have seen their taxes increased due to this type of uncontrolled growth.

Now Mike Wheat says he wants

to strictly adhere to the LUP to slow growth. How could anyone possibly

believe him after observing his decade-long performance in Fayetteville?

We cannot risk a similar period of uncontrolled growth throughout the

county. Fayetteville and our county have suffered enough.

Compare his performance in

office to mine. In the four years since I was elected we have slowed residential

growth by 47 percent and commercial growth by 44 percent. We didn't stop

growth; we merely got it to a controlled level to preserve our infrastructure.

Incredibly, Mike Wheat criticizes

me for voting against the LUP one time in four years. Official public

records show that I felt it was unfair to hold the last large landowner

in the area to the LUP when previous boards had not held any of the neighboring

landowners to the LUP.

Just and equitable treatment

of county citizens is of critical importance as we apply county ordinances.

We must achieve a balance between the rights of our citizens and the health,

safety and welfare of our community. In this case, we achieved that balance

(29 acres) with the majority (52 acres) being donated to the county for

permanent greenspace and buffering. When faced with tough decisions, commissioners

must hammer out tough solutions.

The bottom line is we both

promised to slow growth. Not only did Mike fail to slow growth, he accelerated

it. The official records show very clearly that I slowed growth.

2. Mike Wheat's campaign repeatedly

claims that the current county commissioners are always suing the cities.

This is simply not true.

Fact: Fayette County has never

sued Peachtree City.

Fact: Fayette County sued Fayetteville

once in 1988 (14 years ago). No current commissioners were on the board

in 1988.

Fact: Fayette County sued Fairburn

last year to prevent them from bringing Fulton County's and later Fairburn's

sewer system into Fayette County. Weiland Homes and Tyrone had to be included

since they had signed the agreement with Fairburn.

Fact: In the tax equity litigation,

still pending, the county was sued by Peachtree City, Fayetteville and

Tyrone. The county did not ever contemplate suing the cities over taxes.

3. Just a few weeks before

our election, a city councilman from Tyrone accused the county commissioners

of violating the Open Meetings law of Georgia, alleging that we improperly

voted in executive session. He believed the law prohibited those votes.

He demanded and got an investigation by the solicitor general of Fayette

County. The solicitor ruled the county did not violate the law in any

way. Despite the fact that the ruling was made public, Mr. Wheat continues

to this day to accuse us of violating the law when he knows otherwise.

4. Mr. Wheat claims he supports

impact fees on developers and I do not. He says I have taken no actions.

I don't question that he may support such impact fees. Fayetteville has

had them for years.

However, to say I don't is

another total distortion of fact. The official public records tell the

truth. For a year and one-half Linda Wells, Harold Bost and I pushed for,

negotiated with the cities and got an agreement signed by all the cities

and the county. At the last minute the cities withdrew, opting to sue

the county over taxes.

Had the cities agreed to jail

impact fees, rather than attempting to use the impact fee agreement to

get tax concessions the county could not agree to, all Fayette County

citizens would be paying less property taxes today. Incidentally, during

the same time period, the county enacted and is now collecting impact

fees from developers for fire services.

The above are only four examples

of a much greater effort to mislead our citizens. I hope these obvious

examples of contrived misinformation will prompt you to seek the truth.

My campaign has also been apprised of numerous "whisper campaign"

statements which accuse me of one outrageous atrocity after another. I

can only ask you to judge my opponent and I by what we have said and what

we have done.

Four years ago I ran on a three-issue

platform: Ethics, growth management and public safety. I have kept every

promise and am proud of my accomplishments. I have also demonstrated the

courage to fight against anybody or anything that threatens our community.

Not one person has accused me of any ethical or legal violations until

this consultant-driven campaign began.

I ask you to consider the timing

and the motivation of these numerous false statements (both public and

private). I can tell you with 100 percent certainty that if you have been

told that I have done anything unethical or illegal you have been lied

to.

I have never and will never

betray the trust and confidence you have placed in me. Please cast your

vote for me on Aug. 20.

Greg Dunn

Chairman, Fayette County

Board of Commissioners