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Citizen Newsletter #318 Henry Citizen (hccitizen@hccitizen.net) hc.citizen@hccitizen.org; Saturday, January 7, 2012 2:51 PM

The Citizen Newsletter

Issue # 318

January 8, 2012

The Conservative Voice of Henry County

Contact The Citizen at hc.citizen@hccitizen.org

www.scribd.com/Henry_Citizen View or download at www.scribd.com/Henry_Citizen In This Edition The Agenda: Iowa Results Santorum = Big Government Impact of T-SPLOST Cemetery Research Group John Douglas: Newton BoC YOUR VOICE Ethanol Plant Sold at Loss Economic Development?? What We Need Newt! Aussie PM: Immigrants Must Adapt Do you have a story to tell? Become a Citizen contributor. Submit your opinions, commentaries and articles to HC.CITIZEN@HCCITIZEN.ORG

March 6, 2012 Presidential Preference Primary:

Voter Registration Deadline: February 6, 2012

The Agenda: Larry Stanley, Iowa Presidential Caucus Results

http://www.sbn.tv/archives/3512

Ray and Larry discuss the results of the Iowa caucus and the strengths and weaknesses of each of the Republican presidential candidates.

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The Citizen's Persons of the Year Acclamation! This acclamation will

mimic" Time Magazine's annual "Person of the Year!" Everyone can nominate someone. Some of the criteria for nominees would be: 1.) Must be a resident of Henry County.

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2.) Must have contributed to some noteworthy accomplishment that indirectly/directly benefits Henry County. The Citizen will accept nominations until January 20th. Please submit a profile and description of your nominees accomplishments, actions and specifically how he/she has brought about positive, significant benefit to our County. The Citizen will feature and profile persons who "for betterment of Henry County has done the most to influence the events of the year."

Jake Lilley You have got to see this!!! I wouldnt have believed it if I hadnt seen it for myself!!

Rick Santorum's "Real Concerns" About The Tea Party

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/ Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, June 2011 Larry Stanley Every time Santorum speaks he alienates Americans. Santorum makes the Case: VOTE FOR GINGRICH

Rick Santorum On Small Government Santorum is no friend of small government: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=1Gwwmm-cQxU

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The Impact of T-SPLOST We are looking for TEA Party, 912 groups, etc. to sign off on the attached letter and send it to the Governor and the legislature. Steve Brown Fayette County Commission, Post 4 January 6, 2012 The Honorable Nathan Deal Governor, State of Georgia 100 Washington Street Atlanta, GA 30334 Dear Governor Deal, We hope this correspondence finds both you and the First Lady in good health and good spirits. As your devoted supporters from the campaign trail to your election as our Governor, we have reached a point at which we feel compelled to put our thoughts in writing and request that you lend your utmost consideration to our concerns. A series of events involving our Republican leadership at the State level has caused a great deal of unease amid the core constituency. There was no small measure of alarm when the Speaker of the House influenced Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reeds inclusion on the Regional Transportation Roundtable Executive Committee. The Executive Committee members were democratically elected and the Speakers move appeared to disregard the will of the people's elected representatives. We were also surprised when you tasked the recent legislative special session to consider changing the TIA referendum date to November 2012.While greater voter participation is a worthy goal, it appeared that this single referendum was picked for a date change to favor special interests who would benefit from its passage. It was a further surprise when you offered $80 million from State funds to supplement designated monies for the proposed regional TIA sales tax allocation of the $180 million for the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority buses. Questions arise as to whether the State intends to fund transit for Metropolitan Atlanta in the future, and whether our State Republican leadership supports mass transit when a mere five percent of commuters choose that mode of transportation. We are concerned about the significant influence of the Metropolitan Atlanta Chamber of Commerce on our elected Republican State Officials. The Chamber of Commerce and the Atlanta Regional Commission, through the Transit Planning Board, Transit Implementation Board, and the current Regional Transit Committee, are steering the 10-county region toward the expansion of inordinately expensive, unsustainable mass transit projects that have consistently lost billions of dollars and are accumulating evergrowing maintenance deficits. The leadership at the Chamber of Commerce and the Regional Transit Committee has made no secret of wanting a regional transit authority that emulates Chicagos MTA, with its permanent regional tax-paid subsidies.

We are taking a keen interest in the legislative proposal being drafted by the Transit Governance Task Force, pursuant to your September 7, 2011 Executive Order. Georgians are especially wary of any transit streamlining measures that may perpetuate transits financial burdens or infringe on home rule by our counties and municipalities. Adding regional governance does not embrace the notion of limited government. In summary, we recognize the need to maintain and expand Georgias transportation infrastructure, but find serious flaws in how the Transportation Investment Act of 2010 is accomplishing that end. In practice, it has become a vehicle for the creation of an even larger mass transit system that will require a neverending, 10-county taxpayer subsidy to serve very few riders. Projects such as the Cumberland CID Rail, Beltline, and Midtown Trolleys, to name a few, are outrageously poor choices for citizens demanding cost-effective, highly beneficial, regional solutions. The new era of Republican control was supposed to put an end to such mindless largesse with our tax dollars. We firmly believe the Acts harsh financial penalties for voting against such projects are a contradiction to good governance. The hard-working base that made every primary election vote count needs the leadership we were promised. Thus far, we have found little to cheer about with the TIA and the elected officials who support it. Your most active constituents, SIGN NAME
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Cemetery Research Group End of Year Report

Friends of the CRG, We would like to wish everyone on our E-Mail list a Happy New Year! We have not been able to do any cemetery surveys lately due to some health problems; our senior researcher has just had surgery two days after Christmas. I too am dealing with some health issues. But we are planning on getting back out and doing some surveys as soon as possible. We are also planning some videos on how to get to some of the cemeteries and historic places around the County. We are gathering the technical equipment to do these driving videos. I have done a count on our web site and for the 2011 year we had about 18,000 people look at the site, this tells us that people are interested in the history and the cemeteries of Henry County Georgia our home. We have had professors in England tell us they use our site on Indians to teach their students about Native American Tribes. We have also had people from the National Geographic comment on how well a site we have on the Civil War. So as you can see people around the world are looking at Henry County and we will keep adding to the site as we can to keep you and the world interested in our little corner of the world. Happy New Year from the staff of the CRG. Alfred Britt Founder Dr. Mike Moon Senior Researcher

John Douglas 2012 Newton County Commission, District 1 With the announcement that Commissioner Mort Ewing will not seek reelection to the Newton County Commission in 2012, I am pleased to announce my candidacy as a Republican for the 1st District seat. Commissioner Ewing has been a huge part of the modernization and successes in Newton County and will be sorely missed in local government. Susan, Katherine and I wish him the very best and pray for the return of good health for his wife Faye. With the connections and background I will bring to the commission, my election will provide for the uninterrupted representation for the 1st District. There will be no let up of the hard

work and outstanding representation Mort Ewing has provided. There will be no on the job training needed for me beginning the day after the election. My years in the House of Representatives and Senate as well as the Newton County School Board puts me in a position to call on virtually any state or county leader . That experience will allow me to hit the ground running on day one to represent District 1 as it should be represented. Among the key issues facing the 1st district and Newton County are the following: 1. Higher taxes have never brought prosperity. I have never voted for any tax increase and will continue that record of fiscal responsibility on the commission. I am particularly opposed to any property tax increase. 2. I support the County Manager form of government. With Newton County now hosting a population of 100,000, the county manager is the most efficient, productive form of government. 3. I strongly support the land use plan for Newton County that keeps most of the 1st district in its current state. I also strongly support the current two acre minimum lot size for the east side of Newton County. When growth does return to our county, it must be managed in a way to ensure there is no negative impact on our quality of life. Few candidates can bring the level of government experience and rock solid conservative philosophy that I will have as a county commissioner. The following is a synopsis of the experience I have: 1977-1994, Career Army Officer. 1998-2002, Newton County School Board District 3; Chairman for calendar year 2002 2003-2005, Georgia House of Representatives District 73, the first Republican from Newton County ever elected to the Georgia House. 2005-2011, Georgia Senate District 17, the first Republican from Newton County ever elected to the Georgia Senate. Chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans, Military and Homeland Security for 6 years, member of key committees such as transportation, appropriations (budget), education, ethics, public safety and higher education. I am a native Georgian born in Albany, graduated from high school in DeKalb County, undergraduate degree in Political Science from North GA College and State University 1976, Master of American Studies from Mercer University, 1987, 3.9 GPA. My military education includes numerous schools culminating with the US Army Command and General Staff College, Ft Leavenworth, Kansas. In August 2012, the former Susan Stonecypher and I will celebrate 25 years of marriage. We have one daughter, Katherine, 20, who is a student at the Newton campus of Georgia Perimeter College and works full time. We attend Mt Pleasant United Methodist Church near the Hub junction. Working together, we can keep Newton County the crown jewel of the east metro. The quality of life we have here is the result of hard work on the part of our county employees and those who live here. I will work every day to ensure the residents of the 1st District have access to me as well as others in county government and that we are all responsive to their needs and concerns. I have taken great pride in being accessible and taking a hands on approach while in the other elected offices and I will bring that same work ethic to the commission. I encourage citizens to call me with their comments and concerns, 404-375-1234, email, jfdouglas@aol.com or facebook, John Douglas. I will never forget that they are who I represent and owe my successes to.

Thank you for your support!

YOUR VOICE
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REPUBLICAN WOMEN OF HENRY COUNTY

MEETING TUESDAY, JANUARY 10 - 6:30 PM AT THE GOLDEN CORRAL, JONESBORO RD, MCDONOUGH GUEST SPEAKER US CONGRESSMAN PAUL BROUN, DISTRICT 10. MEN ARE ELIGIBLE FOR ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP AND ARE ALWAYS WELCOME. BRING FAMILY AND FRIENDS.
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Columbus TEA Party Constitution Classes Wesley Lambertus is starting his series of classes on the US Constitution this Sunday, Jan 8th at 6:00 PM. Classes will be held at Morningside Baptist Church, education building (C) on Weems Rd side. Wesley goes through article by article and his class is very thorough. I have attended his classes twice, and I have learned how much I did not know in the process. General Meeting - Important North Columbus Library on Armour Rd, Saturday, January 21st, 4 PM. Library reservations are back on line, and we can resume use of the meeting rooms. Sandy Toth 706-569-8791

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How often do we hear what great deals are these public/private ventures, how we will make money in the future, and that government should bankroll private industry? Can anyone say BJ Mathis and Movie Studio? Read the entire article: http://www.ajc.com/business/georgia-ethanol-plant-sold-1289567.html

Georgia ethanol plant sold, at taxpayers' loss

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution The failed Range Fuels wood-to-ethanol factory in southeastern Georgia that sucked up $65 million in federal and state tax dollars was sold Tuesday for pennies on the dollar to another bio-fuel maker with equally grand plans to transform the alternative energy world. LanzaTech, a New Zealand-based biofuel company, paid $5.1 million for the plant in Soperton. Its main financial backer: Vinod Khosla, a California entrepreneur who also bankrolled Range Fuels, and helped secure its government loans, before Range went bust last year. LanzaTech hasn't received the same type of loans, but the company has received $7 million from the U.S. departments of Energy and Transportation to assist in the development of alternative fuels. The Range fiasco harkens other, failed renewable energy companies that received major taxpayer funding. California solar panel maker Solyndra got $535 million in federal loan guarantees. Beacon Power of Massachusetts, which makes energy-storage equipment, took in $43 million in federal money. Both filed for bankruptcy last year. Range cost U.S. taxpayers $64 million and Georgia taxpayers another $6.2 million. Tuesday's sale netted $5.1 million which will help offset losses suffered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Georgia's money, which paid for some of the ethanol-making equipment, won't be recouped outright, but state officials expect LanzaTech to use the machinery. Sam Shelton, director of research programs at Georgia Tech's Strategic Energy Institute, was long skeptical of Range Fuels' plans and technology. "It was too damn big a risk for an apparently unproven technology and the due diligence I personally performed on Range would not entice me to invest in it," Shelton said Wednesday. Shelton was invited by Range a few years back to check out its operation in Colorado where it was based. "Government should not be in the venture capital business selecting technologies," he added. Range was the alternative energy rage in 2007 when then-Gov. Sonny Perdue held a press conference to announce dot-com billionaire Khosla would help finance the $225 million wood-to-ethanol plant in economically depressed Treutlen County, 155 miles southeast of Atlanta. Later that year, at a groundbreaking in Soperton's industrial park, Perdue boasted that "Range Fuels represents a new future for our country." And Georgia, with its 24 million forested acres, would become world renowned for cellulosic ethanol which, conceivably, turns pine trees and scrap into fuel. The Bush administration's Energy Department steered a $76 million federal grant to Range. The Department of Agriculture followed up with an $80 million loan guarantee. Georgia officials pledged $6.2 million. Treutlen County, one of the state's poorest, offered 20 years worth of tax abatements and 97 acres in its industrial park. Private investors reportedly put up $158 million. In all, the project raised more than $320 million. Range, unable to turn wood into ethanol, closed its doors a year ago. It never came close to creating the 70 jobs once promised.

Economic Development?
David Pendered published his defense of the Transportation sales tax (T-SPLOST) in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on December 5, 2011. There are many points in his editorial that must be critiqued. You can read it at this link.
http://saportareport.com/blog/2011/12/georgia%E2%80%99s-economic-malaise-transportation-sales-tax-is-only-fix-insight/

Mr. Pendered stated; Next years transportation sales tax referendum appears to be the only hope for addressing any of the challenges facing Georgias economic development. This depends on your meaning of economic development. If you believe that economic development is the cooperation of government in human capital and infrastructure promoting growth then T-SPLOST is not going to work. Removing billions of dollars of after-tax wealth from the private sector and transferring it into a new government bureaucracy will do nothing to improve real economic development for Georgians. Government spending crowds out private capital, because it removes real wealth from the economy. -- Bill Simon

What we need in our President http://www.newt.org/solutions

Prime Minister Julia Gillard - Australia

Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia, as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks. Separately, Gillard angered some Australian Muslims on Wednesday by saying she supported spy agencies monitoring the nation's mosques. Quote: 'IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT... Take It Or Leave It. I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali , we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians.' 'This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom.' 'We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society, learn the language!' 'Most Australians believe in God. This is not some Christian, right wing, political push, but a fact, because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture.' 'We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why. All we ask is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us.' 'This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this. But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our Christian beliefs, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great Australian freedom, 'THE RIGHT TO LEAVE'.' 'If you aren't happy here then LEAVE. We didn't force you to come here. You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted.'

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