Commission candidate Smith: ‘A more intelligent choice’
Thursday, July 5, 2012 - 3:18pm
Submitted by Letters to the ...
Submitted by Letters to the ...
Former Fayette County Commission Chairman Jack Smith announced he was giving the voters a more intelligent choice as Commissioner for Post 2 which is being vacated by retiring Commissioner Herb Frady.
Jack cited his love of the county which has afforded him so many opportunities over the last 30 years, his desire to maintain the Fayette County way of life he has come to love and enjoy, and a fear of the lack of financial experience and skilled leadership shown by the other candidates as part of his driving factors to seeking public office again.
Jack and his wife, Lael, have been residents of Fayette County since 1982 where they raised two sons who both attended and graduated from McIntosh. Jack believes other long-term residents of the county will agree there is no finer place to raise a family and all want to be sure that same atmosphere is still present as our children begin to raise their own sons and daughters hopefully in the same Fayette County atmosphere.
Smith previously served as chairman of the County Commission during the tumultuous years 2007-2010 as the local and national economies were beginning their rapid decline. Smith said those four years were not only some of the most challenging and rewarding, but they required all of the skills he had honed over his career including organization, personnel, management, finance, mediation and negotiation to properly oversee a budget of seventy million and an employed staff of over 700.
Jack continued stating the voters would ultimately determine who would serve them, but he hoped his education, being a Certified Public Accountant, his many years in governmental accounting and auditing, as well as his four years as chairman of the Fayette County Commission, would give voters a clear choice of experience he believes is necessary to ensure Fayette County has the best possible leadership to weather the economic decline being faced by all of us.
During Smith’s years as Chairman, the County budget was reduced $7 million and the county accumulated $10 million in surplus (spending that much less than the already reduced budget).
Smith believes he and the other serving commissioners represented the original Tea Party mantra of less government and less government spending by actually making the hard choices and doing so in a way that resulted in the maintaining of high levels of service with no tax increases. They didn’t just aspire to that goal, they actually accomplished it on behalf of Fayette County citizens.
Under Smith’s leadership as commission chairman, accomplishments included the start of the long-delayed Lake McIntosh, rebuilding trust and cooperation among city and county leaders, moving Fayette County into a regional leadership position, fostering public private projects such as the Fayette Mental Health Center, and presiding over a massive overhaul of internal operations and infrastructures to deliver services to Fayette citizens more effectively and efficiently.
Jack has a history of community volunteerism, having served as president of both the Optimist and Rotary clubs, as well as the Chamber of Commerce, and has held other leadership and advisor positions to numerous other charitable and religious organizations including Boy Scouts, the Joseph Sams School, a long term-stint as treasurer of his church and chairman of the church administrative council for successive terms.
In fact, Jack’s dedication to his community was honored by the Georgia Society of CPAs as the recipient of its annual Public Service Award for 2009, by the Civic League for Regional Atlanta as its recipient of the award for Regional Excellence for 2011 and by the Fayette Chamber of Commerce as the Outstanding Business Person of the Year for 2011. These are just a sampling of the awards he has won over the course of his career in service to others.
Jack firmly believes because of his compassion for Fayette County, his dedication to public service, and his experience and qualifications, he is the smarter choice for the voters and welcomes the opportunity to discuss all of the issues in this upcoming election cycle.
For more information or to help with his campaign contact Jack via email at electjacksmithcpa@gmail.com.
Jack Smith
Candidate for Post 2, Fayette County Commission
Peachtree City, Ga.
Wed, 07/25/2012 - 6:12pm
#2
Didn't We Already tell you NO Once Jack?
I guess we the tax paying citizens of Fayette County didn't make ourselves clear to you the last time you ran for office.
We said NO to you and steele and the wheel chair dude with the smart mouth. We said no to all of you for the same reasons. It was based on the content of your character, your lack of a moral compass, and the fact that all of you voted for projects most of us don't want. When you lose this time just go away.
Wed, 07/25/2012 - 5:12pm
#3
What is it wih all these people who write about themselves in
the third person ala Jack Smith's Letter to the Editor above? This practice (technical term: Illeism) is usually used by youngsters like three year old Bobby, as in "Bobby likes ice cream". Hopefully within a year or two Bobby has learned to pose this statement correctly "I like ice cream." In the letters and posts we see is it a case of arrested development, overblown ego, illusions of grandeur, etc.? Whatever the reason, it is annoying to the reader. I would find it hard to cast a vote for someone who continually referred to themself in the third person.
Wed, 07/25/2012 - 5:45pm
#4
mymite...you is too funny
"it is annoying to the reader".....how many persons is there in you?:)
Wed, 07/25/2012 - 6:55pm
#5
mlc, Mytmite be speaking for the masses. Mytmite is sure that
the majority of her fellow bloggers feel the same way, ergo, Mytmite took the liberty of using the term "the reader' to encompass all of her dear friends such as yourself. Mytmite hopes she hasn't presumed too much.
As for how many persons are in there with Mytmite, she is many faceted as those who know her would gladly testify. In fact if Sybil of the many personalities met her she would blush to think she had the audacity to tout herself as having more personalities than anyone. Mytmite wishes to apologize in advance if she has tweaked your sensibilities with her euphemistic use of 'the reader'. Mea Culpa.
Wed, 07/25/2012 - 3:35pm
#6
Oh please. Spare us!
Hi! On behalf of Jack Smith, who is running for re-election to the Fayette County Board of Commissioners, things could be a lot worse. Re-elect him and he will prove it!
Wed, 07/25/2012 - 3:22pm
#7
Oh, please spare us!
Hi! On behalf of Jack Smith, who is running for re-election to the Fayette County Board of Commissioners, things could be a lot worse. Re-elect him and he will prove it!
Jim Richter
Tue, 07/24/2012 - 12:29pm
#8
memo to Dan Langford, Mayor of Brooks
Dan,
I dislike robocalls. I'd put them right up there on my list of dislikes at about #3 or #4.
Your robocall to my house this morning to tell me you are "gravely concerned about the future of Fayette County" in one sentence, then in the next sentence you tell me "men like Jack Smith, Lee Hearn and Robert Horgan are men of good character and who I trust completely."
Danny, that statement tells me more about you than I ever knew, which was zilch. You would have been better off with zilch, since now you've gone into negative territory with this judgement call you've made.
Don't call me again, Danny.
Tue, 07/24/2012 - 4:30pm
#9
MLC, Brooks Mayor & Robo calls
Add my disgust to MLCs. Personally, if I was a citizen of Brooks, I would be concerned about the future of Brooks, as my Mayor is clearly unable to consider prior performance history of former and current Commissioners and reach any sort of sensible conclusion! Wouldn't get my vote again. Oh,neither did his 3 recommendations.
Tue, 07/24/2012 - 1:47pm
#10
Haddix: Mayor Langford
In placing me on the RTR, the Mayors of Brooks and Woolsey voted against me.
In my removal they voted against me along with Ken Steele. They were urged to do so by Learnard, who is pro TSPLOST and rail, Fleisch and Imker. All are pro ARC and spook highly of Steele and listened to such as Smith.
Hope all have noticed the silence from them on the TSPLOST. Except for Learnard's non supportive support voiced on the Dais during a Council Meeting and Langford's robocalls.
As well, they were behind the scenes pushing from the Councilmembers and others to vote Mayor Eric Dial onto the ARC.
He says he is anti-TSPLOST and rail, but it appears he is backing the Regional Transit Committee in his votes. He also, as a Councilman, voted for my removal from the RTR, thus supporting Steele.
A lot of political games are going on behind the scenes. A lot of political positions not being made public.
I do not know the two ladies who are running. But I have talked Barlow, Ognio and Oddo, plus his brother. Obviously, I know a lot about Smith, Hearn and Horgan.
Ognio, Barlow and Oddo are businessmen. They are honest and plain spoken. They are not into games like others mentioned in this post. They are down to earth and very pro Fayette. I like those attributes.
There is a lot on the line this election. Staying the course and even moving backwards is not what we need.
Tue, 07/24/2012 - 2:36pm
#11
Haddix: The rest of the RTR story
It wasn't a Mayor here or a politician there, it was every City Council in Fayette County that voted to recommend your removal from RTR. PTC, Tyrone, Fayetteville, Brooks, Woolsey all voted the same way in recommending you be replaced. I imagine a lot of the same councilmembers will be voting against the TSPLOST themselves but saw no reason to not have an interested and logical participant in the discussion regardless.
PTC voters get their chance November 2013 to vote you off of City Council, though at least the other 4 have already done a decent job of rendering you useless.
Tue, 07/24/2012 - 4:34pm
#12
Haddix: Finish it NUK
How many of those who supported it lost their reelection bids? In Fayetteville, all gone.
Smith is gone.
Steele, your logical and interested participant is gone.
The vote to remove was a 3 vote, not a five, among the Mayors.
The others who supported it and are still in office don't talk about that vote any more.
As for the others doing a decent job, from what I hear the two up for reelection are in big trouble.
So, yes, get the facts out there.
Enough said.
Tue, 07/24/2012 - 5:34pm
#13
So It Is Mr Mayor...
...And next election YOU will be gone.
Regarding the vote of county mayors, half the vote total supporting you was your vote. That, Mr Mayor is a fact you seem to ignore.
Yes, you will be gone, not because of TSPLOST or any county-wide issue, but because of the total lack of integrity you have displayed. Fact is, you are well over your head and an embarrassment to Peachtree City. To deny this only demonstrates your delusional mindset.
$10,000.00, wish to comment?
Tue, 07/24/2012 - 1:54pm
#14
Mayor Haddix
I've always liked you and agree. There is a lot going on in the background and a lot of string pulling. People need to be very carefull about getting sucked in.
"Hope all have noticed the silence from them on the TSPLOST".
I have.
Tue, 07/24/2012 - 1:50pm
#15
Robocalls an invasion of my privacy
I resent those calls.
So the mayor of Brooks has not only beat the drums for Smith, Hollowell(Smola), now he is endorsing Jack Smith, Lee Hearn and Robert Horgan!
Wow, the people of Brooks must be soooo proud. But then again, that is where all the developers (Smith) and the other very rich live. They like to carve up little places like Tyrone (Smith) but LIVE in Brooks. Remember the sewer deal in Tyrone a few years ago? Lack of it is what saved Tyrone from being carved up even more. The Smith's still hold sizable hunks of Tyrone bussiness areas. Now it seems the little Tyrone school is being told that the only thing that will save it is if sewer is run through the middle of Tyrone. Wow! I wonder if the Smiths real estate will go up in value if sewer is run through town? Funny. never heard of a sewer problem there before.
So the people of Brooks want their uncrowded schools and town, but make their money off carving up the rest of the county! "Not in OUR backyard" should be their new town slogan!
Tue, 07/24/2012 - 7:20am
#16
Don't get "Jack'd" around for another four years
Jack Smith is the same former Fayette County commission chairman who organized Commissioners Hearn, Horgan, and the five mayors to propose aNd then back a five year sales tax increase for nice-to-have projects during this recession. The most glaring was having you pay off about $55m of debt on the Justice Center- which will be used for years to come by generations who should also contribute to it's costs.
Alert citizens defeated the bloated Smith-Hearn-Horgan-etc. pork bill by a huge 3:1 majority. We certainly don't need more of their kind of tax & spend thinking on our next Board of Commissioners.
Tue, 07/24/2012 - 10:02am
#17
No one is going to take Jack Smith seriously
I mean, we just got him ...OUT.... of office. Smith, Hearn, Horgan and Terrie Smith and Smola, in my eyes have been for developers and big business.
We need someone for us.
Tue, 07/24/2012 - 8:20am
#18
"Jacked Off" by Arrogant Smith
It amazes me how Smith and his cronies think they are "smarter" than everyone else.
Citizen Bob is absolutely right in pointing to Smith's centerpiece achievement as a Chamber of Commerce hack--- the Taj Mahal Courthouse. Few people know that Smith designed it originally with a puppet committee. Smith was pushed around by the judges and was later surprised when they pushed him around like a rag doll during budget talks. Now, he says "he hasn't made up his mind" on the TSPLOST, transportation tax. That's because he is bound by all of his soul to do what the ARC/Atlanta Chamber crowd orders him to do. No thanks, Jack.
Smith won't listen to anyone. Being a Commissioner is listening to your constituents. Being a Commissioner means making meetings more open and not less open.
Arrogance is the state of overestimating your own value or importance. That would be Jack Smith ! No thank you !
Sun, 07/22/2012 - 5:20pm
#19
Be sure and read Jim Richters article on unsustainable pensions
Jack Smith, while in office, with the assistance of Commissioners Hearn and Horgan got the curent defined benefits pension plan approved with Commissioner Frady's opposition. Hall County is going bankrupt with defined benefits pensions. Read Mr. Jim Richter's current letter to the editor that documents how this plan will be unsustainable and can bankrupt Fayette County (the taxpayers) if it is not replaced. It will be well worth your time. And while you are at it, you should consider the continuing trend that Hearn and Horgan always follow the Commission Chairman with their votes on major issues. That way, they and Commssion Chairman Frady have been able to block the efforts of Commissioners Brown and McCarty when they try and stand up for their constituents.
Yes, Mr. Smith did get an award for excellence by the Civic League of Regional Atlanta, but in the last election his constituents didn't think so much of his performance in Fayette County.
Sun, 07/22/2012 - 12:02pm
#20
Do not vote for Jack Smith
Jack, who talks about himself in the third person in his letter, is not your "intelligent" choice.
Jack began the process of de-funding the county's Fire Districts (the funds that assure a fire truck and firefighters show up to your fire). As a "smart" budgeting move, five years ago, Jack and his allies began not adding revenue to the Fire Districts to keep the system going. For the last five years, the Fire Funds have not funded operations, vehicles, etc. When emergencies arose, funds were pulled from the general fund, in direct violation of the tax equity rationale which created the districts in the first place; thus, he was cheating Fayetteville and Peachtree City.
Jack stopped funding the vehicle purchasing cycle, setting up huge problems later on. Maintenance went neglected.
Jack still is on the board of the developer bank and he said ONLY HE will decide if he has a conflict of interest between his government zoning, variances and land planning powers and the loans his bank lends to the developers who benefit from those government decisions.
Jack gave a large manufacturer in Fayette County hefty tax breaks and then took an all-expense paid luxury trip to Asia paid for by the same corporation in violation of state law.
At the same time he was deficit spending with deficit budgets, Jack decided to give the county employees a pay raise without the revenue to cover the expense.
Jack re-routed the county's transportation construction plans and began wasting tens of million of our taxpayer dollars on the West Fayetteville Bypass. The beneficiaries of the bypass are local developers who gained free road frontage at our expense.
Jack tried to sneak a list of boondoggle projects past the voters in the 2009 County SPLOST, but the voters got wise and killed the measure by a 3-to-1 margin.
Jack said he would not support mass transit in Fayette County and yet he voted in favor of every regional plan that included mass transit buses and trains in our county.
I would not call his actions "intelligent" at all. I would call them "bad for the citizens of Fayette County."
Mon, 07/23/2012 - 12:50pm
#21
istilldontknow - Jack Smith is a bad choice
istilldontknow,
I agree with you that a majority of the Board of Commissioners was required to do all those harmful things to the citizens of Fayette County.
He was the leader (elected by that majority of commissioners) of the majority.
We removed Smith, Eric Maxwell, and soon Robert Horgan and Lee Hearn. Yes, we are purposefully dismantling the majority who made all of the bad decisions.
As for Jack Smith's position on the developer bank board, those are private meetings at the bank. We are not subject to their records. Smith should have resigned from the bank board to ensure the integrity of the county government. He chose not to do so.
Sun, 07/22/2012 - 8:23pm
#22
Jack versus the Board
here, let me fix a couple of these things for you (remember, don't mislead!)
A majority of the BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS began the process of de-funding the county's Fire Districts (the funds that assure a fire truck and firefighters show up to your fire). As a "smart" budgeting move, five years ago, Jack and his allies began not adding revenue to the Fire Districts to keep the system going. For the last five years, the Fire Funds have not funded operations, vehicles, etc. When emergencies arose, funds were pulled from the general fund, in direct violation of the tax equity rationale which created the districts in the first place; thus, he was cheating Fayetteville and Peachtree City.
A majority of the BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS stopped funding the vehicle purchasing cycle, setting up huge problems later on. Maintenance went neglected.
Jack still is on the board of the developer bank and he said ONLY HE will decide if he has a conflict of interest between his government zoning, variances and land planning powers and the loans his bank lends to the developers who benefit from those government decisions.
Correct. If he doesn't recuse himself from actions, and he is caught, he'll have to answer legally for that.
A majority of the BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS and the Fayette County Development Authority gave a large manufacturer in Fayette County hefty tax breaks and then Jack took an all-expense paid luxury trip to Asia paid for by the same corporation in violation of state law.
Oh, wait, did the violation of state law get reported, investigated and prosecuted? I must have missed that. This article says that PTC officials paid for their airfare; did Fayette County's? http://archive.thecitizen.com/node/31410
At the same time A majority of the BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS was deficit spending with deficit budgets, A majority of the BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS decided to give the county employees a pay raise without the revenue to cover the expense.
A majority of the BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS re-routed the county's transportation construction plans and began wasting tens of million of our taxpayer dollars on the West Fayetteville Bypass. The beneficiaries of the bypass are local developers who gained free road frontage at our expense.
Well, it sure did help me get out of my subdivision faster with that traffic light. Call me a developer!
A majority of the BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS tried to sneak a list of boondoggle projects past the voters in the 2009 County SPLOST, but the voters got wise and killed the measure by a 3-to-1 margin.
An nobody sneaked nothing by no one, sir!
Jack said he would not support mass transit in Fayette County and yet he voted in favor of every regional plan that included mass transit buses and trains in our county.
Oh, got me on that one. But wasn't it one vote? And he still said he wouldn't support it, even after he voted for it. He said he didn't want to completely close the door in case it was ever needed in the future.
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"Lack of honesty", where honesty is a fairness and straightforwardness of conduct or adherence to the facts. Yep, I believe that you meet the definition of lack of honesty by referring the decisions above solely to Mr. Smith when it was not him alone that did most any of the things you asset above.
You don't lie, Steve. You mislead - to lead in a wrong direction or into a mistaken action or belief often by deliberate deceit.
Sun, 07/22/2012 - 4:29am
#23
Intelligent choice, say what?
The only intelligent choice Mr. Smith could make is to accept the fact that the citizens didn't want him re-elected in 2010 and we certainly don't want him re-elected in 2012.
We have had more than enough of his good ole' boys politics. He had his romp in the sun and should just hit the road Jack!
To gain an understanding of just how awful Jack Smith’s record as Chairman was until the citizens had enough in 2010 and kicked him out of office, read my four letters to the editor in the Citizen entitled: (1) Smith, Hearn and Horgan are simply blowing smoke (2) How did we let this spending happen? (3) Didn’t Jack Smith get voters message in ’10?, and (4) Smith, Hearn and Horgan saddled taxpayers with unsustainable pension payments.
I would have to say, we certainly can't afford anymore of Jack Smith’s intelligent choices.
Jim Richter
Sat, 07/21/2012 - 2:06pm
#24
With Jack Smith...
... all you have to remember is that two years ago he said that HE WOULD DECIDE when he had a conflict between his commissioner position and his developer bank board position.
That is what you are dealing with ... vote for David Barlow.
Sun, 07/22/2012 - 8:25pm
#25
well....
....if a vote comes up about the PTC Dog Park, won't you the one who decides if you can make decisions on it or not? Or issues related to Planterra Ridge, or Booth PTO, or anything else you may have a decision making capacity or stake in?
Sat, 07/21/2012 - 1:55pm
#26
Presumptive arrogant Jack Smith
After the GOP commissioner candidates forum this week, Jack Smith was overheard telling two people that after he is elected he will make sure Steve Brown never serves as chairman of the board of commissioners.
I have met my share of presumtive arrogant jerks in my lifetime, but Jack Smith is in a class all my himself.
Jim Richter
Fri, 07/06/2012 - 4:50pm
#27
No Reruns Jack!
Nuff said.
Fri, 07/06/2012 - 4:08pm
#28
Jack Smith
There is an old saying concerning accountants. Figures lie and liars figure. No one can predict what a final cost will be for a defined benifit plan, not three companies and not Mr. Smith. If a plan is properly funded it will always work. I think every company and State that had a defined benifit plan were aware of that requirement. It is easy to overfund the plan in the early stages (no one is taking money out) but underfunding comes about when companies and politicians see a better use of the money needed to properly fund the plan. With the early retirement option offered to County employees the 10 year cost to taxpayers will be over $20,000,000. This is being taken from reserves because there is not enough money in the plan to cover this expenditure, so technically the fund is already underfunded. Add additional retirements over the next ten years and it requires more money. Mr. Smith is selling smoke and the taxpayer cannot get its arms around it. Mr. Barlow will never talk about himself in the third person and he will not present Pomzi schemes. Vote early and vote for Barlow.
Thu, 07/05/2012 - 11:26pm
#29
Jack Smith was a budget guru?
Tell me, if Jack was so darn good at managing money for us, and the budget was at 70 million dollars (according to him above) in 2010 when he was voted out, then why did this current BOC just vote (4-1 yes, Brown voting no) for an 80.8 million dollar budget last week, while having at least 35 fewer long time employees (that just got a full blown sweetheart early retirement package)? I don't know how many fewer employees there are now, but there are 35 that aren't there any more, as of this week.
I doubt the tax digest has dropped the difference of 80.8 and 70 million (about 10.8 million less?)in two years.
So, some more 3rd person campaigning is due, Jack. Please have your alter ego explain how this can be, if you left the money in such good shape for us.
And moving Fayette County into a "regional leadership position"? Just spit it out, Jack. You are an ARC yes-man and what you don't get is that this is why you are where you are today.
Sun, 07/22/2012 - 8:46pm
#30
Jack Smith - budget guru
Maybe someone can explain this to me?
overall revenues 2009 = $96,307,300
overall expenses 2009 = $90,525,801
surplus approximately $6 million
overall revenues 2010 = $90,648,801
overall expenses 2010 = $90,925,922
deficit approximately $300K
source - http://www.fayettecountyga.gov/finance/CAFR/FINALCAFR2010.pdf, page 23
overall revenues 2011 = $83,150,628
overall expenses 2011 = $84,249,280
deficit approximately $1.1 million
(Jack Smith out of office 6 months at this point)
source - http://www.fayettecountyga.gov/finance/CAFR/FINALCAFR2011.pdf, page 23
estimated revenues 2012 = $74,013,121
estimated expenses 2012 = $89,383,178
deficit approximately $15 million
estimated revenues 2013 (w/o transfers) = $72,137,926
estimated expenses 2013 (w/o transfers) = $80,854,817
deficit approximately $8 million
source - http://www.fayettecountyga.gov/finance/budget2013/FY2013-Budget-Adopted-..., pages 6 and 7
You tell me who the "budget experts" are...I know this doesn't help the incumbents, for sure, but I don't know if you can pin Jack Smith on a $30 million swing - you can, however, blame the economy on a loss in revenue of $23 million in 5 years and see that the government did a reduction in expenses (with a big exception last year) of $10 million in the same period....do you think the county can find another $13 million to cut!
Sat, 07/21/2012 - 2:15pm
#31
On Jack Smith
Moelarrycurly,
You are leaving out the part about his de-funding the County Fire Districts to the point where fire administration, vehicles, etc. had to be paid out of the general fund for the last five years.
They also did not do vehicle purchases or facility maintenance for years leaving it crash on our heads in future years. Smith then took all the funds he did not use for essential needs and spent it on an employee pay raise without the revenue to cover it.
Jack Smith wasted tens of millions of our tax dollars on the West Fayetteville Bypass to aid his larger developer/land speculator supporters.
Sun, 07/22/2012 - 9:35pm
#32
Steve Brown - deferred road maintenance?
Wasn't there also deferred road maintenance in the equation?
Sun, 07/22/2012 - 11:02pm
#33
MajorMike, Deferred Road Maintenance
It seems to me that the crumbling culverts under certain Fayette County roads could be classified as "deferred road maintenance."
I know that roads had to be closed to emergency vehicles and school busses because the culverts were to the point of collapsing.
Jack Smith should have fixed those culverts but didn't.
Sat, 07/21/2012 - 3:27pm
#34
If there is any more
campaigning done by Jack Smith at the podium at the Comm. meeting this Thursday, I will file a complaint with the state. To have him stand there at the last meeting and brag about all he "accomplished" was a waste of meeting time. And for Herb Frady to allow him to continue his little campaign speech and not call him out of order was a purely an endorsement on his part.
Sat, 07/21/2012 - 8:23pm
#35
AtHomeGym, Lee Hearn Doing Business in Oklahoma
If you want to know what kind of businessman Lee Hearn is read page 8 of this link; http://www.ok.gov/pels/documents/PELS%20Newsletter%20July-December%20201...
That will tell you what happened when he did business in Oklahoma in 2010.
Sat, 07/21/2012 - 11:47pm
#36
Ginga, Hearn & Business In OK
Yeah, I've seen that before--I don't think that qualifies him as an "honest businessman" as Smith indicated in his robo-phone call. However,in fairness,I also know that there are many engineering projects that can be done without a stamp from a licensed Engineer. But obviously, OK thought it necessary to issue some sort of discipline. I know this because I happen to have a Son who is a licensed PE in Montana and Wyoming, but he has done numerous projects in multiple states operating under a simple Business License in Montana that did not require a stamp. I would still not call him a "businessman" and I don't think he would characterize himself as that either. Just more political BS.
Sat, 07/21/2012 - 3:33pm
#37
MLC & Campaigning
Got one of those unsolicited phone calls today from Jack Smith, trying to say I should vote for honest, solid businessmen, Smith,Horgan, & Hearn. Just what kind of businessman is Hearn? Too late Jack, I voted already and not for any of you 3!
Sat, 07/21/2012 - 3:54pm
#38
ahg
I've been getting robo calls for the PSC position. If you read today's AJC, that job is just as corrupted as about anything out there. Read, "donors have stake in utilities" on the ajc home page. Enough, already!
SHH....Smith, Horgan and Hearn....SHH....that's what we're going to do, shh them up!!:)
Thu, 07/05/2012 - 8:47pm
#39
Funny how Jack talks about
Funny how Jack talks about himself in the third person, if you're going to let someone else to write your letters Jack, why not let them sign them too.
Thu, 07/05/2012 - 9:47pm
#40
Hutch, there seems to be a lot of that going around. Drake does
that also. Think it is a superiority complex at work? Sort of like royalty referring to themselves in the third person.
Thu, 07/05/2012 - 11:30pm
#41
Sorry, Jack Smith, but if a "more intelligent choice"
(Jack's words in title of article above) were to run for the same office he was voted out of, he would be addressing the reason voters voted him out, not bragging about what he did before he was voted out.
I mean, where has he been since being voted out? Has he come out publicly and admitted he wasn't good enough (in the voter's minds) to get re-elected as an incumbent? Has he come out and told us that he realizes that what the voters wanted was a different course than one he led us on, and now he understands that. Has he agreed to change his ways to what the voters want? Do you see any of that in his letter above? I don't. I read a letter from someone who still thinks he did nothing wrong and the voters were mistaken in voting him out.
Really, Jack? You think you were right and all those who voted you out were wrong? If anything, Jack, the last few years have just proven that the voters didn't finish cleaning house, and in this election the rest will follow you.
No hard feelings, you had your chance, but we really don't want to go back there. Such is life, accept it and move on.
Thu, 07/05/2012 - 8:53pm
#42
A little advice Jack
Jack, G35 thinks you should proof read your letters before you sign and post them.
I checked online with the Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission and there is no record of Dean Howard and Mike Hofrichter having filed
an RO form (a registration form for a committee other than a candidate).
If anyone else besides those two individuals contributed money or anything of value for the full page ad attacking the Take Back Fayette County Tea Party, Harold Bost, Bob Ross or any of the candidates, Barlow, Ognio or Oddo, they are in deep trouble!
Anyone can go online and check to see if what I said is true.
My “Concerned Citizens of Fayette County” is a properly registered PAC and the registration number is NC2012000064.
Jim Richter