Sheila is a very nice person and I wish her a wonderful future.

There are some points that have to be raised. First, where has Sheila been? David Barlow has been in the trenches week after week for years battling the Frady-Hearn-Horgan majority on the Board of Commissioners. Sheila has not sat through an entire meeting the since she qualified to run. After she wound up in the runoff, she missed workshop meeting the same week.

When Jack Smith and Mayor Ken Steele lied to us about not supporting mass transit in Fayette County, David Barlow worked tirelessly to get them out of office and the voters responded. Steele spoke out in favor of the TSPLOST and ridiculed me and people like David Barlow who fought the deal. The voters responded, again.

I asked David Barlow to tape our meetings and post them so people could see what is going on. He did it a no charge. I asked David Barlow to drive hundreds of miles all over metro Atlanta to video tape the TSPLOST debates and forums so the people in the metro area could see and hear for themselves what was going on. He gladly did this for everyone without complaint at his own personal expense.

Seriously, ask what has Sheila Huddleston done? She never voiced an opinion on anything until weeks AFTER qualified to run for the seat. You know the adage about your actions speaking louder than your words. Barlow is chock full of action and Huddleston has no actions and did not even utter a word until after she qualified to run.

Everybody is now talking about the disturbing alliance between Sheila Huddleston and incumbent Lee Hearn.

Lee Hearn's record is very clear: 1. As the county's Public Works Director, he was written up for poor performance on numerous occasions. He was severely reprimanded for misuse of a county credit card in order to thwart county procedure. He resigned in light of what many believed would be his inevitable termination.

2. Hearn has consistently supported deficit spending. To make matters worse, he has actually voted to increase expenditures when revenues were drifting down.

3. Hearn is one of the most ardent supporters on building the West Fayetteville Bypass. The road to nowhere has wasted tens of millions of our tax dollars. (It was Hearn, as Public Works Director, who said the East Fayetteville Bypass was our number one priority, but he kept pushing the West Fayetteville Bypass as an elected official.) It was later found out that Hearn's relatives own a large number of acres of undeveloped land near the West Fayetteville Bypass.

4. The Board was presented with a resolution to ask that Fayette County be removed from all regional and state mass transit plans. Lee Hearn along with Commissioners Frady and Horgan voted it down.

5. Hearn voted in favor of items that NEVER appeared on a public meeting agenda - keeping the public in the dark. One item was a tower lease that had five years remaining on the current contract. The new lease was not bid out and it was worth in the neighborhood of $1 million. Hearn voted in favor of pay raise for employees that did not appear on an agenda. That pay raises came at a time when the county was deficit spending and pulling funds from the reserves just to meet obligations.

6. For the last five years, the county has paid the administrative, equipment and other Fire Service costs from the general fund. This is in direct contradiction to the fire district agreements made with the Peachtree City and Fayetteville. In an act of desperation, Hearn made the comment that everything was funded from Fire Fund - which was true, after it was transferred from the general fund.

7. Hearn had a chance to de-fund the West Fayetteville Bypass and use the funds for county debt and tax relief, but he voted it down.

8. Hearn appointed one of his relatives to the Board of Elections to oversee his re-election bid. He lied to the public at a commission meeting, say the relative was "a friend of his from church."

Sheila Huddleston has made it very clear she is supporting the Hearn team and has aligned her campaign with the Hearn campaign. Is this what you want for the next four years?

We know what we had for the last four years did not work and was not in the best interest of the citizens. Repeating those mistakes for another four years would be ridiculous.

In responding to how to promote economic development in Fayette County, candidate Huddleston said in paragraph 2 "We need to be innovative and come up with a new plan, by revising he Land Use Plan and figuring out how far we are from being competitive." Then she said "by following the Land Use Plan that was adopted in 1985, Fayette County will not only have the opportunity to manage its growth in a manner that will accomodate future need, but will maintain the unique character of Fayette County."

While she praises the 1985 Land Use Plan, she says it needs to be revised, but is not specific as to exactly how she would revise it.

In paragraph 3, she says that the county needs to reduce taxes, but provides no specific method to do so.

In paragraph 4, Ms. Huddleston says that we need to go back to the guidelines of the Land Use Plan, but she implies that she is referring to the Land Use Plan, since she makes no mention of any specific revisions.

Finally, in paragraph 5, she says what all voters want to hear "Keeping taxes low to bring either new business into our community or to help the small business person open and start a new business is key." Again, no formula on how to reduce taxes, much less, without reducing services.

If Ms. Huddleston would come up with innovative, specific ideas as to how the Land Use Plan should be revised rather than referring to following the 1985 plan, voters could get some idea as to where she stands. Also, there are many specific issues that could be discussed instead of generically reducing taxes. The county has many different budgetary areas...public safety, public works, water department, spending wastes, etc.,

Gosh Peter, I would have thought a person with Sheila's qualifications could figure out how to sign in and post her own comments. Lucky for her that she has you as her campaign manager to guide her in such difficult and confusing matters.

Now, since she and you cherry-picked only one small segment of our dialogue, I will post all of it so that everyone can see how evasive and non-responsive Sheila has been in all our attempts to find out just who she is and why did she decide to run for a seat on the Board of Commissioners.

Hopefully, Cal Beverly and Pat Cooper will weigh in on on this matter.

We deserve to know who the candidates are and what they stand for in order that we gain an informed decision about them.

We know virtually nothing about Sheila Huddleston and that troubles me and a lot of others that I know.

More to follow Peter!

Jim Richter

Redacted copy of complaint electronically filed with the Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission 8/5/12.

Sheila Huddleston, a Peachtree City attorney admitted to the Georgia Bar in 2010, is in a run-off election to be held on 8/21/12 for Post 2 of the Fayetteville Board of Commissioners.

According to information contained on your campaign commission website, she has failed to file campaign finance reports for the calendar year 2011 which was due 6/14/12, and a report due 6/30/12. She has been fined twice for this omission - your invoice dated August 2, 2012.

Because of her failure to file campaign reports, the citizens of Fayette County have been denied their right to determine who is supporting her candidacy and other important information. Furthermore, there is virtually no information available about her - see her campaign website http://electsheilahuddleston.com/contact.html

Her place of employment information is: Huddleston Law Group LLC, P.O. Box 2101, Peachtree City, Ga. 30269.

The run-off election date is fast approaching and we may not be able to discover anything about her candidacy because she has failed to file required reports in accordance with Georgia statutes.

On behalf of the citizens of Fayette County, I urge you to contact her and demand that she immediately comply with the disclosure laws.

I have completed your Complaint Form and will have it notarized and sent to you by regular mail on Monday August 6, 2012.

Respectfully,

Jim Richter

On another subject, I find it very interesting that Sheila Huddleston, Scott Hollowell and Susan Stopford joined the Fayette County Republican Party ON THE SAME DAY, 6/20/12. Now, that is not just a coincidence in my opinion.

Neither I nor anyone else I know, remembers ever seeing any of these three individuals at a GOP function, county commissioner meeting or budget session before 6/20/12. Did they all have an epiphany experience on the same day?

At the commissioners debate in Fayetteville, I heard Ms. Huddleston speak out against the West Bypass and transportation issues. I have not heard how she differs on more specific issues from fellow candidates Oddo, Ognio, and Barlow. To me, she seemed to be focusing on generalities. The WFB and transportation issues were part of the 2010 campaign platforms of Commissioners Brown and McCarty. What she needs to do is specifically point out where she is unique and different on current county problems where she has new ideas. Otherwise,she will simply be taking votes away from those candidates, forcing a runoff election.