Hit Back At Their Wallets
Since the Gwinnett County Commissioners seemed to have no problem dipping into taxpayer wallets for the next 30 years to subsidize the Atlanta Braves farm team, I think Gwinnett taxpayers should hit back at their wallets.
Chairman Charles Bannister appears to be retired from business – let’s retire him from government as well this November.
Unfortunately, oppostition comes from Lorraine Green attempting to move from District 1 rep to Chairman. Ms. Green is environmental engineer and president of her own engineering consulting firm Green Environmental & Corrosion, Inc. This company appears to specialize in government and military projects, which leads me to wonder if she is therefore used to government agencies signing one-sided contracts with the taxpayers on the losing side.
District 2 is “represented” by Bert Nasuti, who, when not admiring his model stadiums, is a Partner in the law firm of Thompson, O’Brien, Kemp, & Nasuti, P.C. specializing in commercial transactions, banking, finance, and government law. From their website, Mr. Nasuti’s specialty is bankruptcy law including “representation of banks, credit unions and commercial finance companies”. Res ipsa loquitor.
In District 3, we have Mike Beaudreau, whose re-election web site states that he will ”make every effort to reduce taxes by controlling government spending.” He’d like you to interpret “controlling” as “reducing”. His vote for the stadium gives me a better idea how to interpret that, and my vote will go elsewhere. Mr. Beaudreau is a National Accounts Manager for Ricoh. Please buy your office equipment elsewhere.
Kevin Kennerly (District 4) has a listing in his bio that states he is president of a business and management consulting firm, but I have not been able to track down the name of that firm as yet. If you know, please post a comment with the info.
We have an opportunity to rid ourselves of three of the five perpetrators of the stadium debacle this November. Unfortunately we will be paying for the mistake of electing them in the first place for the next 30 years.