Shawn,
I have nothing to be ashamed of, as I have misled no one.

Oh dear, my darlings:

I must have missed that wonderful television program. With my extremely busy, jet-setting lifestyle it can be hard to keep up.

I have recently had a few open days in my schedule to read all the postings over the past year. What an adventure they've been. Some of you have been so much in the forefront since the very beginning.

How unfortunate for me to point out that deception has been recorded quite frequently prior to the referendum vote by many people who said they were voting "no".

Of course I would always want to give the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps some of those voting "no" were misled and/or confused themselves and they painted the landscape as such.

I am so thankful that I was away in my Austrian residence during most of this. Of course, I did vote by mail. Et voila nous avons un ville.

Oh Pardon Me Billy.
http://www.linkedin.com/company/dunwoody-crier-newspaper

My dear Mr. Ericsson:

In all gentle candor, let us not denigrate another's name! Whether another's position may not be to your liking, it is inappropriate of you to refer to William as "Billy".

If Mr. Baxter would like to go by another familiar name he will let us know.

Fondly,
Ms. Millendorf

Then there was famous email exchange where C$ND members were scrambling to answer questions about some fact checking the Crier (Ms. Rebecca) had done. Ms. Rebecca, being a C$ND member, was involved in an email exchange where she admitted being unable to answer financial questions relating to the new city that a C$ND member should know.

“It’s above my pay grade… to figure out” was her comment in the email communication. Come to find out, the email exchange shows she was not the only C$ND member that could not answer the questions, C$ND President Doug Dykhuizen and Rep. Mike Jacobs were unable to answer the questions as well. Check out Mike’s comment in the article.

Dunwoody Crier Reporter on Brookhaven Facts “It’s above my paygrade… to figure out
http://tinyurl.com/9gsn7t9

Transparent? Not on your life. She will make an excellent district #1 councilperson! You folks deserve her!

Then we have Mr. Dick. In addition to their Crier propaganda paper, Mr. Dick has a Sunday morning TV politically oriented public affairs program. Instead of utilizing their media resources to rally the troops and better DeKalb County (Hey! We are still in DeKalb) they dog DeKalb County and DeKalb County School System with venomously while promoting their new city.

Just think, if five years ago, they utilized their media voices along with Rep. Jacobs, Rep Taylor, Sen. Millar, C$ND, Brookhaven Yes, and a collection actively concerned of citizens, we could have been on our way to make our county strong and well governed like it used to be. We could have made great strides in correcting the degradation of our school system. Instead, our county and schools suck big time. And, we now have division within neighborhoods that have nothing in common with other neighborhoods making up this new city.

Amusingly, Mr Jeff Dickerson, a Georgia Gang panelist, is a crisis communications public relations specialist and DCSS has been one of his clients off and on in the past few years. Objectivity?

Please pass the yellow mustard!

Your No City group, anti -city blogs, A Times News, your moniker -Transparent?
Ya'll are experts at keeping your names and activities secret. Too funny.

Yeah, we learned from C$ND, Brookhaven Yes, and Rep. Mike Jacobs.

Hey! Between whines, you want a Cheerwine?

The links in that blog either go to the wrong place or don't work anymore.

Mr. Eric, yes, the links are dead, I posted for the article content. Did you not see the emails when the article was first posted earlier this year? When this article came to my attention, and I saw those emails, I posted the article on several active Patch forums. Those emails were very enlightening and gave great insight to C$ND, Brookhaven Yes, and Rep. Mike Jacobs.

Special hamburger?

Yes I saw the original email though I don't recall it word for word. I do recall not being concerned by the above my pay scale comment though the bit about not publishing it was interesting.

But we are talking about a free neighborhood newspaper so its not like its that unusual that the publisher chooses which letters to publish or not, in part based on their judgement of the veracity of the claims.

Mr. Eric, for me, it was surprising that folks so involved with C$ND would know so little, even when given the time to do their research or consult with other C$ND members. At that point it became clear that it was only about creating a new city at any cost. Even if five years down the road they were wrong.

Please pass the yellow mustard!

If one wants to mislead voters into an inappropriate conclusion while one pretends to be a 'journalist' isn't it just as important for one to know what needs to be kept quiet and hidden and use one's false sense of 'neutrality' to help hide those facts?

My dear on-line acquaintances:

Although I am not in District 1, it seems to me the treatment of Ms. Williams is in stark contrast to the other candidates' posts.

Is the display of hatred necessary? If one does not like a candidate, then politeness dictates refraining from speaking such extreme ill. This is always a wise response especially since the person demonstrating discomfort may soon find that he or she is guilty of libelous language.

Fond regards,

Ms. Millendorf

Ms. PPM, BS, I am in district #1 and you have been eating rubbery snails in France too long. Stick around, there will be some more dirt surfacing from time to time . . . Hey! The election is in November! Plenty of time for fun!

Maybe you should have a Cheerwine and a special hamburger? And, would you please sit up straight?

"But we are talking about a free neighborhood newspaper..." ---Eric

journalist: "a person who practices the occupation or profession of journalism."---dictionary.com

publicist: "a person who publicizes, especially a press agent or public-relations consultant." ---dictionary.com

To BahHumBugger @ 2:20pm --

You are SO right on with your comments about Ms. Chase Williams' "journalism" in regards to the biased articles she wrote about the city before the referendum. She and her husband both badly wanted Dunwoody to include their neighborhood when the boundaries were being drawn for our tony city to the north. Why do you suppose she now is so pro-Brookhaven?

As long as doing away with those wavy sidewalks are tops on her agenda, huh, Eric?
This is and was always about the initiators of this city looking for a post for themselves. You all are fools if you believe this was ever anything less.
http://citizensfornorthdekalb.org/aboutus.htm

My dear Mr. Hovdesven:

You are certainly an excellent commentator! It is quite the benefit to look at opposing views when done in an appropriate manner. It seems that Ms. Williams has been involved quite a bit in your residential area.

We also have wonderful representatives from the new district in which I reside. I look forward to reading their responses to the five questions.

Until then, let us all enjoy our Thursday evening.

Fondly,
Ms. Millendorf

Ms. BM, THANK YOU!

Please pass the yellow mustard!

Maven,
But she shore does talk purty.

Brook Mav,
I will find it hard to argue with you on this topic. Don't forget her push to get another flood plain with wetlands developed for Concorde Soccer just two parcels downstream on Nancy Creek. She is the antithesis of fair and balanced zoning and planning practices, and you are correct. Both Mrs RCW and her overlord Elaine Boyer both somehow got their kids into Marist. Conflict of interests are abundant with her. Although it says above that Mrs RCW has ceased her reporting with the Crier, this does not excuse the ethical malfeasance she will still be practicing. It is highly shunned upon to be involved in or married to a journalist and run for political office. She knows this and so does Dicky.

Grieg,
I do believe that 'Deep Throat' had the appropriate concept in mind when he explained to Woodward and Bernstein just what to follow.

Brookhaven Maven, I do find myself often in agreement with you on numerous points, and yes I agree with you on what should have been the outcome with the Marist Fields. But to blame Ms. Williams for that I don't agree with. In the end there was a very strong split on the issue of the Marist Expansion (well according to them it wasn't an expansion). Take a look at the documents section in the www.MurpheyCandler.net website or more directly this link http://mcha.clubexpress.com/content.aspx?page_id=70&club_id=200555&item_id=8788&cat_id=-1 . I posted everyone of those documents. I reviewed everyone and often found them through many hours of work. I and another person wrote most of the opposition brief that was finalized by the attorney hired to oppose the project. Ms. Williams was not on the planning board or the ZBA at that time and to my knowledge was not in charge of a grass routes movement for it. Yes she was writing about it for the Crier, and yes I disagreed with the focus of some of the articles but none of them represented a lack of ethics or untoward activities.

One of the crushing blows to the opposition was that one of the key neighborhoods in the Ashford Alliance opposed opposition (was in favor i would say) to the Marist proposal - this was on the Harts Mill area - and not Mike Jacobs but another DeKalb employee had a role.

But even that neighborhood not signing on didn't cause the problem. (continued)

Eric,
Good detail on the Marist fiasco.
So at least we agree on enforcing (and adopting in Brokehaven) the Dekalb Flood Plain Tree Ordinance and on reviewing the Territorial Act in terms of limiting the absolute raw authority granted to Georgia Power.

By the way, do you know who the hands down larges contributor to Ms. Boyer's campaign was in the last two cycles?

2.5 I need to amend my comments on DeKalb's role, The CEO's office did not provide a legal analysis of the waiving of the tree ordinance because they said it was a commission decision. The legal council for the commission basically said they lacked the resources or ability to do an analysis of the legality. And in the end there wasn't enough money in the community to bring the case to court.

So bottom line, yes this approval was against the wishes of many folks - but you know what in all honesty the a significant portion of the opposition wasn't generated by a desire to protect this valuable provision in the Tree Ordinance. And from a numbers point of view there were probably more DeKalb residents supporting it - granted they had conflicted motivations but as I've learned with Murphey Candler Park - parents in an organized sports league are a very politically powerful force.

So was I unhappy with the decsion? Yes. Do I think Ms. Williams played any kind of notable role in its approval? No. I never disussed with her if she was in favor of it because she wasn't a key player and I don't think she took a position publicly on it - though yes I assumed she was in favor of it.

But as I've stated - I understood why people were in favor of it, and can't say I'm absolutely right and they are wrong. Though I do think the county displayed a huge lapse in how they enforce their zoning and development rules.

I will say that Marist has done a good job with the development. I am impressed with their cutting edge or common sense approach to building a parking lot. The design they used including no curbs that allow storm water to go into landscaped swales instead of being channeled directly into a storm pipe that goes to a stream is something I want to see Brookhaven adopt. It improves water quality and it provides needed water to the plants - why we've adopted a fixation on curbs has been a complaint of mine.

As to the GA Power Transfer Station at Perimeter Summit. I wasn't intimately involved in it. I did have some above the clouds discussions with the folks involved but individuals were not discussed. Bottom line GA Power was an issue that even DeKalb County had no control over. The Georgia Constitution or statutes impart insane amounts of authority to GA Power. Basically GA Power is exempt from all Zoning and Permitting rules at the County or City level. Only the PSC has authority over them and as I recall the PSC took the illogical position that they did not need to or were not obligated to govern or watch over GA Power's compliance with community development or zoning standards. We need to elect better PSC members, unfortunately most folks pay little attention to these very important elections.

With that said I thought GA Power ended up making concessions for the immediate neighbors though I don't know the specifics of the final outcome.

Sorry for going on and on.
Also I made a mistake on on point 5. It should have read, in other words in any other county you could NOT stop it. - I left out the NOT.

Oh and I do need to give credit to the DeKalb staff that worked on the permitting.

Eric,
See above, I hit the wrong reply button.

Yep Eddie. Though I would like to see adoption of the tree ordinance also. One issue especially when it comes to stream buffers and cutting trees in flood plains is the issue existing uses. Most people in general will agree with the principles but if adequate flexibility is not included for existing homes you'll get some vocal oppositions from homeowners who fear they will not be able to ad a deck or something. As to DeKalb I wounder if they can enforce their ordinance in light of how its been ... or not been enforced in the past.

Re powers of utilities, that would seem to be politically possible since its the republican subdivisions that often get ticked off by the utility easements.

i don't know, though I'm surprised she would even need to make much of a fund raising effort. And don't get me wrong there are many things I like about her. I think she and her husband are good people. Though I even like her chief of staff and he's a royal pr*ck......lol sorry, I joke, though it is kind of true, I mean when he's not pissing me off he's a great guy to talk to.

Mr. Phil, you do know that Mr. GuruLikeDrucker who has posted regularly on the Patch is running for office, don’t you? Post your e-mail address and I will send you the e-mail and linkedin file with picture from his neighbors.

Or, you may not be interested because this individual was not against the new city as I was, but was a C$ND member and associated with Brookhaven Yes?

Naturally, I understand your Brookhaven Yes bias . . . And, your Brookhaven Yes preference to go after me.

Please pass the yellow mustard!

Mr. Phil, refer to our last discussion regarding this matter.

Now, if you want information about GuruLikeDrucker, post your email.

Please pass the yellow mustard!

Mr. Phil, here is a funny article for you, Mr. GuruLikeDrucker has an article in the Patch and he participates in the conversation below. Hey! By hook or crook!

http://brookhaven.patch.com/articles/the-brookhaven-name-resonates-with-everyone

Special hamburger with thin sliced onions and pickles and yellow mustard coming right up!

Joan Smeltzer was her name, and yes she was the leader of NBNC and a great ally of mine. I am sorry she moved.

Yes I went on too long but when I looked at all those documents I had uploaded or prepared to the website something I had put behind me came flooding back. So I did it in part because I think it could offer insights to others as to how county and city decisions get made but also in part because I just wanted to. As I said my apologies for going on and on. It could have been worse you could have been stuck in a room listening to me blabber on and on.

I don't recall Joan talking about the issues you raised, though that didn't mean it didn't happen because Joan wasn't that type of person. Our civic discourse would be so much better and productive if there were more Joans out there. Though I'll admit that my mother who passed away at the age of 55 from Breast Cancer was named Joan so I have a soft spot for people named Joan.

Phil,
Please refrain.