Taxpayers’ Report Card for Bob Weatherford, Cobb Commission District 1

Posted on April 6, 2018 by taxpayer

Spending YOUR Money

	Voted to increase county spending to $789 MILLION for Fiscal Year 2016¹
	Voted to increase county spending to $858 MILLION for Fiscal Year 2017²
	Voted to increase county spending to $890 MILLION for Fiscal Year 2018³

Raising YOUR Taxes

	Voted to increase county property taxes to $280 MILLION for 2015⁴
	Voted to increase county property taxes to $292 MILLION for 2017⁵
	Voted for $130 MILLION per year ‘OLOST’ sales tax hike^6,7

Braves Stadium Boondoggle

	Voted to give the Braves a parking monopoly near the Stadium by outlawing private parking^8,9
	Voted to condemn private property so that the government could use it to build the Braves Bridge¹⁰
	Voted to give the Braves an additional $14 MILLION for their road work near the stadium^11,12

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Footnotes

Minutes of Regular Meeting, Cobb County Board of Commissioners, 8 Sep 2015, Finance Item 8C
Minutes of Regular Meeting, Cobb County Board of Commissioners, 27 Sep 2016, Finance Item A
Minutes of Regular Meeting, Cobb County Board of Commissioners, 22 Sep 2017, Finance Item 8A
Minutes of Regular Meeting, Cobb County Board of Commissioners, 22 Jul 2015, Finance Item 2C
Minutes of Regular Meeting, Cobb County Board of Commissioners, 25 Jul 2017, Finance Item 7B
Minutes of Regular Meeting, Cobb County Board of Commissioners, 23 Jan 2018, Board of Commissioners Item 13A
Jon Gargis, “Cobb commissioners to consider public safety referendum call,” Marietta Daily Journal, 19 Jan 2018
Minutes of Regular Meeting, Cobb County Board of Commissioners, 23 Feb 2016, Community Dev. Item 6A, Code Section 78.406
Liz Roscher, “Cobb County outlaws private parking at new Braves stadium,” Yahoo! Sports, 30 Jun 2016
Minutes of Regular Meeting, Cobb County Board of Commissioners, 22 Mar 2016, Consent Agenda Item 9D
Minutes of Regular Meeting, Cobb County Board of Commissioners, 14 Mar 2017, County-wide Item 10A
Liz Roscher, “Braves say Cobb County owes $14 million for new stadium transportation,” Yahoo! Sports, 25 Jan 2017

Candidate Survey Results for the 2017 Senate District 32 Special Election

Posted on April 10, 2017 by taxpayer

Georgia Taxpayers United surveyed each of the candidates State Senate District 32 special election for 2017. We ask candidates to give us a straight answer, “yes” or “no,” on issues that are important to our supporters. We gave each candidate until April 10th to return their completed survey.

Survey Questions

Will you support legislation that will effectively nullify Obamacare?
Will you support legislation to repeal the hospital bed tax and oppose all efforts to give revenue (taxing) authority to unelected bureaucrats?
Will you support legislation to completely repeal the state income tax in Georgia including any and all State taxes on dividends and interest?
Will you support legislation, including any necessary constitutional amendment(s), to completely repeal all property taxes in Georgia?
Will you support legislation, including any necessary constitutional amendment(s), to repeal all ad valorem taxes on automobiles and all motor fuel taxes?
Will you support legislation to completely repeal the Transportation Investment Act and to abolish the 12 regional commissions?
Will you support legislation to completely repeal Georgia’s Internet tax scheme?

Survey Responses

Key: = Yes, = No, = Yes and will sponsor, = Did not answer

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Tax hikin’ Heath

Posted on March 14, 2017 by taxpayer

It’s been quite the year for State Representative Heath Clark (R-Warner Robins).

You see, Rep. Clark has voted not once, not twice, not three times, but four times for major tax hikes in just the last month!

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Candidate Survey Results for the 2014 General Election

Posted on October 20, 2014 by taxpayer

Georgia Taxpayers United surveyed each of the candidates for each State House, State Senate, and Gubernatorial race. We ask candidates to give us a straight answer, “yes” or “no,” on issues that are important to our supporters. We gave each candidate until April 21st to return their completed survey.

Survey Questions

Will you support legislation that will effectively nullify Obamacare in Georgia by authorizing State and local law enforcement to arrest federal officials attempting to implement Obamacare within the State of Georgia and by providing legal recourse to Georgia citizens adversely affected by Obamacare?
Will you support legislation to repeal the hospital bed tax and oppose all efforts to give revenue (taxing) authority to unelected bureaucrats?
Will you support legislation to completely repeal the state income tax in Georgia including any and all State taxes on dividends and interest?
Will you support legislation, including any necessary constitutional amendment(s), to completely repeal all property taxes in Georgia?
Will you support legislation, including any necessary constitutional amendment(s), to repeal all ad valorem taxes on automobiles, the prepaid motor fuel tax, and the motor fuel excise tax?
Will you support legislation to completely repeal the Transportation Investment Act and to abolish the 12 regional commissions?
Will you support legislation to completely repeal Georgia’s Internet tax scheme?

Survey Responses

Key: = Yes, = No, = Yes and will sponsor, = Did not answer
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Are you ready to pay for Cobb County’s $1 BILLION boondoggle?

Posted on February 17, 2014 by taxpayer

Are you ready to pay for Cobb County’s $1 BILLION boondoggle?

As you know, your Cobb County Board of Commissioners (BoC) rammed through a Braves stadium boondoggle late last year that (we then thought) would put taxpayers on the hook for a “$300 MILLION” bailout.

Despite Commissioner Tim Lee’s public claims that the project would “only” take $300 MILLION from taxpayers, in reality the price tag was estimated to actually be closer to $1 BILLION according to Planning Commissioner Galt Porter!

It is outrageous for government to take money from taxpayers and then turn around and hand it to a private, politically well connected, multi-billion dollar entertainment company — don’t you agree?