Tension, Not Fireworks In Lithonia

Tension and confusion, but not fireworks Monday night, when the mayor of Lithonia and members of the city council met for the first time in nearly three weeks.

[Mike]

This whole episode is outrageous and embarrassing.

Along with the Clayton County educational crisis, we now have the apparent inability of local officials to adequately govern in Lithonia.

I've lived in Virginia, Illinois, Connecticut, New York and Georgia, and I've never seen the level of incompetence in local government as I've seen here.

Is this the best we can do? Please, let's get it together...

[Rebecca Goodwin]

A real shame that officals are acting like school kids on a play ground. I cannot believe that she is still in office. If she hadn't acted a fool in the fist place, none of this would of come to pass.
Don't they have better things to do?

[bubba]

put them on jerry springer,,,this city is a joke.police is crooked[speed traps]. nothing but m-o-n-k-e-y-s

[Butterfly777]

So, with crime on the rise ...the police are guarding the mayors office??? And the residents of the city are paying for that???

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....very interesting...

[Whatt]

The mayor is a drama queen.

[Winslo]

Want to know what the South looked like during Reconstruction?

Lithonia and Clayton County ........

[beachbum129]

Lithonia and its fine citizens are a bad joke. Perdue needs to send the GBI in today and find out what exactly is going on and resolve it. To spend tax money having police officers guarding the Mayor's office is pure insanity. Sadly, its foolishness like this that makes it harder to bring new companies to Georgia and keeps us in the national news ... along with Clayton County B of E .... reinforcing the old "country bumpkin" image some have of us.

Gov. Purdue ... please take a few minutes from your busy day and DO SOMETHING. Its obvious that the citizens of Lithonia and of Clayton County lack the collective ability to grasp and solve their own problems.

[Gail]

Butterfly777 wrote:

So, with crime on the rise ...the police are guarding the mayors office??? And the residents of the city are paying for that???
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....very interesting...

How hard would it have been to box the stuff up and put it in a locked storage facility? One key would take the place of several officers and save a lot of tax dollars!

[liberal]

Winslo wrote:

Want to know what the South looked like during Reconstruction?
Lithonia and Clayton County ........

No it didn't. Also all the black politicians were republicans as well.

[Winslo]

Liberal:

You need to go back to school and study your history. There were State Supreme Court justices who couldn't even read.

[ex-mayor]

Call for her resignation now!!!!!!!
Get it over with!!!! Once a BOOB, always a BOOB!!!!! And a DRAMA QUEEN!!!!!!!!!

[statingTHEobviou s]

What does the Clayton County Schoolboard and Lithonia council and mayor have in common? HMMMM

[Butha Kitt]

statingTHEobvious wrote:

What does the Clayton County Schoolboard and Lithonia council and mayor have in common? HMMMM

Why do you ask the same qustion? You must want to start some kind of debate. But to answer your question--they're both in the old,tired,south-minded, keep people down, racist/prejudiced state of Georgia. hmmmmm.

[beachbum129]

Wait ... hey ... we missing it ... for all you folks with no kids ... NOW is the time to buy new homes in Clayton County. That's right folks, it's "Sale" time. Might even be able to get some school properties cheap. What they gonna do with them when there are no kids left. Better yet ... the ppl from Lithonia can move to Clayton and we'll have all the nut jobs in one place. Lithonia city council ppl can run for Clayton County Council and then they could work with the Clayton County Board of Education to create .... no .. wait .. that's Steven Speilberg stuff. LOL

[statingTHEobviou s]

Butha Kitt wrote:

<quoted text>Why do you ask the same qustion? You must want to start some kind of debate. But to answer your question--they're both in the old,tired,south-minded, keep people down, racist/prejudiced state of Georgia. hmmmmm.

Nothing to debate, the answer is clear...biggest problem in Atlanta, no one keeping anyone down except themselves, watched the news lately? Blue Jean Bandits, Shootings, Robbery et al....

[Concerned Citizen]

Unfortunately it would be nice to think this is the first time things of this nature have happened...but it's not...and it is happening all over the country...no matter the "color" of those in charge. The bottomlin is - we the citizens need to THINK when we vote and ask serious questions of those we are considering voting for to manage our municipalities.

You can harp on "what do these situation have in common" or get out and vote.

Most of these areas are made up of people of various ethnic groups which means it's everyone's problem...especially considering that tax dollars are going to this stuff that is going on.

Folks need to start voting with their minds and not for those that just look like them.

[liberal]

Winslo wrote:

Liberal:
You need to go back to school and study your history. There were State Supreme Court justices who couldn't even read.

Name the black ones.

[lynn]

I'm just surprised she showed up.

[Lady of Lithonia]

All comments are accpeted however the city of Lithonia should be respected in the sense that it is crying for help. Try not to confuse city council indecency with city turmoil. The tension will be eased with belief and community sencerity to accomplish one positive goal at a time.