Dunwoody, MARTA, and Other Election Results
July 16, 2008From the oldest DeKalb city to the youngest, congrats to John over at Dunwoody North and all those North DeKalb peeps on their brand spankin’ new city of Dunwoody! I guess DeKalb County’s strategy of poorly constructed lawsuit threats and saying “It could be even worse than it already is!” didn’t really sway or inspire many people to vote “no” (only 19%). Who woulda thunk it?
In other news to the north, Gwinnett narrowly failed to give a majority backing to the non-binding MARTA question, split along party lines. Bet you can’t guess which party opposed it? But as the AJC points out, a near 50/50 split [UPDATE: Peach Pundit has the YES vote at 37% for Republicans] is a big improvement on the 3-to-1 defeat MARTA was repeatedly handed back in the ol’ 20th century.
And finally, in regards to all those important DeKalb County votes where actual people were concerned…we’re looking at run-offs. Jones vs. Martin. Ellis vs. Watson.
I’ll drink to that. Rode through a few Dunwoody neighborhoods in the last week. Was impressed with the support and signage that was visible just about everywhere. They really got together as a community to get this through. Congrats to Dunwoody, well done.
The 37% number is only votes counted in the Republican primary because that is the only thing that matters to those Peach Pundit folks.
The Democratic Primary number was almost 70% in favor.
The overall number was around narrowly more against than for.
Ahh…thanks for the clarity Decaturguy!
As for Dunwoody – be careful what you ask for. The new City of Milton is even now facing the issue of maintaining streets that, I daresay, they weren’t expecting. Also, they’re squabbling about whether to extend the public sewer; seems like some people don’t want to in order to preserve the sprawl.
Great! Dunwoody is where we are moving when Decatur does this annexation bit, so I’m glad they are their own city.