Creative Loafing’s transportation nut, Thomas Wheatley, reported earlier this week from the T-SPLOST forum hosted by Emory on Wednesday evening.  Of all the answers given by the panel, Wheatley found Decatur Mayor Bill Floyd’s reply to a question about how supporters should address the issue with potential voters to be the most memorable of the bunch. Here’s Floyd’s reply according to Wheatley…

“The key to it is to let people understand what’s at stake here. I heard someone say this last week: Who do you think is gonna be cheering when this doesn’t pass on Aug. 1? Is it gonna be the tea party people? Is it gonna be those in South DeKalb? Is it gonna be those who think we’re paying a penny and we don’t want to pay any more? It’s gonna be Charlotte, it’s gonna be Dallas, it’s gonna be Phoenix. It’s gonna be everybody we compete with for jobs on a daily basis. They will know we’ve stepped back from the plate. They will know we are not willing to take the steps here to move this region forward.”