Rep. Jill Chambers is still really worked up about MARTA’s attempt to allocate $400,000 to hire a lobbying firm to help the authority navigate those scummy, savage waters at the capitol.  According to her, any attempt by MARTA to get the state legislature to do anything about the still-failing transit system is a “waste of taxpayers money.”

And just in case any of her fellow MARTA board members disagree with her, she’s offering another option.  Getting the hell out!

Atlanta Unfiltered has Chambers’ email to her fellow board members…

I hope I have made it clear to the Authority that I feel this is a waste of taxpayers money – MARTA already has two staff lobbyists and the firm of Holland & Knight to represent them in government issues.

…Should either of these two issues come before the Board, those members who vote in agreement to these staff proposals may see their Board seats eliminated with any future restructuring of the MARTA Act.

Seriously, who needs subtlety when you can just make people do what you want?

Jump over to Atlanta Unfiltered to read responses from Board Chairman Michael Walls and MARTA CEO Beverley Scott.

Atlanta Unfiltered does some top-notch digging and turns up records that show embattled DeKalb Police Chief Terrell Bolton took 56 unapproved comp days between October 2007 and his “firing” by CEO Burrell Ellis earlier this year.

Nothing shows dedication to a community or a cause like unapproved days off!