CL’s Thomas Wheatley does some class-act digging and finally gets an answer to the question “What the hell happened to the MARTA bill?”

The beans-spiller was State Representative Ralph Long III, who informed Wheatley that the House GOP used MARTA as a “political football” in committee in an attempt to gain support for their unpopular property tax freeze bill.  When Democrats still refused to back the bill, which would have royally screwed local gov’ts, the GOP tied up MARTA’s lifeline in committee.

Wheatley’s post is MUST READ for all the reasons stated above PLUS an alleged “Disney World” comment made by one GOP lawmaker regarding his level of concern for MARTA’s future.

And that’s not the end of it!  Wheatley promises more later.  My breath is officially bated.