Oconee County, GA Politics

Once again Lee Becker calls out the county organ The Oconee Enterprise newspaper with some serious misreporting by Miss Vinnie Williams via pdf file and thorough fact checking and correcting. Many Oconee County Democratic Committee members expressed disdain in their listserv this afternoon in their choice of headlines and coverage locally on the political scene. Perhaps I will post some of it later. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lee Becker < lbbecker@mindspring.com > Date: Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:58 PM Subject: Correcting Enterprise Report To: lbbecker@mindspring.com Dear Friends, I usually let this kind of thing pass, but the story in today's edition /The Oconee Enterprise/ regarding the Daniells Bridge Road rezone postponement is so bad I felt I had to try to correct it. I've marked up a copy of the story pointing out what is wrong. I could not find much of anything right. The link to the correction is in my blog at http://www.oconeecountyobserva...

Watkinsville and Oconee County historic sites [Vinnie Williams, Oconee Enterprise, 9/27/07, p. A3] are not drawing tourists because their destruction is being encouraged by those who should be fighting tooth and nail to save these special places. Word gets around quickly and the public wants no part of it. The guilty parties are developers who don’t care and their supporters in the city and county governments. Those folks seemly have no vision of what should be protected, how to do it, and what the public really wants. Are they deaf? The gateway charm at the intersection of Barnett Shoals Road and Main Street in Watkinsville has been replaced by some out-of-scale ‘thing’ which comes close to a spaghetti western stage set. The wonderfully wide sidewalks in downtown Watkinsville have been replaced by parking spaces. Now the sidewalks are so narrow that two people can’t pass each other without turning sideways. Who thought that improvement up? And then, there are those unfortunate t...