Oxendine: Build an interstate through East Atlanta? Let’s talk!
August 28, 2009 at 10:56 am by Thomas Wheatley in NewsGood morning, John Oxendine, Georgia Republican gubernatorial candidate. What bad ideas do you have for us this morning? Oh, you think we should talk about building a “parallel downtown connector” that could plow through most of East Atlanta! OK. Lemme just first clean up all this coffee I spit all over my desk.
Oxendine pitches the idea — along with a Western Bypass, a new Northern Arc, and a couple of other projects that will most likely never get built — in this campaign video.
Building a massive asphalt artery through some of the city’s most vibrant neighborhoods isn’t going to win Oxendine any support inside the perimeter.
But this pie-in-the-sky idea, which will most likely never happen, could win the gubernatorial hopeful points with the North Fulton crowd, a tried and true Republican enclave that’s thought to most likely favor Karen Handel. The Ox says that people who live in the Ga. 400 and I-85 corridors — unlike potential voters in Cobb County — don’t have the luxury of bypassing the city.
But anything to get Georgia out of gridlock, right?
(H/T to Jim Galloway)
August 28th, 2009 at 11:07 am
I’m sure you didn’t mean to imply that The Ox is a pandering, disingenuous political whore. He just wants to help us – especially the children. You don’t hate children, do you?
August 28th, 2009 at 11:30 am
Only children in cornfields named Malachi.
August 28th, 2009 at 11:32 am
Headline Of The Future:
Barnes Wins 95% of Atlanta Vote – Crushes Oxendine
August 28th, 2009 at 11:53 am
the man has lost it.
if he ever had it.
August 28th, 2009 at 11:58 am
Malachai, like The Ox, was just misunderstood.
August 28th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
I’m rooting for John Monds, the Libertarian. Ox is a joke.
I live in Alpharetta… it seems to me that I can get on 285 to BYPASS Atlanta pretty easily, or I can hop on MARTA at North Springs. Don’t tell me I only have one route to take!
August 28th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Im voting for the nasal congested heavy breathing camera person.
Great work, guy.
August 28th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
Alternative Headline Of The Future:
Primary Shocker! Atlanta (Apparently) a Republican Stronghold; Oxendine Fails to Make Runoff
August 28th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
This guys seems like someone who will say almost anything to get someone to pay attention to him… so far unsuccessfully.
I thought conservatism was about local control. But NO, we can’t let the Atlanta region handle its own transportation when the state can continue to funnel billions to its road-building buddies.
The republicans in the state government are a disgrace to TRUE conservatism.
August 28th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Ox has lost it. If he ever had a grasp on it.
September 1st, 2009 at 8:41 am
John Oxendine is a virulant homophobe who has worked tirelessly to ensure that the gay citizens of Georgia never enjoy the same “privileges” as the straight community. I hope his run is a resounding, spectacular failure. I sincerely hope that the news media calls him to task on his anti-gay agenda before he gains a solid foothole with the uninformed voters.
September 1st, 2009 at 9:20 am
But Jeff, you’re forgetting that OX ‘kicks’ it with the original Lone Wolf, Chuck Norris!
September 1st, 2009 at 11:51 pm
It just _kills_ me to think about all of you poor victims in North Fulton–all you want to do is go to the airport, and here I am, selfishly forcing you to take the Connector because my _house_ is right here in your way.
You want to get to the airport quicker? Here’s a thought–MOVE CLOSER TO THE AIRPORT.