SaportaReport: Time for Chambers to move on

November 4, 2009 by Jeanne Bonner
Filed under: POLITICS 

Maria Saporta of SaportaReport speaks with authority when she says that Rep. Jill Chambers (R-Dunwoody), who chairs the Georgia legislature’s MARTA Oversight Committee (MARTOC), and the rest of the naysayers need to move on now that the state has given MARTA a clean fiscal bill of health.

Below is a short excerpt, but please read the full column here.

From SaportaReport:

“This audit review should be enough to silence Chambers once and for all. She has made MARTA and the state jump through time-consuming hoops on her witch hunt for evil and wrongdoing.

“And now it’s time for her to stop.”

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I will reiterate that I don’t think everything MARTA does is great. For example, I still want to know why there isn’t a bus that goes all the way up Boulevard and Monroe!

But using the transit service as one’s own punching bag is wrong. What are we doing to do, stop the trains, pull up the tracks, bulldoze the stations?

I don’t think so, so let’s work on building on the transit system we have.

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