Buckhead counts music legend Elton John among its famous residents.
“I voted against the ‘Buckhead City’ bills, which the majority of my constituents oppose and which threaten the stability of our education, public safety, transportation, and financial systems statewide,” Esteves said after the vote on Monday.City spokesperson Michael Smith said Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens was “disappointed” by Monday’s vote, calling the legislation “short-sighted” with “disastrous consequences.
Kemp is also critical of Buckhead cityhood. Late Tuesday night, the Republican governor’s executive counsel, David Dove,CEO of the Buckhead City Committee, Bill White, poses with a sign in the neighborhood.Republican senator and sponsor Randy Robertson, however, remained unbowed following Monday’s vote.
“Too many times inside this building and especially outside this building in local communities, elected officials forget who they work for. So when movements happen that remind elected officials who the real bosses are, then I have to support that,” he said. Buckhead City also received a loud vote of support from Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who represents Georgia’s the mostly-rural 14th district“A vote against Buckhead city is a vote FOR crime. A vote for Buckhead city is a vote FOR freedom,” Greene, who recently
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