The man running to unseat Georgia Gov. Brian P. Kemp in the May 24 Republican primary told The Georgia Star News and The Star News Network that Kemp failed Georgians in many ways, and one of them was when Kemp refused to back the separation of Buckhead City from Atlanta.
“Look, this is a governor that has sold us out,” said former senator David A. Perdue Jr., the man President Donald J. Trump endorsed to defeat Kemp.
“He did it with a consent decree and no special sessions, as I said, but it’s beyond that. He actually denied or did not support the voters in Buckhead to have a vote on how they were going to govern themselves going forward,” said Perdue.
Buckhead residents and the Buckhead City Chairman and CEO Bill White even got a shout-out from Trump at his March 26 rally in Commerce, Georgia.
“I have to tell you a man that I knew in New York for a long period of time, a man who loved the police more than almost anybody I can think of other than me, Bill White,” the president said.
Trump even called White the mayor of Buckhead City, which was once an independent municipality, before racists pulled the majority-white city into Atlanta to overwhelm the growing power of black voters.
“He’s your mayor. Where’s Bill White? Where’s Bill? Stand up, Bill. Great job. Great job,” Trump said. “I hope you get it through, Bill, because you want to have a safe place, and I think you probably will. Knowing Bill, I have a feeling it’s going to be very successful.”
Although Kemp and the Republican Party leadership at the statehouse blocked enabling legislation for Buckhead City, White and his team successfully placed a question on the statewide May 24 GOP primary ballot to test the movement’s popular support.
White told The Georgia Star News and The Star News Network Buckhead residents want out of Atlanta because of the rising crime there that Atlanta Mayor Andre D. Dickens ignores.
“The way things are going with crime in Atlanta and a mayor that’s voted to defund the police, we’re going to change all that in Buckhead City,” he said.
“We keep the money we used to send to Atlanta. We get 90 cops right now. We would have 250 cops, and by Joe Biden’s Department of Justice standards, we need 270 cops for Buckhead,” he said.
“The mayor’s promising police officers, they never show up, and crime is out of control. It feels like we’re living in a war zone in Buckhead,” he said.
“It should be more like Beverly Hills than the O.K. Corral.”
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Neil W. McCabe is the national political editor of The Star News Network based in Washington. He is an Army Reserve public affairs NCO and an Iraq War veteran. Send him news tips: [email protected]. Follow him on TruthSocial & GETTR: @ReporterMcCabe
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