Politics & Government

TSPLOST Campaign Transforms Mail

The election on the regional sales tax is exactly four months away, and the bulk-mail brochures are starting to arrive.

TSPLOST proponents in if the is an accurate reflection of public opinion about the for transportation projects.

That work is well underway.

A glossy brochure (images attached) arrived in the mail at the satellite office of East Cobb Patch this afternoon from Transform Metro Atlanta, based in downtown Atlanta.

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Financed by the Metro Atlanta Voter Education Network, or MAVEN, the four-page brochure follows the you may have seen in favor of the Transportation Improvement Act:

  • We average an hour a day in traffic, which over a year is roughly a month and a half of 40-hour workweeks sitting in a car, doing nothing.
  • While we're stuck in traffic, our kids are suffering alone.
  • The TSPLOST can save us time and money and transform our lives.

In short, as the tagline on the bag of the brochure say, "Less traffic = more time at home."

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What do you think of the brochure? Will anything you receive in the mail affect how you'll vote on the TSPLOST referendum July 31?

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