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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

TSPLOST Town-Hall Meeting Cancelled

Tuesday's scheduled event at the Mountain View Community Center has been called off because of a candidates' forum in Marietta.

Tuesday night's town-hall meeting organized by State House candidate JoEllen Smith about the proposed TSPLOST has been cancelled.  Smith told Patch she was calling off her event because of a Cobb candidates debate and forum tonight in Marietta.  That forum, organized by the Cobb NAACP, starts at 7 p.m. at the Cobb government building on 100 Cherokee Street. The NAACP forum also will be shown on TV 23, the Cobb government public access cable outlet.  Smith's town-hall meeting was scheduled for the Mountain View Community Center and was to have focused on the July 31 one-percent regional transportation sales tax referendum.  "This debate was scheduled after mine but it is more extensive and I didn't wish to detract from it," said Smith, a …

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