Meet the man pushing for the racially motivated push for Buckhead to secede from Atlanta.
They are calling Buckxit. Tuckums even did his bit on his show about it.
No matter what these folks say. It is about race. It is always about race.
Crime has gone up all over America. White folks separating themselves from black folks does not solve the issue of crime.
And guess what folks? The same crime affects poor neighborhoods. They can't pick up and cut themselves off from the rest of Atlanta.
Perhaps if rich folks focused on inequities and worked with leadership and communities to solve issues, there would be less crimes.
Atlanta is truly a place of the haves and the have nots. You don't have to drive very far to see the disparities between sprawling Mcmansions expensive high rise condos and then see homelessness and poverty. There is a whole lotta whining from rich folks about Atlanta " taking their money and they are not getting services". Uhm Buckhead is in Atlanta. Atlanta is not taking your money. I lived in Gwinnett County where home property tax is ridamdiculous. Better schools. I never complained even though I have no school aged children.
Speaking of crime. Funny how privileged entitled white men don't seem to have a problem with " white collar crime". IMO, that is worse than the poor person that commits a crime out of desperation or feels that there is no other way for them to survive.
Keep in mind that Alan Hevesi went to prison.
William “Bill” White, an unlicensed placement agent and former fundraiser for Alan G. Hevesi, former New York state comptroller, agreed to pay a $1 million settlement to the state for his role in the so-called pay-to-play scandal involving the $124.8 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund, Albany.
In addition, Mr. White will cooperate with state Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo's ongoing investigation and abide by Mr. Cuomo's code of conduct, prohibiting placement agents from doing business with New York pension funds, according to a news release from Mr. Cuomo.
][link:https://www.pionline.com/article/20100916/ONLINE/100919924/1-million-settlement-made-with-n-y-state-over-pay-to-play|
NY businessman fueling movement to secede wealthy suburb from Atlanta
A modern civil war in Atlanta is being led by a carpetbagger with deep roots in the Big Apple.
Bill White, 54, is fueling the growing movement by the wealthy, mostly-white suburb of Buckhead to secede from the city of Atlanta — even though he’s a born-and-bred Yankee from New York City who only moved down south three years ago.
Witnessing the increased lawlessness drove White to pursue the effort to make Buckhead, where the median listed home price is close to $600,00, its own city, with its own police and court system, he said.
“We had some guy come up our driveway and try to steal our car. My sister’s home was robbed and her neighbor’s home was robbed. Our friends have been carjacked. They have had their cars broken into,” White recalled.
Buckhead City would triple the number of cops in the area and pay them better than the Atlanta Police Department, which he believes is being undercut by Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms. Buckhead courts, he claimed, would not be lenient with lawbreakers.
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Once a prominent Democratic donor who even held a $25,000-a-plate dinner for President Obama in 2014, White dramatically switched sides in 2016 after President Trump’s victory and went on to become a mega GOP fundraiser
][link:https://nypost.com/2021/10/09/ny-businessman-fueling-movement-to-secede-suburb-from-atlanta/|
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