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On Friday of this week, the Forsyth County News ran an ad paid for by the “Cumming Forsyth Tax Relief Committee” which shows the depths to which this committee will stoop in order to sell their campaign of lies and misinformation to Forsyth County voters.
The ad liberally uses quotes from my personal website, taken without my permission, and uses them completely out of context in order to convince voters that I am against the SPLOST VI tax referendum. In no place in that ad do they reference the fact that I was talking about a school system SPLOST, and not the most well-researched, best-justified SPLOST referendum in the history of Forsyth County; namely the SPLOST VI referendum currently in front of Forsyth County voters.

I want it clear to everyone who reads this article on cumminghome.com, the one unbiased news source in Forsyth County, that I am 100% in favor of renewing the penny tax as specified in SPLOST VI.

This despicable attempt to use my own words to defeat something that I wholeheartedly agree with is not surprising, given some of the members of that committee. But to have the name of what once was a respected judge in this county putting his name on such a dishonest ad is a crying shame. That the editors of the Forsyth County News would print that ad without verifying the truth of the ad is also not surprising, as the rules they state for members of organizations they agree with do not apply for organizations or individuals they do not agree with. Any competent news organization would have had the decency to call the person being quoted in the ad and asked if the statements were true; the Forsyth County News never called me. Yet they allowed the use of my words without permission to be printed in their sorry excuse for a newspaper.

If you want the facts about SPLOST VI, read the unbiased coverage on cumminghome.com which includes real-time responses about the lies being generated by the anti-SPLOST committee articles, or go to my website at www.davidrichard.info and click on the Hot Topics item on the navigation bar. Go to www.splost6.com. But remember this: the anti-SPLOST committee has printed up what is a virtual laundry list of lies from the very beginning, and they are what my mom used to call “stupid lies”, because they can be easily disproved with readily available facts. Don’t believe a single thing they say.

SPLOST VI is the best way to fund transportation and public safety improvements. Period. No ifs, ands or buts about it. I urge all voters to vote YES and renew SPLOST.

David W. Richard

Forsyth County Commissioner, District 4