Why Some Local Leaders Outside Atlanta are Not Pushing the T-SPLOST: A Conversation with Newnan Mayor Keith Brady

By Denis O'Hayer

Atlanta, GA – While Governor Nathan Deal, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, and other metro Atlanta leaders have started an all-out push for a regional transportation sales tax, some local leaders on the fringes of the Atlanta area are torn. Many of their voters oppose a penny-on-the-dollar sales tax increase to pay for regional transportation projects. Voters will decide in July.

WABE's Denis O'Hayer spoke with one leading voice from the outer edges of Atlanta's metro area. Keith Brady has served as Mayor of Newnan since 1994.