Welcome to Macon Mayoral Buzzword Bingo! As the candidates for Macon’s next mayor make their final pleas for our votes, you will notice their tendency to use buzzwords when discussing complicated issues facing our community.
You’ll find a Bingo board below. Instead of a number, you’ll find a buzzword. When a mayoral candidate uses a buzzword, cross it off your board. When you have five buzzwords in a row - vertically, horizontally or diagonally - you’ve won Macon Mayoral Buzzword Bingo!
| White | Family Man | Make Forest Hill Road narrower | Raise bond rating | Downsize City Council |
| Consolidate with Payne City | Tax anticipation note | Increase payscale | Fire city auditor | “I don’t have Ellis endorsement” |
| Noble Investment Group | Lower Taxes | Partisan city elections | Decrease payscale | Vote Democrat |
| National Ventures Macon | Sex, lies and videotape | Confrontational | Runoff | Last days of C. Jack |
| Upsize city surplus | Non-partisan city elections | Centreplex deficit | Privatize garbage pickup | Black |
(Images courtesy of macon.com.)
14 responses so far ↓
1 Cotton Avenue Solon // Jul 15, 2007 at 9:33 pm
What is my payoff if I win this bingo? A free trip to Ghana with C-Jack?
How about the following for future buzzwords:
” $ Seven million boondoggle airport”
“Sister City program not bringing in
$ millions to city coffers”
“New courthouse needed at city landfill”
“Tax assessors are overworked and overwhelmed”
“Middle Georgia Regional Airport to become United Airlines’ 6th major hub”
“Downtown parking problem”
“A professional interim CAO to be named”
“City Finance Office needs computer updates”
“Interim Aviation Director to be fired”
“Yard signs stolen”
“City needs a Chief Financial Officer”
“Urban campers are not homeless”
“Expand midnight rugby”
“Police and fireman’s pension fund”
“Community policing works”
“C. Jack Ellis is not Hakim Mansour Ellis”
“Parking fines, municipal court fees & garbage fees to be collected”
2 wmccnews // Jul 15, 2007 at 9:55 pm
Midnight rugby?
3 Cotton Avenue Solon // Jul 15, 2007 at 11:11 pm
When our city government is spending our tax dollars we must make sure that ALL segments of the community benefit…even those spoiled, rich, white boys in North Macon.
In Palm Beach the mayor is starting midnight polo matches…in Beverly Hills
it’s midnight volleyball….Macon must keep up with the times!
4 Erick // Jul 16, 2007 at 11:47 am
Your forgot “racial reconciliation”
5 Anonymous // Jul 17, 2007 at 9:41 am
New city flag needed!
6 Donnieb // Jul 17, 2007 at 11:46 am
New City Flag Needed!
7 MISS AMERICAN PIE // Jul 17, 2007 at 12:37 pm
This morning a saw two busses heading north on Pio Nono that were Houston County School busses. Just wondering if these busses were being leased by some of our fine outstanding politicians to bus people to the polls or were they coming for a field trip for children to witness this historic election? Inquiring minds want to know.
8 Cotton Avenue Solon // Jul 17, 2007 at 11:40 pm
New city flag needed. NOT!
9 Anonymous // Jul 18, 2007 at 12:55 am
Miss Pie,
If they were on Pio Nono, they were learning how to design Warner Robins to include a title pawn, bikini bar and massage parlor on every corner.
10 MISS AMERICAN PIE // Jul 18, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Oh Anonymous, you do not have to tell me a thing. I drive that terrible road to go to the post office, etc… It makes me cry! And now, across from our once lovely home, these morons that bought Bridgewood nine hole golf course have taken all of the beautiful trees out, and built a mosquito haven of a retention pond, and now these big tree movers are behind my house taking out the beautiful trees for more houses at Oakview. Our beautiful country setting is vanishing before my weeping eyes. Where in the devil is that Bert Bivins, our Commissioner? I can’t reach him on the phone. Does he ever work? I am sick, sick, sick. I tell you. My eleven year old is crying and wants me to go get him some picket signs and some tee shirts to get people motivated to save the trees! Lord help me my child is saying he wants Al Gore to run for President. Where did I go wrong? I have been preaching fiscal conservaatism to him since I breast fed him, and this liberal media is defeating me. Pio Nono is turning into a gheto, and now developers are destroying Hartley Bridge Road. Can a turnaround save us Doc Holliday? Somebody help us! God save the USA!
11 Cotton Avenue Solon // Jul 18, 2007 at 2:22 pm
You’ve got me almost in tears, Miss A Pie. Please don’t fret….help is on the way!!
12 kturnerga // Jul 19, 2007 at 12:25 am
Miss Pie:
I think we need to worry about the low-rent housing that might be slithering from Houston Road at GA247 over to the Hartley Brige Road intersection. How many parents of gangstas will be able to buy one of those plastic houses near Sardis Church even at 105,000.00?
I love development but we don’t need to go loony. Plus I’ve got some skinny on the new Bridgewood pond; I hear it might retain less water than anything Jack Ellis has to say. Those ’skeeters don’t have but a smidgin of a chance.
I worry that Houston Road might end up like Pio Nono Avenue because of so many lots for sale as commercial property. Let’s not build anything commercial except near the major intersections. I don’t want to see major developments except at the Hartley Bridge exit or the new Sardis Church exit.
But can’t we at least have a Hardee’s and a seafood restaurant out our way?
13 MISS AMERICAN PIE // Jul 19, 2007 at 6:40 pm
Shannon’s Cafe has great Talipia and shrimp! She is the daughter of the family that owned Polly’s Seafood, and her restaurant is in the little stip mall with the Mexican restaurant. Ditto on the plastic houses. The development is out of control. I don’t have any solutions because you cannot lead a horse to water and you cannot force people to take pride in their property when it turns into rental property. If I would have had the ability to see into the future, you can bet that my husband and I would have sold a couple of years ago when interest rates were less than 5%. Hindsight is always 20/20.
14 Cotton Avenue Solon // Jul 19, 2007 at 7:40 pm
Not to worry, KTURNERGA. Even though Saleem’s Fish Supreme has decided not to build on Hartley Bridge Rd., rumor has it that Allen Peake will do a Captain D’s out there just for you!
If you haven’t noticed, Hardees has closed all of their restaurants in Macon in the last several years. Again, please don’t fret………Hakim’s Shito Express Cafe has decided to try a new concept with a double-drive thru unit on Hartley Bridge.
Which side of the road do you want it on?
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