Today is Your Chance, DeKalb! Get Out and VOTE for CHANGE!

OK DeKalb:

If you want to stop the Cityhood movement in its tracks; If you want to avoid the economic and fiscal fiasco that will most assuredly follow; If you want to insure better racial/political relationships in DeKalb and change the trajectory of where we go from here: You have to get out and vote tomorrow; YOU HAVE TO MAKE SURE, Nathan Deal keeps his grubby dirty paws out of DeKalb Politics forever. Republicans want to create a new Detroit is South DeKalb and tear apart Central DeKalb so they can have gated communities they call cities, Don't let them win. Get Out and VOTE!

(From a member of the Save Tucker! group)

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