Milton City Council Member Julie Zahner Bailey

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11 Days and Counting

Dear Neighbors and Friends,

I am writing to ask for your financial support in my current bid to renew my seat on the Milton City Council for the next full term.

Roger Santi, my opponent, has publicly pledged to raise $50,000 to $60,000 to attempt to unseat me. This kind of money is not necessary, but we must be able to get our message out. Even being frugal, it costs money.

Examples of major campaign expense areas include:

    * Signs
    * Car Magnets
    * Newspaper advertisements
    * Campaign handouts

You are probably aware that my opponent is again employing the negative personal attacks against me that he tried unsuccessfully in the last election.

He is attempting to discredit me and downplay the value of the 12 years that I have spent fighting for the same issues that we have to deal with today. His last campaign was funded almost entirely from developers, a private sewer company, and significant individuals outside of Milton. If you know nothing more about his experience or stand on the issues, this says a lot.

I am asking for your support, vote and a financial contribution to help me get my message out to the voting public. Our campaign funding last year was strong, but we need to exceed that amount for this election.

My campaign has been and is fully funded by the local community - it is grass-roots support in every sense of the phrase. While we do not need to meet my opponent's spending levels, we do need to be heard and seen during this final campaign period. Please help me with your vote and a financial contribution if possible.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. I can be reached via email at julie4milton@mindspring.com, or telephone at (404) 310-6344. Donations can be made via Paypal on my website www.julie4milton.com, or send a check to:

Friends of Julie Zahner Bailey
255 Hickory Flat Road
Milton, Georgia 30004

Your support is appreciated.

Sincerely,

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Julie Zahner Bailey

Rivers Alive & NFFC Food Drive

Join us for our annual Rivers Alive event.
Saturday, October 27th
Bailey Farm & Gardens
8:00am - 12:30pm
255 Hickory Flat Road

Bring a non-perishable food item and/or canned goods for the North Fulton Charities Food Drive to Rivers Alive. Junior Troops 326 will have a collection box. Just in time for Thanksgiving! Thanks!

Rivers Alive is Georgia's annual volunteer waterway cleanup event that targets all waterways in the State including streams, rivers, lakes, beaches and wetlands. The mission of Rivers ALive is to create awareness of and involvement in the preservation of Georgia's water resources.

Participants will receive a FREE Rivers Alive t-shirt or patch.

Watch and Compare Candidates for Yourself

The League of Women Voters held a candidate forum on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 in the City of Milton. During the forum each candidate for City Council answered questions with a one minute response limit followed by each candidate having a one minute closing statement.

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The video offered here is the live footage of the District 2 candidates, including Milton City Council member Julie Zahner Bailey and her opponent.

According to the October 17, 2007 Milton Herald article by Jason Wright entitled "Birmingham candidate forum draws crowd":

"Experience with the details of the issues proved the decisive factor of the night... In the race between Roger Santi and incumbent Julie Zahner Bailey, the incumbent's almost encyclopedic knowledge of tax, land use and transportation issues resulted in a quick fire, staccato delivery to her questions. She repeatedly made references to her own voting record and experience with the issues. In closing, she assured the audience she would stand firm on her commitments."

The article went on to say that " Santi has made a point of basing his campaign on dissension in the council, which he repeated in his closing statements after drawing an embarrassing blank."

Click here to learn more about Julie.

According to the Milton Beacon's article "Zahner Bailey Dominates Milton Candidate Forum", written by Paul Kaplan, managing editor:

"One of the three, Julie Zahner Bailey, has obviously taken the challenge to heart. Zahner Bailey completely dominated last week's candidate forum at Birmingham United Methodist Church. She was the best-prepared and most poised of the six candidates, and she did the best job of selling herself and her experience as a citizen-activist to the 150 people in attendance.

Even when Zahner Bailey and Roger Santi, her opponent in District 2, agreed on an issue, Zahner Bailey found a way to separate herself.

Both candidates promised to work to uphold the city's ban on sewer expansion in order to control growth in Milton. Santi added that there's so much support for the ban that it's actually become more of a political issue than a real issue in the city. "It's a real possibility, not a political issue," Zahner Bailey shot back. "I believe we're as close as one [City Council] vote from allowing sewer in this area."

When you compare the candidates, you will see there is only one TRUE choice.
Re-elect Julie Nov 6.

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