Six days until Sunday sales - and school tax - votes

One of our regular commenters asked an excellent question on Fresh Loaf yesterday that I'd like to address: Why has there been so little publicity or talk about next Tuesday's referenda on Sunday liquor sales and the school tax? In other words, why haven't we seen more press and/or PSAs about these important votes?

First, a little background. Atlanta voters, including those in DeKalb, have two major issues to decide on Tuesday:

• whether to approve package sales of beer, wine and that sweet corn liquor on Sunday, and

• whether to extend the one-cent special-purpose local option sales tax for Atlanta Public Schools

Say what?!? APS officials and schools just spent the past dozen years pocketing an as-yet-determined-but-certainly-huge amount of unearned bonus money from the federal government by falsifying test scores and the system now wants taxpayers to renew a tax to give them more money? Talk about chutzpa!

Just today, the feds revoked the "adequate" standing of half the city's elementary and middle schools due to the cheating scandal, and the state seized control of five of the worst-performing schools. As we await indictments, we haven't even seen the full scope of the fraud or the cover-up, and now they want more of our money?