Last night at a state-mandated millage rate increase hearing Cobb County District 4 Commissioner Lisa Cupid, the only Democrat and the only African-American on the Board of Commissioners, gave an impassioned closing statement defending the tax increase to fund county services.
She contrasted the BOC’s arbitrary cutting of the millage rate in the past with the speed with which the commission was willing to fund Suntrust Park, the Braves stadium.
Cupid made national news a few years ago when she was tailed by a Cobb County policeman. In that incident, the county commission of that time was unsupportive of her regarding the harassment she received, and the police officer was later recorded on dash-cam making racist statements at a traffic stop unrelated to Cupid’s complaint.
I’ve posted a transcript of her remarks along with the video of her making them at this link.