Democrats seek to 'Dissolve' Cities in Georgia

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Couldn't fit full title: The key point it is to try to dissolve these cities for being 'too white.'

First read about it:
http://nation.foxnews.com/georgia/2011/ ... es-georgia

Source:
The Georgia Legislative Black Caucus filed a lawsuit Monday against the state of Georgia seeking to dissolve the city charters of Dunwoody, Sandy Springs, Johns Creek, Milton and Chattahoochee Hills. Further, the lawmakers, joined by civil rights leader the Rev. Joseph Lowery, aim to dash any hopes of a Milton County.

The lawsuit, filed in a North Georgia U.S. District Court Monday, claims that the state circumvented the normal legislative process and set aside its own criteria when creating the “super-majority white ” cities within Fulton and DeKalb counties. The result, it argues, is to dilute minority votes in those areas, violating the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution.

“This suit is based on the idea that African Americans and other minorities can elect the people of their choice,” said Democratic State Sen. Vincent Fort.

The Office of the Governor and the Office of the Attorney General declined comment pending further review of the case.

Rep. Lynne Riley, R-Johns Creek, called the lawsuit “frivolous” and “disrespectful to the citizens of these cities who are most satisfied with their government.”

Riley was active in creating Sandy Springs and the subsequent cities while serving as a Fulton County commissioner.

“These jurisdictions were based on geography and nothing else,” she said. “We haven’t seen any evidence of any disadvantage based on the creation of new cities. We’ve watched the Fulton County budget continue to grow … to say there was damage done by this creation, there are no facts to support that, and I would reject it.”
http://www.ajc.com/news/lawsuit-seeks-d ... 88729.html

Should we dissolve Chicago because it is 'too black?' I mean seriously, this latest stance by the Democrats is just plain frivolous lawsuits at best, and outright racist bigotry at worst.

No one should have the right to dissolve anyone's city or town - not liberals in this case, and not conservatives in Wisconsin, where governor Walker and conservative state legislators are seeking this power.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

This Georgia bit isn't a good thing.

But I take it you're a-ok with the emergency powers bill in Michigan which will give the governor there the power to dissolve municipalities and throw out any elected officials at will.

I'm missing the part where this was a Democrat initiative...

These cities were just created as part of a scheme to carve out a mostly-white county out of Fultton and DeKalb Counties (they plan to call the new county Milton County). The purpose of this is to not have to pay for Atlanta public transit and for other such things thus forcing massive service cuts and tax rises for the heavily black areas. The plaintiffs maintain that the law was not properly followed in carrying out this scheme and that it is motivated by racism and civil rights denial.