The January city council retreat in Kennesaw was supposed to prove James Clifton right. He spent months telling Fayette County residents that city officials had used that meeting to quietly lay the groundwork for a data center. When the retreat recordings were finally released on March 25th, he posted a “PEACHTREE CITY DATA CENTER UPDATE” declaring that everything he said was confirmed.
However, the newly released recordings tell a very different story. So does the record of how Clifton got access to information about that retreat in the first place.
My March 9th column established who Clifton is and what he has done to this community. This column is about what the recordings actually show, what a sitting councilmember’s role in all of this tells us about who she is as an elected official, and what Fayette County voters should do about both of them.
Who Clifton Is and What He Has Done
Before working through the new evidence, it is worth briefly restating what my last column established because Clifton is counting on voters forgetting it…