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Snellville City Councilwoman Kelly Kautz is continuing her politically-motivated assault on a private business.  Her proposed air quality ordinance could cost the Snellville crematory as much as $250,000 for air quality monitoring equipment.  I believe crematory owner Chris Nuzum hits the nail on the head in saying, "The city would like to make it cost prohibitive so we would have to close shop."

These actions show that elected officials like Kelly Kautz are what is wrong with government.  She says she "doing this for the health of our citizens and our environment", though this assertion rings hollow given that the need for or efficacy of this ordinance is questionable at best.  If Nuzum is right, Kautz is apparently willing to use the power of government to effectively put a legal business whose owner has followed all laws out of commission.  This is an absolute disgrace.  I do not know if Snellville has a recall law, but I would hope that someone would investigate whether such a citizen response is possible.  Regardless, if this is the disdain that a Snellville elected official shows to private business in her city, I am inclined to no longer spend any money with businesses within the Snellville city limits.  I hate to harm innocent businesses, but I would hope that eventually Snellville residents would realize that such behavior on the part of elected officials is absolutely unacceptable and would act to keep Snellville from being a dangerous precedence for other local governments.