Opponents to Atlanta's cop city project are running a referendum campaign which seeks to cancel it entirely.

The city government, which seems to be motivated by something we can only guess at, tried several times to sabotage the petition drive.

Surely the would-be contractors see an opportunity to profit, but I doubt that the profit would be big enough to motivate such stiff insistence from the city government. I have a hunch that something nastier is at work, something more deeply related to right-wing politics.

I doubt that the contractors who would build it have enough money to gain that they would find it worth while to put a lot of money into stiffening politicians' support for the project.