Former bounty hunter wants to clean up the streets and help the homeless
If Sylvester Roberts was mayor of Macon, he says he’d clean up the city.
But maybe not in the ways you might expect a former bounty hunter to solve that problem.
Roberts, 49, said he wanted to cut down on taxes, help police officers, fix up empty buildings and help keep people off the streets.
“Those things are very important because we have a lot of people that’s homeless on the streets,” he said. “Not just blacks. We got whites, Koreans … you got some of them that you don’t even see and they homeless. Some of them don’t even want the help. They like living on the streets. But they shouldn’t have to. They’ve got all these empty buildings that they could fix up.”
Roberts — who was born in Macon, raised in New York and came back to the city eight years ago — was particularly worried about younger residents.
“You’ve got kids out here sleeping, young kids,” he said. “They don’t have no (after-school programs). There’s not a lot of activities for kids.”
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