Oconee County, GA Politics

If there is anything voters in the 10th district should get upset about, this would be it. More Republican duplicity and sleaze; Whitehead whines his way to a recount while having the Norwood fundraisers raking in the dough on Lake Oconee. I am glad that the voters of the 10th district decided to go another route and elect Paul Broun. At least we have a Congressman from Oconee County, Georgia in Washington, DC looking out for our local interests. Nothing that Whitehead did or say ever encouraged any confidence he would work for this end of the district. The Medical College of Georgia is not leaving Augusta. The Navy School sight will become a satellite campus. We need new doctors. Quit your whining, Mr. Whitehead, get back to selling tires. Conceding graciously would be woefully out of character so I suppose it is too much to expect from the Evans former state senator. Some narrow minded people complained about Broun soliciting funds before Norwood died, but I find the Norwood fundrai

Oconee County business man and one time Georgia GOP honcho Jim Ivey is employing a new attorney and strategy in his indefensible crime of embezzling money from the Veterans Fund for a memorial at the new Oconee County Community Complex across from Herman C. Michael Park. According to this story in the ABH (registration required) the new lawyer Kim Stephens wants to move the trial out of county because he could not receive a fair trial locally. If anything, he would receive a more fair and balanced trial here because some local people know this man, know what he stands for, knowns how he lived way beyond his means. District Attorney Ken Mauldin and Defense Attorney Stephens would try to strike jurors who did not subscribe to a particular political philosophy, in my amateur attorney attempt at prophesy of a trial that may or may not start around Thanksgiving. I give thanks that Mauldin stopped the shut down of the Sexual Assault Center here, took the time to get the case worked well