Oconee County, GA Politics

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Oconee County, Georgia residents are finally starting to learn about the repeated pattern secret meetings and decisions about the future of their increasingly corrupt sewage as well. Lee Becker deserves a medal for having the mettle to battle with the Oconee County Board of Commissioners' secrecy armed only with Open Records requests. He has exposed numerous clandestine gatherings and been downright stonewalled when it comes to the latest request for records surrounding the bidding process for our sewer treatment. Chairman Davis continues to expedite his own political obituary by obscuring Oconee County dealings in various governmental matters. Sunshine shall bring us spring and a new chairman for the Board of Commissioners soon, given governmental transparency to make the cockroaches of corruption scatter. The following was sent to me by Lee Becker and I insist you check out his blog and urge him to run for the BOC in at least a write-in basis in 2008. Dear Friends, The County co...

The five radio stations owned by Paul Stone and Southern Broadcasting are now owned by the same media conglomerate Cox Communications that owns WSB and the AJC and hopefully the conservative Mr. Stone can go back to where ever he came from (Elberton, Pensacola?) with the $60 million. Does this mean we get Clark Howard and Neil Boortz 24-7? Herman Cain can now guffaw with his buddy Tim Bryant all the time? Matt Caesar and Babs Dooley will have to make room for Sean Hannity? We shall hear, I'm sure

Media Advisory: January 15, 2008 Contact: Martin Matheny 706-461-0439 (m) 678-278-2108 (o) martin@georgiademocrat.org *Democrats to present response to "State of the State" address* * **ATLANTA - *State Representative Kathy Ashe (D-Atlanta) will be presenting the Democratic response to the Governor's State of the State address on Wednesday, January 16 at 4:00 p.m. Representative Ashe will speak to members of the House and Senate Democratic caucuses and area Democrats at the Capitol Education Center auditorium, located at 180 Central Avenue, near the Capitol. -30- Paid for and authorized by the Democratic Party of Georgia: 1100 Spring Street NW, Suite 408, Atlanta, Ga 30309. Jane V. Kidd, Chair; Michael Thurmond, Vice-Chair; Rex Templeton, Jr., Treasurer. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.

None of the many mistakes made by Oconee County Board of Commissioners chair G. Melvin David by themselves rise to the level of an impeachable or criminal offense, but the continued pattern of subterfuge and ignorance of immediate county needs does point to a level of incompetence and boorish behavior which bodes poorly for Oconee County's future. I believe this necessitates a new level of leadership on the top elected officer level. Chairman Davis is a decent man, but I think we can do a whole lot better. For those of you tired of reading the list of errors, I suggest you skip ahead a few paragraphs. But here is something I posted in the Athens Banner-Herald's new political page a few days ago: 10. Testifying on behalf of convicted felon Jim Ivey 9. Holding secret meetings illegally in Madison and other clandestine planning debacles 8. Not calling for a BOC vote on beer and wine in restaurants in Oconee County. 7. No public swimming facilities yet at new park despite a donatio...