Sworn testimony threatens to fold Deal
From: "Bryan Long, Better Georgia" bryan@bettergeorgia.com Date: 09/23/2013 8:35 AM (GMT-05:00) To: Subject: Sworn testimony. Common Cause Georgia, the nonpartisan ethics watchdog, issued a warning: " It looks like we now have the kind of scandal so many of us have feared ." We know Gov. Deal's scandal is bad, not because of politics , but because of sworn testimony . The governor's attorney told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Georgia's top ethics chief, "held us to the highest level of scrutiny and didn't do us any favors." But Holly LaBerge's sworn testimony tells a different story. As Gov. Deal's hand-picked head of the state ethics commission, LaBerge, admits the governor's office called her in May 2011 to see if she would be interested in replacing the sitting ethics chief who was, at precisely the same time, preparing to subpoena Gov. Nathan Deal's financial recor...