Oconee County, GA Politics

So how does this feel, Doug? To know that your legislation is at least partially responsible for the bombings of five Atlanta area clinics? Is this what God told you to do when you were born again? What does your conscious tell you about unintended consequences? Doctors fear testifying at Capitol  | ajc.com

Investigators seek evidence in suspicious fire that burns Oconee home | Online Athens

Authorities Say Saturday Fire on Daniels Bridge Road is 'Suspicious in Origin'

I realize that a fire set at 3:47 am Sunday morning might be occurring at the most inopportune time possible for the sleepy Athens and Oconee County media and bloggers, but I am somewhat astonished that no one else - not the Banner-Herald, not the Enterprise and no other bloggers - have picked up on the apparent arson of the Watkinsville police officer William Horton's golf cart, car, and house in very near Main Street in downtown? I came home from Atlanta late Mother's Day afternoon and after watching some NBA playoff basketball was somewhat surprised to see Watkinsville Police Chief Lee O'Dillon talking about one of his own on the evening news out of Atlanta. Apparently WSB TV was the only one of the three Atlanta television news channels to send a reporter to Oconee County as the other two pretty much rehashed the Associated Press reports with the offer of the $10,000.00 reward from State Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine's office. But again I am somewhat disturbe...