Oconee County, GA Politics

From: "Bryan Long, Better Georgia" Date:07/14/2014 3:31 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Dan Matthews Subject: BREAKING Bombshell memo: Deal's office "threatened" and "pressured" ethics chief Gov. Nathan Deal's house of cards is falling apart. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and WSB-TV, in a joint investigation, exposed a cover-up that reaches all the way into the governor's office. Documents uncovered by the state's largest media outlets show that Gov. Deal's top staffers "threatened and pressured" their hand-picked ethics chief to "make the complaints" against the governor "go away." AJC : Ethics chief claims Deal aides pressured her, threatened agency WSB-TV : Memo: Gov. Deal's staff interfered with ethics case The LaBerge Memo : Memorandum of Record by Holly LaBerge, July 17, 2012 (PDF) The previously secret document, written in t...

This was what Chef Richard Miley of the Watkinsville restaurant Chops and Hops attempting to get in my way with this evening at Barberitos as I enjoyed their new mango salsa. I only wish Miley had done so about a minute and a half later so that Barberitos owner and BOE chair David Weeks could have flattened him with a block to his chest. I was merely trying to enjoy my dinner with my son when this co-owner of the restaurant down the way in Town Center decided to try a little fancy footwork with me. Lucky for him I spied my friends and talked to them in line instead. I probably should have called the Watkinsville Police on him, but they have more important things to do than to clean up the mess of restaurant wars. I know Miley is a former Marine and probably could mop the floor with me, but I do not wish them violence such as that which was talked about in their infamous black and bleu burger about six weeks back. I guess he is in no hurry for me to eat at his restaurant anytime soo...