Tuesday, September 18, 2007
News Ethics complaint just got stronger
Posted by Scott Henry @ScottTheHenry on Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 10:12 PM
By tomorrow morning, south Fulton voters may have referendumed themselves into their own new city — in which case this blog post will be obsolete.
But if the incorporation vote fails, Commissioner Bill Edwards may yet have to answer to an ethics complaint accusing him of illegally using county resources to campaign against the creation of the city of South Fulton.
City supporter and local blogger Andre Walker, who has the site Georgia Politics Unfiltered, filed a complaint with the state Ethics Commission in June that claimed the commissioner was responsible for fliers bearing the county logo that quoted Edwards as dissing incorporation. Edwards has denied any connection to the fliers.
The state has taken its customary sweet time in considering the complaint, but Walker would have an uphill battle in linking Edwards to the fliers.
Then, just this week, Walker came across a county memo from South Fulton police precinct Cmdr. Major C. Turner in which he "encouraged" all employees under his command to "volunteer" this past Saturday to go door-to-door to pass out anti-incorporation fliers.
"T-shirt provided by Commissioner Edwards," the memo read.
Hmm, if today's vote fails, the eventual ethics hearing could be interesting.
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