I take no delight in seeing people’s personal lives damaged, nevertheless this story is news. Sadly, the way in which the case was handled will certainly raise questions.
House Speaker Glenn Richardson and his wife filed for divorce, completed the dissolution of their marriage and got court records of the proceedings sealed — all in a single afternoon last week.
The Richardsons appeared privately on Wednesday before a Paulding County Superior Court judge who was not even assigned to their case. The judge, James Osborne, is a former partner in Richardson’s law firm.
The judge to whom the case was assigned, Tommy Beavers, said Friday he does not know why the case ended up in Osborne’s court. Beavers said Osborne told him he had received the divorce documents before they were officially filed.
The fast-track divorce defied normal procedures as it sped through the Paulding County Courthouse in Dallas, allowing Richardson to keep most details private, including any that might reflect on his performance as a public official.
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Shrike, I understand that you Dems have to dance with the one that brung ye…It’s just too bad it has to be a guy who’s only remembered world wide for swabbing off on a blue dress. LMAO!
He was acquitted of perjury and obstruction of justice.
I’d rather have the dude that got blown in the oval office, than the largest political moron in our nation’s history who also just happened to start a war based on lies that led to 3,960 U.S. servicemen and women dead – as well as gutted the personal liberties of this nation’s inhabitants..
But that’s just me…
First of all Bill, I’m pretty sure I’m quite familiar with what war is. Second, it’s rather convenient to sweep aside the balance of powers between the branches when it suits your needs. Which is exactly what Reagan offiicials did. Which is why there were a swarm of convictions and pardons at the end of his Presidency. Not that dissimilar from your argument about Clinton. Many would argue much worse.
Julie, the only trial of Clinton ever was the impeachment. He was acquitted in this trial therefore it is hardly a given he lied under oath.
The fact remains the founders established the threshold for impeachment as the highest of all our laws. Now the House certainly defines what constitutes the rather vague terms. But in my opinion they lowered the threshold significantly by bringing such a ridiculous case to the Senate for trial and in the process tarnished themselves easily as much as Clinton in their eyes tarnished the Presidency.
Having said all that. The fact remains Clinton was acquitted of all charges. This is something you will never be able to avoid.
The acquittal was just as partisan as the charges. Fact is that Clinton lied under oath, but for questions that he shouldn’t have had to answer.
The fact is this is not news, only gossip.
Article III, Section 7, Constitution of Georgia. The judges of Superior Court, or ANY ONE OF THEM, shall have power to issue writs…
Section 9, Divorces shall…have…a… trial before a superior court judge…
DUH-ah, nothing in there about having a superior court clerk set the agenda or make a ruling.
On the perjury charge 10 Republicans voted not guilty
Maybe if Clinton had been around to give the order to take Osama out, instead of doing things like getting blown in the oval office things would have turned out a little differently.
Well now we’ve steered off the rails.
A certain network reporter was talking about taking up ‘the original story’ again, regarding the speaker…. Could be interesting
A certain network gossip, a monger of lewd reporting was talking about taking up ‘the original story.’
Again, regarding the monger/reporter…a lewd monger of gossip is just that, a gossip and not a reporter.
The man and his former wife just went through a week of hell. Some of their best friends were killed in a plane crash and thier marriage ended. Cut them some slack and have some sympathy for their kids.
On the perjury charge 10 Republicans voted not guilty
Actually, nine voted not guilty, one voted “not proved.”
The House managers were screwed from the start by their counterparts in the Senate.
Back to the issue at hand:
To prevent judge shopping, cases are randomly assigned when filed. The Tax Jesus ignored the judge to whom the case was assigned and went to his old law partner, who was sitting on the bench that day, and got his divorce heard. For those of you not members of the bar, the only times you can file and get heard on the same day are when there is an “emergency” and then the relief is only temporary. If a husband was beating his wife and after leaving the hospital with broken limbs and black eyes she stopped off at the local courthouse to file for divorce, the wife could not get a final decree of divorce that day.
Many counties require divorcing parents with kids to attend a DHR course and show compliance to the court before the divorce. Does Paulding and was this another requirement waived?
As stated before, the division of property is VERY important as well as the current residence of the Tax Jesus. Is he now a full-time Fulton County resident? Or is the property on SSI his home?
In making the decision to run for political office, the Tax Jesus decided that his life would be lived under a bigger spotlight than Joe from Alma. He has to abide by and live under the same rules that the rest of us do and when he gets something that appears to be special treatment, he’s got to be able to explain how it was not or face the consequences.
The man got a divorce. He didn’t kill anyone. He wasn’t found with a crack pipe. It wasn’t like he used any leverage to get out of any time in the slammer. Let’s put this in perspective. I understand that there are people out there who do not like this guy and would call it a major story if he accidentally sneezed on somebody. And besides elected official or not we are all human. If anyone in here tells me that you don’t use any special treatment if it is given to you then I would be surprised. It’s called networking people, that’s how the world works.
Welcome to the New Georgia.
I find it telling that so many here are willing to look the other way when it suits them. What happened to morals? Ethics?
Bobby Kahn,
Some things never change, eh?
This new crowd even makes Rosco Dean look brilliant.
RoscoE that is.
This new crowd even makes Rosco Dean look brilliant.
Since they don’t make Bobby look brilliant, I would think he would take that as an insult.
Morals and ethics? They were the residue on the blue dress.
Morals? Ethics?
I’ve been dumbed-down by 7 years of Bush, and 5 years of Sonny Perdue and Eric Johnson. I am not responsible for my state of mind when I have THESE fools as my leaders (sic).
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