Comments on: The Next Fox 5 Target

By: Game Fan

Game Fan — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:30:15 +0000

I guess it’s a great analogy for the same reason. (You can’t sweep it all under the rug.)

By: AthensRepublican

AthensRepublican — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:46:31 +0000

Is there any Republican that would be acceptable to you? Care to elaborate on Johnson’s issues and transgressions?

By: Mad Dog

Mad Dog — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:08:20 +0000

The drunken Speaker was recorded on a cell phone with his shoes off doing a standing dance just off the dance floor from a GOP …. we’ll call it an event.

By: Joshua Morris

Joshua Morris — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:43:29 +0000

Inquiring minds want to know what you ‘heard.’

By: Mad Dog

Mad Dog — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:22:59 +0000

fundy,

I’ve filed a complaint or two. Supplied hard documents. Lists of witnesses. Knowing the complaint would die.

Did it to make the information public. Putting together a good package of material can take months especially when gathering information from the Securities and Exchange Commission, the FDIC, and the Federal Reserve.

Let me mention that even when I got documents, information was redacted. I had to pay for the documents. I had to ‘barter’ for and accept less than I asked for. And the State of Georgia refused to release ‘banking’ information because the ‘files’ were sealed.

Unless I wanted to sue them, … of course.

So giving hard copy documents to Johnson means nothing. He looks first for dismissal. Maybe just lazy.

By: fundy1611

fundy1611 — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:17:59 +0000

I’m not for witch-hunts based on rumors. “Common knowledge” means that the rumors were wide known. Again, Mrs. Richardson had the proof and didn’t provide it. Now that she has provided it, he’s gone. To have wasted tax payer’s money in the mean-time would have been unjustified.

By: Mad Dog

Mad Dog — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:17:46 +0000

I heard the Speaker had been video recorded by a GOP operative ‘without his shoes on’ in a public venue with the lobbyist.

The affair was freaken public not just common knowledge.

By: Mad Dog

Mad Dog — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:16:15 +0000

Soup?
Barf?
Spew?
Human excrement?
Slime?
Scum?

I like the post, Si.

By: Game Fan

Game Fan — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:10:38 +0000

That’s an OK analogy except for the fact that it would be difficult to sweep soup under a rug.

By: ByteMe

ByteMe — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:07:39 +0000

You seriously mean you don’t remember the day after day articles in the AJC about the affair? That’s what’s called “common knowledge”, since everyone in the corridors of the capitol were snickering about it (if they weren’t scared of being caught in the same position).

By: fundy1611

fundy1611 — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:12:56 +0000

Where are the other documents that were given to the ethics committee at that time?

By: Scottf

Scottf — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:03:51 +0000

“Maybe the PSC can look into what all of the AGL lobbyists, including chief lobbyist Lindsay Thomas, did at the time.” Sounds good until you know who the lobbyist in question worked for before she worked for AGL.

By: macho

macho — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:54:57 +0000

I’ve always thought the story would be more interesting had AGL actually gotten the pipeline and the lobbyist was still employed there.

By: ByteMe

ByteMe — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:23:17 +0000

Yeah, if you limit your knowledge to a single document, it does seem rather flimsy, doesn’t it?

By: fundy1611

fundy1611 — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:02:21 +0000

Has anyone read this?

http://alt.cimedia.com/ajc/complaint.pdf

“It is common knowledge that Speaker Richardson engaged in a
personal relationship with a lobbyist for the utility advocating passage of the bill.”

That’s all the proof the guy provided? Just stating that is was common knowledge? And you nut-heads wanted the Ethics Committee to start dragging people in to testify about who slept with who?!?!?!?

What am I missing here? Doesn’t seem anything was done because Mrs. Richardson was holding all the cards.

By: Silent Outrage

Silent Outrage — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:51:18 +0000

To paraphrase Bob Hope who used to say “thanks for the memories”… to Eric Johnson we say, “thanks for the scandals”.

Promoting you to be Governor would be like promoting a prisoner to be warden just because he was in jail. It doesn’t make sense and neither does your candidacy.

Georgia needs new leadership.

By: Silent Outrage

Silent Outrage — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:48:25 +0000

Eric Johnson. A man with the most convenient set of morals this side of the Mississippi who can turn his “moral convictions” on like a light switch. One minute he’s a good Christian soldier, the next minute he’s lying, cheating and stealing. While scandals and corruption were the soup de jour down at the Gold Dome, Ethics Chairman Johnson busily swept them under the rug so as not to face the scrutiny from his own issues and transgressions.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:23:15 +0000

George Hooks (D-Americus) was involved in that? Interesting indeed…

By: sofnbc

sofnbc — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:07:33 +0000

Does the General Assembly have subpoena powers? Can anyone be “made” to testify at any committee meeting? According to the Georgia State Constitution the answer is no.

How can a committee do an investigation if they cannot subpoena people to testify?

By: Georgia Politico

Georgia Politico — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:36:11 +0000

Here's that first SOURCE again. Apologies to the confused readers.