For those who thought Stacey Kalberman would go away quietly after having her salary cut and then her “resignation accepted” when she protested, they are now welcomed back into reality. Kalberman has filed suit in Fulton County Superior Court against the Ethics Commission, Holly LeBarge, and Patrick Millsaps for wrongful termination.
According to her complaint:
Between March and May of 2010, Kalberman became aware of three third-party complaints made against a gubernatorial candidate (the ‘candidate’) concerning his campaign’s compliance with the Georgia Campaign Finance Act,” the complaint states.
“The candidate had reappointed Millsaps to his position on the commission.
“The commission’s investigation revealed troubling irregularities with the candidate’s campaign financial disclosures.”
After the candidate’s counsel ignored her request for documents, Kalberman says, she prepared draft subpoenas for the commission’s review.
Kalberman says she discussed the subpoenas with Millsaps at least four times and told him that “the candidate’s campaign had possibly violated campaign contribution limits on many occasions.” But she says Millsaps asked her to keep the matter in “strict confidence” and refused to sign the subpoenas.
The complaint states that at no point did Kalberman actually resign, and accuses Millsaps of spreading “false rumors to the press and to the public”.
Kalberman is seeking damages under the Georgia Whistleblower Act, and seeks compensation for intentional infliction of emotional distress.
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Watch out fan. Here **it comes.
Nuts, the courthousenews.com link is currently dead, and so is another one from today also about Kalberman. Weird.
Awesome, the link is live again.
Deal should have offered her a judgeship to go away. Seems like it helped with his federal case.
**snicker**
Cue attacks on Kalberman’s intelligence, work demeanor, and social behavior in 3…2…1…
Kalberman is a dumb, incompetent socially-awkward bureaucrat.
Ed, you fail. Bridget said, 3…2…1…
You’re almost 19 hours too late.
Transparency law and funding is working as intended. The transparency of the handling and disposition of 2010 campaign complaints 1.5 years after their filing proves it.
Kalberman is a woman who would give clear, knowledgable answers to legal/rules questions, or else go find the clear, knowledgable answer and relay it.
Good for Kalberman, it’s about time somebody exposed Raw Deal as the ignorant crook most know him to be. Recall!
How one politician has gotten away with so much corruption over so many years is beyond belief.
Karma is eventually going to catch up with him and it ain’t going to be pretty.
Well, if I recall, we knew about the shadiness before Deal even set foot in the governor’s office. Some folks decided to vote him into office anyway, and some of those folks act like this is surprising.
Those folks who voted for him are the ones that basically will need to see Nathan Deal live on television stealing candy from children before they’ll believe he might be crooked.
And even then they might say it’s special effects.
It’s amazing the power that a Republican governor has over a Democratic Justice Department. (That’s sarcasm, by the way.) You Deal-haters must really be dismayed that he has turned out to be a very effective and well-liked governor, both inside and outside of the Gold Dome. Deal with it.
What does the “Democratic Justice Department” have to do with anything?
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