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By tc

January 21, 2008 10:28 AM | Link to this

Bye bye police officers. Crime will skyrocket now! What a stupid decision this was. Eldrin really screwed up this time. http://www.give-em-the-boot.com/

By Rev. Jimmy Jack Bourbon

January 21, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this

Good Morning, my fellow Clayco Reprobates and Thugs. I see from what Ms. Kim is writing that Hizzoner Bell (our beloved Green Eyes from the Fouth Ward) has decided to engage in what some county department heads and police officers would consider to be a draconian cut to save money for the tax payers of the county. There are several ways of looking at this. It is true that when the police officers drove the squad cars home that it provided a bit more visibility of the police in the commnunity, but what about department heads using non-marked vehicles? How does the county profit from this? This may be the right decision from a policy stand point, but from a intra-county-real-politick point of view, this may not have been the wisest move for the Commish to have made. Most of these department head talk. They are currently mad, to be sure, and the rev. expects that they will now go out of their way to take out their frustrations at the polls in the Commission Chair’s race. Remember: People do not usually vote For but Against. There will now be plenty of negative talk eminating from the department heads’ families as well as the police officers’ families about all of the perceived faults of Chairman Bell, especially since his latest move affected their family budgets, even though it might have helped the county budget. Do I hear the faint rumbling of a burgeoning movement to talk State Senator Valencia Seay into running against Eldrin Bell? Her close political ally, State Representative Wade Starr, is a county department head, and he already has two very close allies on the commission who opposed the Bell-led ban on county vehicles being driven home. This latest move would only be a galvanizing point among many visceral points which have been smoldering for a while. The same smoldering issues, points of disagreement and contention, and jockeying which takes place on the county school board take place also on the county commissioner. It’s called politics. By the way, I see that now Mark Elgart wants to say that not any single person nor the school board alone is responsible for the perceived mess in the Clayton County Public Schools. Of the many complaints filed against Ericka Davis and Rod Johnson, Elgart and Team apparently wanted to observe the “passover” because the team just passed right over these complaints without addressing them one bit. However, Elgart and Team apparently realized that the initial complaint that he received from Rod Johson was full of Bull-Junk (to borrow a term that is frequently used in prison) and that Rowdy Rod Johnson and Little Princess Ericka Davis were not pure as the driven snow (an apropo metaphor for this beautiful and cold MLK, Jr. Holiday Weekend) as he and his team might have initially thought. The documents (strong evidentiary documents, the rev. might add) proved otherwise. So now what? Well…, let’s just say that the whole da-n school systems is a mess, Elgart essentially concludes. And, it is going to get just a little worse when the City of Atlanta closes what appears to be the last extant housing project in Atlanta, Bowen Homes. The children in Bowen Homes will not be moved into the high-rise, expensive condos in the Lenox-Piedmont area. As Dick Williams said on a recent Georgia Gang telecast, Isn’t this what Clayton County is for?

Pehaps some of the Bowen Home families should be shuttled up to Alpharetta where Mark Elgart lives, and then let’s see how well his snooty school system could handle some of these ruffians. Clayton County has received the lionshare of displaced project residents, and many of the students from these projects have brought some disturbing anit-social behaviors to Clayco. Perhaps the school system should adopt some of Chairman Bell’s Red Dog tactics that he used when he was the Atlanta Police Chief. Perhaps the school system should contract with Sheriff Victor Hill’s Office to worked in the schools. Something has to be done about the lack of discipline. So far, Norreese Haynes has led the mounting chorus for more discipline in the schools. Again last month, Haynes decried the fact that NOTHING has yet been done on removing the disruptive thugs from the regular school environment. Yes, Mark Elgart, thanks for pointing out the obvious. Perhaps the children from Bowen Homes ought to be shuttled over to Peachtree City, and let’s see if the Shah of Peachtree City who is apparently still suffering from Clayco Addiction can work with these children.

As for the lovely lady from North Alabama now residing in Peachtree City who deigned to suggest that rev. was “Earl” or “John Trotter”, I will only say that I both resemble and resent that statement. I don’t mind you mistaken me for Earl. He and his Mrs. are a lovely couple who still have their domicile in Rex but who spend most of their retirement years in their modest and used condo in Ft. Liqourdale. However, that “John Trotter” is a scoundrel and a rascal. As you know, The Hosea Williams Memorial Church of World Peace and Reconciliation is not only ecumenical in its theology but also quite eclectic in its membership. We have no choice but to accept unconditionally the evil svenghali, John Trotter. Our church is full of reprobates, but Brother Trotter is the most “reprobatest” of all our members. All he does is stir up trouble and cause confusion. In fact, he even insisted that we open up our membership ranks to Laotians and Cambodians, and this really ticked off some of our older brethren, and particularly the sistern. I agreed with him on this matter, and now some of the members are claiming that I am his puppet and that he istructs me on everything that I say in the pulpit. I take it with a grain of salt because most ot these members appear to have been baptized in lemon juice.

Gotta run, my fellow reprobates! Do some act of “random kindness” to honor the memory of Dr. King today. A shout-out to State Senator Gail Davenport for being so faithful in the early and quite oppressive days in Clayco and keeping the memory of Dr. King alive here. I know that she probably felt like a lonely voice in the wilderness. I distinctly remembers the first MLK March through Downtown Jonesboro in 1987. State Representative Wade Starr and Dr. Glenn Dowell participated in that first march. Eula Ponds Perry was the only African American elected to public office in Clayco at the time, unless the little portion of College Park which comes into Clayco off of Godby Road was represented by an African American. I can’t remember this. Heck, I can’t remember everything! Gime me a break! I you you, my Fellow Clayco Thugs! Times…they are a’changin’. Your Reprobate Reverend, Jimmy Jack

By Attn: Clayton Parents

January 21, 2008 11:22 AM | Link to this

Dumbmasses,

Let’s review some FACTS since you want to claim that John Trotter is endorsing “all the candidates who are doing the micromanaging.”

Did John Trotter endorse Ericka Davis, who was caught using state computers on state time on her state job to send micromanaging emails to CCPS employees? I think not

Did John Trotter endorse Rod Johnson, about whom it’s being reported that he’s now sending emails to teachers telling them which legislation they need to support in the Georgia General Assembly? I think not.

Tell us Dumbmasses, what right does Rod Johnson have to use CCPS email to tell teachers what issues to support in their PERSONAL voting lives?!

Do we even need to mention one of the legislators he’s asking teachers to support, Celeste Johnson, has been illegally double dipping from CCPS and the General Assembly?

PLEASE post back, because every time a MACE basher posts, it provides an opportunity to highlight the differences on the board between those who bash MACE (because their power is being threatened) and those who support the MACE philosophy of you cannot have good learning conditions until you have good teaching conditions and that MUST include discipline.

PS to Kimberly Allen: Do you ever talk to AJC reporters Megan Matteucci or Eric Stirgus? Perhaps you could ask them, why they have written close to a DOZEN stories on the SACS controversy and not one on Celeste Johnson’s illegal double dipping even though an Open Records request has CONFIRMED it.

By The Rev. Again

January 21, 2008 11:32 AM | Link to this

Correction: I did not intend to say “I you you,” although this does sound somewhat existential. I was saying, “I love you, my Fellow Clayco Thugs!” Please forgive the other typos as well. Always relying on God’s grace, Your Reprobate Rev.

By Attn: Clayton Parents

January 21, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this

I think Rev. Jimmy Jack hit the nail on he head as to why Elgart has found “the whole system” in array. That didn’t go exactly to plan for Rod and Ericka (who are now probably hopping mad about all that gas money they spent on secret meetings BEFORE Rod called SACS)

I’ll just add one thing to the Rev.’s analysis: I think once it got on the blogsphere that Rod Johnson KNOWINGLY helped hire an accused, now indicted, child molester to serve as a “bodyguard” Elgart quickly realized that having Johnson escort him down to ClayCo to “investigate” would have a much credibility with ClayCo folk as hiring a drunk “designated driver” to escort him to a MADD convention!

By Attn: Clayton Parents

January 21, 2008 1:29 PM | Link to this

If this was really about fuel costs (which it wasn’t) all you’d have to do is require the officers to pay for the fuel. Seems the other maintainance costs are more than offset by the increased visibility.

Seems ironic coming from Bell, who probably spent more that 3 million himself on his uniform alone when he was with APD.

Where else do you think Victor got the idea to dress up as a tinhorn dictator? LOL

By Clayton Resident

January 21, 2008 2:11 PM | Link to this

I absolutely agree with the policy and applaud Chairman Bell and the other two commissioners for their leadership!

Neither Jeff Turner nor 80 percent of the officers who live outside Clayton County pay taxes here, so why should they determine how MY tax dollars are spent?

Jeff Turner doesn’t live in Clayton County. Perhaps the next move county leaders should make should be to encourage a change in the Charter to require the Chief of Police to live in the county, the way every other city and county does. Check with Fulton, Atlanta, and others and find out if a fire chief, police chief, city or county attorney, or department head can live outside the city or county and be employed there in those positions. Only in Clayton is this allowed.

I find it absolutely absurd that a police chief is suggesting that without their cars, officers would be hindered in doing their jobs.

This is from the same police chief and staff who miscalculated crime stats recently and blamed it on a computer glitch. Give me a break!!!

To Clayton County people — when are you going to wake up and stop letting people pull the wool over your eyes. That’s a rhetorical question.

Right now, there is no accountability with this police department. Read the article in which the police chief dances around the miscalculated crime stats. I was embarrassed for him. A third grader knows that if the 2007 actual numbers are higher than the 2006 actual numbers, then there was an increase in crime. Who needs a computer to make that determination/calculation.

Please people, look for intelligent people to work for you and this county. Stop supporting people for all the wrong reasons.

For if you don’t, the crime rate will continue to increase and your schools will continue to be low performing.