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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Hours after the Republican run-off, Green’s yard gets trashed
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
She stepped outside to get the morning newspaper.
Hours earlier, incumbent Gwinnett County Commissioner Lorraine Green had lost a hotly-contested race for the chairman’s post. Incumbent Gwinnett County Commission Chairman Charles Bannister (51 percent) had narrowly defeated Green (49 percent) in the Aug. 5 Republican runoff.
The next morning, she was greeted with a reminder of just how ugly the contest had been. The front yard of the home she shares with her husband, Bob and two sons, had been littered with her campaign signs.
“They were signs that had been ripped out from their posts from all around here,” Green told me Wednesday.
But the culprits didn’t go undetected.
Turns out a neighbor’s security camera caught them on tape. Green said several adults can be seen emerging from four cars to do their deed. The camera noted the time at 2:53 a.m., about four hours after the election results had been confirmed.
“It was adults,” Green said. “They were some people I know.”
Green made it a point to say that she was not intimating that Bannister had anything to do with the mean-spiritedness. She hasn’t decided whether to involve the authorities.
“Part of me says to let it go,” she said. “Part of me says people deserve to know about this. My first thought was that my kids don’t need to see this.”
So I ask you, the readers.
What would you do if you were Green?
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