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Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Snellville residents making mudpies
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The rhetoric’s getting a bit puffy in Snellville.
Recently a backer of Mayor Jerry Oberholtzer filed a formal complaint against the incumbent’s challenger Bruce Garraway for “diversion of resources.”
The diversion? Getting the police chief to send an officer to open the former councilman’s car after Garraway had locked his keys in it. In response Garraway fired off a news release insisting that he was only taking advantage of a police service available to all Snellville residents.
(Snellville police Chief Roy Whitehead has since discontinued the practice.)
Garraway didn’t stop there.
He issued an official request that the Snellville City Council investigate “potential conflicts of interest and collusion” between Oberholtzer and Joe Anderson, the filer of the “diversion” complaint against Garraway.
“Mr. Anderson is a former City Council member who left Snellville in the middle of his term, but who’s spent the last several years as a professional gadfly and troublemaker, using leaked information from Mayor Oberholtzer to fuel his various manias,” Garraway said in his prepared statement. “His unhealthy obsession with Snellville politics now threatens the good name and professional reputation of Roy Whitehead. Frankly, that’s repugnant.”
So what we’re talking about is one accusation of inappropriate use of a car jimmie with a countercharge of consorting with a gadfly. Right?
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