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DEL.ICIO.USWith Doraville settling down, senator thinks it’s better not to stir things up
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Friday resignation of a Doraville councilman took the air out of a state Senate hearing on the firing of that city’s police chief.
State Sen. John Douglas (R-Social Circle), chairman of the Senate veterans affairs committee, was to hold the hearing today, but instead announced the meeting’s cancellation — with no plan to take up the issue again.
King was fired Aug. 7 in a 2:30 a.m. vote by a council majority, after Councilman Tom Hart criticized King — a National Guard officer — for being out of the loop during the 18 months he served in Iraq.
King was reinstated the next day by Mayor Ray Jenkins, who called the firing “illegal.”
The departure of Hart, who wants to run for mayor, eliminates the council majority that had been pushing for King’s removal.
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