State Senator Emanuel Jones (D-Decatur) has accused the DeKalb County school board vice chairman of attacking him and said he plans to file an ethics complaint.
Jones and board member H. Paul Womack got into a dispute Thursday night at a DeKalb County Chamber of Commerce banquet over a pending ethics bill. Jones said Womack pointed his finger in the legislator’s face, used profanity and said he was God.
“I’ve never had an elected official come at me with that kind of venom and animosity out of his mouth,” Jones said.
Womack said he did not use profanity, but did criticize the legislator over bills to create an independent ethics commission to govern the local board and establish qualifications to run for school board.
“He can file anything he wants. I didn’t think it was an ethics violation to voice an opinion,” Womack said. “Yes, I said ‘I’m God,' but he brought it up."
David Schutten, president of the Organization of DeKalb Educators, intervened in the dispute and said he reported it to the board chair.
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