Perdue Disputes Trooper lawsuit

[Charlie Brown]

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/0205/19trooper.html

The former head of the state patrol testified in legal documents that Gov. Sonny Perdue personally directed him to move the chief of the governor's security detail away from the mansion and promote him to a job for which he was not qualified.

In a sworn statement given for an unrelated lawsuit, former state Public Safety Director George Ellis said that Perdue instructed him to appoint Capt. Stewart Hicks as director of the State Patrol's training academy in Monroe County. Hicks at the time was chief of the patrol's special detail assigned to protect the governor's mansion in Buckhead.

Hicks was promoted three weeks after the governor's recently divorced daughter, Leigh Brett, married one of Hicks' subordinates. State Trooper Jim Brown, who also had been stationed at the governor's mansion, was reassigned to a North Georgia post nine days before the Sept. 25 wedding. Perdue has denied the personnel moves were related to his daughter's marriage.

Perdue and his chief operating officer, Jim Lientz, pressed for Hicks' transfer even though Hicks lacked a required college degree and had not applied for the job, Ellis said in the deposition given this week. Two men who did apply — and had college degrees — were passed over.

[CatWoman]

1. I came here to post this story about Purdue

but I'll just piggyback on your thread:

Sonny Lied: The Sequel
Does Perdue's possible perjury parallel Clinton's?

BY DOUG MONROE

The official state sign is far more visible than the official state bird these days. The state bird is the brown thrasher and, as we all know, the Thrashers didn't show up this year.

The state sign, on the other hand, is a reproduction of the Confederate battle flag with the words "Sonny Lied." Once you get out of town, you see it nailed to trees throughout Georgia.

The signs were put up to protest a double-cross by Gov. Sonny Perdue. When he was running against Gov. Roy Barnes in 2002, Perdue gave supporters of the old Confederate-X state flag the distinct impression that he would let them vote to bring the old flag back.

The flag folks voted in huge numbers, which is one of the reasons Sonny won. Once elected, he let them vote on a flag - but it was a new version, not the battle flag they wanted. It passed, replacing the blue Barnes flag, but Perdue never let them vote on the old 1956 "X" flag.

Thus, "Sonny Lied."


http://www.atlanta.creativeloafing.com/news_humbug.html

[RubyDuby in GA]

2. I am shocked. Shocked I tell you.......

Sonny? A liar??? I just cannot fathom such a thing.........

Too much sarcasm? :shrug:
Even the Rethugs don't like him. They're trying hard to field a candidate to go up against him in the primary next year.

[CatWoman]

3. he completely pissed off the "we want a vote"

flag idiots.

I remember at Sonny's inauguration, there was a bunch of them firing guns into the air, chanting about voting on the flag.

And Purdue, the disgusting pig, tried to channel Martin Luther King by yelling, "Free at last, free at last..............."

It was beyond disgusting.

[RubyDuby in GA]

4. Beyond disgusting.........

this whole circus that is state government is now beyond disgusting.

On a side note, are you coming to the Family Day outing this Saturday at the Capitol? Tons of democratic organizations have been mobilizing to get people out for this and I know that the AFL-CIO is bringing in 7 busloads of people for this. Strength in numbers and all that :)

[CatWoman]

6. I wish

I have to work :pout:

[RubyDuby in GA]

7. Bastards!

You tell them that I said that you were to be excused for this rally.
That ought to do it. I'm sure you can get the time off now :P

[CottonBear]

5. OMG! I'd totally forgotten about the "free at last" yell...

That was beyond disgusting. It was totally racist and mean spirited. I met Perdue when he was campaigning. He asked for my vote and I told him I was a Democrat and would never vote for a Republican. He replied that he was a "really more of a populist." Yeah, right, Sonny. You and Lester Maddox.
:puke: