Lula Smart cleared by a jury in third trial.
Third strike by the prosecutors: they’re out!
Will they stop wasting our taxpayer dollars now?
Katheryn Hayes Tucker, Daily Report, 17 September 2014,
Acquittal in Trial Over Absentee Ballots,
Lula Mary Smart was acquitted on 19 felony charges of voting
irregularities Wednesday following a month-long trial in Brooks
County Superior Court in South Georgia.
A utility didn’t stop at blowing up a Calfornia neighborhood,
it also demanded the Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) get a favorable judge
for that 2010 San Bruno natural gas pipe explosion.
The CPUC president’s chief of staff just last year wrote slides
praising his Legacy as Best Practices.
Does that legacy include suborning justice?
He’s still there, although she was fired, and three PG&E executives
“ended their employment”.
How many other PG&E and other utility executives and CPUC and other
state regulators follow those same Best Practices?
Ellen Knickmeyer, Associated Press, 15 September 2014,
PG&E Officials Removed for Improper Communications,
Four senior officials with Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and the state
commission regulating it were removed or resigned over emails
released Monday showing the utility and state regulators appeared to
negotiate which judge would be assigned to hear one of the utility’s
rate cases.The emails show the commission ultimately assigned to the case a
judge for whom PG&E had expressed a preference, rather than another
judge who PG&E said “has a history of being very hard on us.”
Also Monday, California Public Utilities Commission president
Michael Peevey, who was included Continue reading
Sometimes it doesn’t just look like they have something to hide:
the FBI found some of what the DeKalb County Commmission was hiding,
and one criminally-charged Commissioner promises to sing about the others,
while 62 vendors and all the other sitting Commissioners are being
investigated.
No local elected body around here could have such problems, right?
The DeKalb FBI corruption investigation apparently started with
news stories in the AJC.
Coincidentally, here’s
the board packet for tonight’s Lowndes County Commission meeting
that it took an open records request for LAKE to get so you can see it.
20 February 2013,
Fireworks erupt in court over DeKalb corruption case,
by Jodie Fleischer for WSB-TV,
Only Channel 2’s Jodie Fleischer was there as a judge lashed out at
prosecutors who want the public to see a secret corruption report.The special grand jury investigating DeKalb County corruption Continue reading
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A reader wondered how
Nova Scotia’s fracking ban would result in
safer oil and gas company drilling operations instead of just
balkanizing the world into fracking permitted and prohibited zones.
Actually, Energy Minister Andrew Younger said:
“This way, people will know before it’s allowed — if it’s ever
allowed — there will be a full debate in the Legislature.”
And the panel report that was the proximate cause of the ban,
by the
Nova Scotia Hydraulic Fracturing review,
led by
President Dr. David Wheeler,
explicitly is for: Continue reading
Yesterday
Nova Scotia announced a ban on fracking.
Will local or state governments in the southeast, now threatened
by the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline,
ban such pipelines?
Especially since FERC has now directed Sabal Trail to examine
routes through Americus, Cordele, Ashburn, Tifton, Adel, Valdosta, and even Thomasville,
in addition
to the ones it already proposed through Dougherty, Colquitt, Brooks, and Lowndes Counties?
Sierra Club Canada wrote about public meetings
in its Media Release of 28 August 2014,
Government of Nova Scotia Needs to Ban Fracking,
“Public meetings held by the panel were attended by an
overwhelming majority of well-informed citizens who had deep
concerns about fracking,” according to [Gretchen] Fitzgerald,
“Those concerns should be met with the type of leadership they
deserve: an immediate, legally binding ban.”
And the Nova Scotia government listened.
Bruce Erskine wrote for The Herald Business 3 September 2014,
Nova Scotia to ban fracking,
posting a video in which you can hear
Energy Minister Andrew Younger say: Continue reading
“Thank you for not plea bargaining” said George Boston Rhynes
starting his series of videos on the ongoing third trial of
Lula Smart of the Quitman 10+2.
No newspapers, radio, or TV reporters at this trial
about voters’ rights.
But George is there.
Landowner Johnny Burt’s excuse for having Nydia Tisdale ejected
from an event advertised as a public campaign rally:
“She promptly sat down on the front row on the end where she would
be right in their face and was making everybody uncomfortable.”
Shades of Ashley Paulk’s excuse for wanting that
illegal bill of attainder Continue reading
State Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens reportedly asked Nydia Tisdale “I don’t know why you’re videotaping” and was recorded moments later laughing as
she yelled for help while a deputy
forcibly ejected her from a political rally
in front of Governor Nathan Deal and U.S. Senate candidate David Perdue.
Jim Galloway and Greg Bluestein wrote for the AJC yesterday,
Videographer ousted from GOP event, and Sam Olens speaks up,
that Attorney General Sam Olens was the only speaker at that rally to mention the incident later: Continue reading
