Tag Archives: Law

Nydia Tisdale’s video of being arrested for videoing a public event



The deputy is

on camera
refusing to identify himself as he holds her down.
The best he’d do was “You’ll see it on the warrant”.

Background

here
, including a candidate laughing as she cries “Help!”

-jsq

Quitman 10+2 third trial



“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.

Here’s

George’s first report
: Continue reading

Nydia Tisdale’s offense: she sat in the front row



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

Nydia Tisdale forcibly ejected from Republican rally in Dawsonville



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

Riverview development next to Withlacoochee River? @ GLPC 2014-07-28



A flood plain rezoning next to the Withlacoochee river came back from 2011,
at the

28 July 2014 Planning Commission meeting
,
which voted unanimously for, as did the Valdosta City Council later.


7. VA-2014-05 Riverview Development LLC

Video.
This is

parcel 0074 088 on North Valdosta Road
behind Music Funeral Home,
next to Langdale Park,
on the other side of the Withlacoochee River from Foxborough.

City Planner Matt Martin said only a tiny part of the property was
in the floodplain of the Withlacoochee River. Continue reading

Family Dollar on Roger Budd property near Francis Lake in Lake Park? @ GLPC 2014-07-28



Opposition started arising to Roger Budd’s request to rezone
to put another Family Dollar near Francis Lake in Lake Park,
at the

28 July 2014 Planning Commission meeting
,
which voted 5 to 2 with one abstention to recommend a compromise solution.


6. REZ-2014-14 Roger Budd Jr

Video.
County Planner Jason Davenport said he had received no indications of any opposition.
And one GLPC member asked the developer’s presenter whether residents
of Francis Lake had been notified.

Yet J.D. Carroll spoke against, Continue reading

Quitman 10+2 third trial set for 19 August 2014

Will three strikes against the prosecution
make it give up on trying to convict the Quitman 10+2?
Dear prosecutor, we know you read this blog, because

you asked potential jurors at Lula Smart’s second trial
,

Have you read or talked to or followed a blog called “On the
Lake Front?”

So, dear prosecutor, when is enough enough?



Fannie MJ Gibs

notes that
Quitman Free press

posted on facebook yesterday
:

The retrial voter fraud case has been set for August 19 at Brooks
County Courthouse. See this week’s issue for details.

So far as I know, Quitman Free Press only prints on paper and
does not post any articles online,
so we have to guess they’re referring to the Quitman 10.

When George Rhynes first posted about the arrests
of the Quitman 10 in December 2010
, he remarked:

Today’s arrest will surely end up in the courts.

Who would have expected it to be in the courts three times?



In July 2012, the Chair of the Brooks County Board of Elections
tried to throw George Boston Rhynes out of her board’s meeting Continue reading

Children, cancer clusters, citizen water tests @ GA EPD 2014-07-17



Citizens are not convinced EPA, GA-EPD, and GA Dept. of Health
are doing enough to find what’s causing widespread sickness and death
in Waycross, GA.
They asked questions and provided data and anecdotes for more than
an hour, demanding more testing and answers, at a meeting
about the Seven Out Superfund and other air and water contamination,
for example from CSX and AGL.

Georgia Department of Health did

offer a new survey
, with local help.
She also offered to send a local health dept. rep. right out whenever
they were alerted a certain site stunk after rains.
EPA and GA-EPD admitted there was a problem and said they were
trying to fix it,
which is a step forward from

their preliminary Waycross meeting last November
.
But not a big enough step or quick enough to satisfy Waycross people who are or
who know many who are sick or dying.

They asked very insightful questions, about Continue reading

Sabal Trail admits no Georgia customers, tree destruction, to VDT



The VDT’s page-long coverage wasn’t just fluff.
Spectra’s Andrea Grover admitted they need complete survey data,
and Sabal Trail admitted they have no Georgia customers, which means
they have no Georgia eminent domain, so every landowner who refuses is
indeed putting a crimp into Spectra’s fracked methane pipeline.
Plus Grover admitted trees don’t grow back fast, so her promise
“It’s restored to what it was before” is pretty hollow.
She admitted she knows the Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Fuels
can approve LNG export, but she didn’t admit that it has already done
so for three companies right there Spectra’s Sabal Trail pipeline leads
on Florida’s Atlantic coast.
She still can’t seem to remember Spectra’s long list of safety violations.
And she’d already forgotten exactly when her posse of seven
rode into Leesburg, GA seeking an eminent domain court order,
and rode away without it.

Not a word, though, about
Lowndes County Chairman Bill Slaughter’s fourteen points of Continue reading

EPA hearings in AJC: where’s the second step about natural gas?



AJC on the

EPA hearings this week
:
they didn’t print my proposed second step for natural gas,
but they did quote Sierra Club on efficiency.

Kristina Torres wrote for the AJC today,

EPA brings ‘clean power’ plan to Atlanta. Will it hurt Georgia?
Continue reading