In case you did not know, the Political Vine is not a perfect political newsletter. We never advertise that we are. We miss facts and we miss the other side's viewpoint on occasion.
So what? You're not paying for this publication and we're not the designated Internet "legal organ" for the state of Georgia (though, we certainly wouldn't mind a "resolution" on the order of comparison to the types of resolutions offered by the Dems over the past 80 years to recognize the tree frog as the official amphibian of Georgia and grits as the official breakfast cereal of Georgia).
BUT, when you compare us to the stuff you DO pay for via the Atlanta Journal & Constitution, the Marietta Daily Journal and what you pay for through your cable TV bill to see such illustrious reporting done by the likes of WSB-TV, we do a slam-dunk of a better job in getting the "real story" out.
Case in point: The reporting by the AJC and the news media over the past week about the indictment of Linda Schrenko has been abysmal compared to the real facts of the indictment.
Now, we know that it is probably not the anchors on the news who write the stuff that they read...it is probably some idiot schooled at the CNN College of Half-Assed Journalism at UGA who cannot figure how how to read an indictment and decipher words like "embezzle," "shell companies," or "wire fraud."
We don't have the time to lay out the details of this indictment, but we have provided it to you to download and read at your leisure (see above PDF document). It is some baaaaaaaad news for Schrenko, Merle Temple, and the Kenneth Lay of Enron impersonator-businessman from Alpharetta.
But, we know. Had The Ten Commandments been posted on courthouses and schools all around Georgia during Schrenko's tenure, she would have read the ones about "Thou shall not steal," "Thou shall not bear false witness," and "Thou shall not covet" and not engaged in any of this that has been alleged against her. Don't you boys and girls of the new legislature who ran on such platforms as requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments all over Georgia agree?...yeah...that'll stop people from committing crimes and sins, won't it? Let's just ask State Senator-elect Chip Rogers about bearing false witness...