Political Boxers: Talitrix, Todd & Turner
by Bill Simon
Just trying to catch-up on some news I’m way behind on, and I came across an AJC story published on June 4, 2024, titled “Onetime ally sues Fulton sheriff over unpaid contract for inmate tracking”
Clicking into it, I start reading all about how Talitrix is now suing Fulton County Sheriff Patrick LaBlatt over his failure to pay them over $800,000 for some biometric and GPS-locating equipment and software they sold the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office…and I busted-out LAUGHING MY ASS OFF!
Mind you, Talitrix is the company that, essentially, engaged in financial trix (deliberate play on words there, Folks) to secure the contract with Fulton County by…(I want to make sure I use the correct terminology to cause State Rep. Todd Jones & Talitrix’s lawyer to go absolutely ape-sht here…) engaging in “…institutionalized bribery…”, as described by William Perry as quoted in this March 22, 2024 AJC article.
The “institutionalized bribery” Perry was referring to is that Talitrix’s officers and/or company itself, or a PAC funded exclusively by Talitrix, legally contributed money to people like LaBlatt’s political campaign…and apparently they magically won some contract with the Fulton County Sheriff’s Department.
And, now, they’re having to sue to get the property back after the Fulton County Commission canceled their contract (and gravy meal tickets).
In that AJC story I linked to above…on Page 14 of 17, there is a photo of Rep. Todd Jones and a caption that reads: “Rep. Todd Jones (R-South Forsyth) smiles as House members congratulate him on the passage of HB 520 on day 27 of the legislative session on Thursday, March 2, 2023.”
Why was Rep. Todd Jones smiling? Because he and Talitrix had cleared their first big hurdle in an attempt to ensure that Talitrix was going to be the sole beneficiary of certain legal language embedded in HB 520 BY State Rep. Jones that, had it passed the legislature, Talitrix would have had a lock on reaping rewards in the State of Georgia for 50+ years or so.
What stopped HB 520? A State Senate Committee hearing in which several people opposed it….but, most notable of those opposing it were two guys from Forsyth County who had been filing Open Records Act Requests in Forsyth County and had figured out the scheme Todd Jones was engaged in….and they exposed him for it in the State Senate hearing.
The hearing was back in March of 2023 and recorded by Nydia Tisdale and posted on her YouTube channel. Tisdale also broke-up the video in segments for each speaker, and transcribed the recordings, and a directory is available here.
I encourage you to sit thru and watch the entire hearing from the beginning when Jones lays-out HB 520, but, if you don’t have time to hear it all, I will provide you with a link to when Hank Sullivan, who opposed the bill, gets up to speak, and a little while later (after Jeff Breedlove speaks in support of the bill), you can hear Brant Meadows help in exposing Todd Jones for being the devious, crooked self-dealing politician he really is:
Link to entire HB 520 Senate hearing, Start to Finish
Link to when the fireworks are ignited by Sullivan
Now, about 70-seconds into Sullivan’s presentation, MMO (State Rep. Mary Margaret Oliver) jumps-in and starts protesting Sullivan’s exposure on just how much of a crooked POS Todd Jones is…and MMO ends-up looking like a damned fool (makes me wonder how often has MMO engaged in similar self-dealing thru legislation?).
GA State Reps Todd Jones and Mary Margaret Oliver in State Senate Hearing of HB 520 (Images are stills from the #Nydeo Recording)
To get a clearer view of the language in the bill that was put in there by self-dealing crooked State Rep. Todd Jones, take a read on Hank Sullivan’s Substack exposing it all.
HB 520 died in the State Senate in 2023.
Who is “Turner?”
Sadly, it’s not a band member associated with Bachman Turner Overdrive.
But, “Turner” is none other than Scot Turner…the latest whining Gen-Xer to get his panties in a wad after he first started a blogging fight with me, and apparently, he didn’t quite like my retorts.
After I happened to mention the name of his favorite Double-Dealing Unethical State Representative named Todd Jones, Scot deleted our mutual comments and then he promptly banned me from posting on PeachPundit.com.
This being the 2nd time I got banned from PeachPundit, I’m used to encountering stupid liars in politics who proclaim they are all self-righteous and such…when, in fact, a little digging proves otherwise. (By the way, these were his and my comments I captured prior to him deleting them…enjoy the read!).
As to the digging, it seems that, along with Scot Turner possessing the disease known as Former Legislator With A Pompous Self-Importance Complex, he has a PAC named Eternal Vigilance Action Fund.
In 2022, that PAC raised $55,000 and spent $55,000 as of the PAC’s December 31st, 2022 filed CCDR (Campaign Contributions Disclosure Report). $0.00 left in the PAC’s coffers.
I could locate no filings in the Year 2023 for the PAC, though it appears to say on the State Ethics Commission’s Website that PACs, in off-election years, are to file like the constitutional officers do: June 30th of 2023, and December 31st of 2023.
That’s all buried in OCGA 21-5-34(e) in this online version. And, it does not address, in language, any case of an instance of IF there is no money in a PAC, that PAC can skip filing in the off year.
Here’s a random PAC that had no money activity in 2023, and yet, they filed a disclosure.
It’s also odd that if it is required, why is there no fine for missing the filings? That’s…quite odd. BUT…let’s follow the clues…
Recall the 12/31/2022 CCDR I showed you above that had $00.00 Cash On Hand.
There was a CCDR filed for the “Eternal Vigilance” PAC’s period of 1/1/2024-4/30/2024. Copy of that is here.
There are four things of note about that CCDR, two of which are very, very odd:
Note 1: There is a campaign contribution of $1,000 to Lauren Daniel (the subject of a few arguments I have had with Scot Turner…no wonder Scot went berserk when PV entered that race…he had skin in the game).
Note 2: There is a campaign contribution of $1,000 to Todd Jones (yes, the same crooked POS legislator I laid-out earlier in his attempt at rigging legislation to benefit him and his company, Talitrix).
Odd Note 1: It states the PAC previously reporting raising $52,609.00. Where is that disclosure?
Odd Note 2: The Electronic Signature on this CCDR is not Scot Turner. The signature is “SEC JMC”. Who is that, you ask?
The first three letters stand for State Ethics Commission.
The “JMC” stand for Joseph Miller Cusack…the former Senior Legal Counsel for the State Ethics Commission.
That’s…odd that the then-Senior Legal Counsel for the State Ethics Commission filed a campaign disclosure for a PAC.
Why is a government employee associated with a state government agency charged with the oversight OF campaign “transparency” involved in filing a campaign disclosure for a PAC that references money raised that has not been disclosed as to where that money came from?
And, then, there’s the June 30th, 2024 CCDR for “Eternal Vigilance.” This one was uploaded and filed by R. Mansell McCord, a Republican lawyer who, as far as I know, is not working for any government agency.
BUT…there’s a huge red flag on that June 30th CCDR: There is a Net Balance of Cash on Hand of NEGATIVE $48,414.00
There are multiple missing disclosures for Scot Turner’s “Eternal Vigilance Fund”…and multiple instances of the Ethics(sic) Commission’s Website not reflecting the proper fines for Turner’s failure to file.
It’s all very bizarre…it’s almost as though the State Ethics(sic) Commission is run by a bunch of crooks who seek to cover and protect friends, all the while seeking to punish political enemies of…the…
MORE to come regarding the activities of the State Ethics(sic) Commission…