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Bill Simon, Wednesday, December 6th, 2017
Prelude On August 23, 2014, a publicly advertised GOP Rally was held on Burt’s Pumpkin Farm in Dawsonville, Georgia, a city located in Dawson County. At that event, an arrest occurred by a sheriff’s deputy who was working ‘security’ at the private event. This arrest, and all stories about it (including several on the PoliticalVine.com […]
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PV, Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017
Almost Three Years & Three Months Later to the Day… On August 23, 2014, an…incident occurred at Burt’s Pumpkin Farm in Dawson County, Georgia. There was a Republican Rally taking place for the General Election. A lot of the Republican bigwigs were there (i.e., elected officeholders and people running as a Republican for elected government […]
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PV, Monday, November 13th, 2017
Rumors have it that one of the scumbags involved in the 2014 Pumpkin Gate saga is scheduled to appear this Wednesday in front of the Judicial Nominating Commission (“JNC”) to apply for a Superior Court Judge vacancy. Since there were several scumbags at that event in August 2014, you might wonder which scumbag it is? […]
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Bill Simon, Friday, October 24th, 2014
Cover-up By Dawson County Sheriff’s Office (“DCSO”) Personnel For nearly the past two months since August 23rd, I have been engaged in filing different Open Records Requests (“ORR”) with the Dawson County Sheriff’s Office. To those people who are not part of the Georgia GOP Republican establishment (who are, for the most part, good little […]
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Bill Simon, Thursday, October 23rd, 2014
Prelude There are people involved in the Georgia Republican Party in this state who think that Nydia Tisdale (her first name rhymes with “Lydiaâ€, but begins with the letter “Nâ€) “deserved” the treatment she got on August 23rd, based on the story that is easiest to believe as told by some “witnesses” of the events […]
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Bill Simon, Monday, September 29th, 2014
Since August 23rd, there have been several “claims” by several people who were at the Burt’s Pumpkin Farm event that, essentially, run something like this: “Nydia Tisdale is a plant for the liberal media and she set-up that whole scenario to get grabbed by Tony Wooten and arrested.” Well, that’s quite fascinating for people to […]
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PV, Thursday, September 4th, 2014
Rumors have it that at a specially-called teleconference meeting scheduled to be held tomorrow afternoon (Friday, September 5 at 4:30 PM) by The Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission (f/k/a as the State Ethics Commission), the Commission will be entertaining a motion to axe Executive Secretary Holly LaBerge in order to clear the “political […]
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Bill Simon, Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014
MEMORANDUM To: Morris “Pepper” Pettit (witness to Burt’s Pumpkin Farm GOP Rally Incident) From: Bill Simon, PoliticalVine.com RE: Your exposure to losing everything you hold dear —————————————————————————— Mr. Pettit, Let me be clear: I am not a lawyer. I do not practice law, I do not offer legal advice….I doubt I could even play one […]
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PV, Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014
AboutForsyth.net has an interesting 26-second bit: Georgia Governor Nathan Deal greets a Democratic tracker at the Roswell Republican Rally on August 2, 2014. GOV. DEAL: Hey, how are you doing? DEM. TRACKER: Good morning, Governor. GOV. DEAL: Very nice to meet you. DEM. TRACKER: Thank you. GOV. DEAL: I hope my people treat you with […]
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Bill Simon, Monday, September 1st, 2014
Prelude According to the DawsonNews.com website, Sheriff’s Deputy Tony Wooten has been “cleared” of any wrongdoing in his arrest of Nydia Tisdale on August 23rd at Burt’s Pumpkin Farm (and also the secret location of The Clint Bearden Official Training Camp for Former Law Partners of David Ralston on How To Batter Women), located in […]
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PV, Saturday, August 30th, 2014
Clint Bearden is receiving this distinction of being a scumbag due to his involvement and instigation of the series of events that led-up to the physical attack on Citizen Videographer Nydia Tisdale by Dawson County Sheriff’s Deputy Tony Wooten, who may, himself, have not been operating lawfully himself. This is a link to the story […]
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Bill Simon, Thursday, August 28th, 2014
Introduction If you are not “up” on the bullshit that happened over the weekend on August 23rd at Burt’s Pumpkin Farm in Dawson County, where someone was thrown-out and subsequently arrested for videotaping speeches, these are the links for you to read to get-up to speed very quickly so you can follow along with the […]
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