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Bill Simon, Sunday, April 29th, 2018
PRELUDE The following story will, at some point, use some or all of the abbreviations below, and I’m not up for repeating their longer titles. These are all State of Georgia-related abbreviations: AG = Attorney General AAG = Assistant Attorney General DOI = Declaration of Intent (to run for office) GAA = Georgia Aviation Authority […]
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PV, Wednesday, November 1st, 2017
Rumors have it that the Georgia State Attorney General’s Office is too incompetent to act as State Defense Counsel for Secretary of State Brian Kemp and Kennesaw State University in the civil lawsuit that challenged the results of the 6th District Congressional Race earlier in 2017. Within four days of that lawsuit being filed, the […]
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PV, Tuesday, September 27th, 2016
Rumors have it that Governor Nathan Deal is planning on replacing Attorney General Sam Olens with current Georgia Economic Development Department Commissioner Chris Carr whenever Sam Olens quits as AG to take-on the job as the new Kennesaw State University President. Stories in the news have been floating for about a month in various newsy-oriented […]
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politicalvine, Wednesday, September 21st, 2016
Sam Olens tries to silence opposition by having him disbarred “Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens conceded in pleadings filed in federal court that there was never any basis for his request to have a duly licensed attorney barred from practicing in Georgia or pursuing claims against the Attorney General. “In July of 2016, Georgia Attorney […]
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Bill Simon, Monday, March 21st, 2016
Introduction Imagine the following conversation occurring in the female inmate section of the Cobb County Jail…in present time period: Inmate 1: “So, what are you gals in for?” Inmate 2: “I didn’t do anything wrong.” Inmate 3: “I got caught with less than an ounce of weed.” Inmate 4: “I got arrested for using a […]
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Bill Simon, Tuesday, October 20th, 2015
Prelude By the time you get finished reading this, and absorbing the degree and depth of just how corrupt every level of government in Georgia is, here are some questions you might ponder in addition to the ones I posit: 1) For the corporate members who pay who-knows-what in annual membership to the Council for […]
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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, Monday, October 20th, 2014
Maybe someone can straighten this out for me because, after spending the amount of time I have spent watching and observing politics in Georgia, my usual fine sense of smell seems to be out of adjustment these days when it comes to smelling corruption. So, is the deal with DeKalb County CEO Burrell Ellis the […]
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PV, Saturday, September 20th, 2014
IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACTS: Sabrina Smith – 770-572-5888 | SabrinaWorks247@hotmail.com John Hunter – 770-492-4298 | Info@GeorgiaWatchdogs.com MEDIA ADVISORY PRESS CONFERENCE: RICO Lawsuits Against Georgia Attorney General WHO: Georgia Watchdogs, a diverse group committed to providing a non-partisan resource for Georgia residents who want to learn more about their public officials and government agencies. WHAT: Press […]
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PV, Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014
Rumors have it that Fulton County Superior Court Judge Ural Glanville has issued a 9-page ruling against the “Ethics Commission” (sic) Executive Secretary Holly LaBerge and Attorney General Sam Olens, fining each of them $10,000. In the story available on the AJC.com Website, they lay it out. One quote will be pulled for the throng […]
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Bill Simon, Friday, January 24th, 2014
Prelude Over in DeKalb County, in the indictment process of former county CEO Burrell Ellis, some intriguing developments have made their way to the public eye via this article. What is of significance to this post is the following statement made by Don Geary, DeKalb County’s former chief assistant district attorney, in response to the […]
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PV, Thursday, January 16th, 2014
“Olens could not be reached for comment about why he attended the private meeting.” Rumors have it that, in a top-secret meeting held last Tuesday between representatives of John Williams, et al. (for his Cobb County Riverwalk project, which is seeking multi-millions of dollars in tax exemptions/abatement from the Cobb County School District), members of […]
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