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March 16, 2006
The Emperor of Fort Oglethorpe
So I caught a rare few seconds of the six o'clock teevee news, and a most amazing tale did Bob Johnson and friends tell.
Here's what I came away with. The mayor's wife gets pulled over for speeding. The officer dutifully writes a ticket.
Said mayor then calls his chief of police and cusses him out for the officer's sheer audacity, and demands that the ticket be fixed. Says, among other things, "don't you know who I am?"
When the chief of police refuses to fix the ticket, the city manager demotes the chief for an unspecified insubordination.
"Don't you know who I am?" Well, now I'm beginning to find out, though I sure hadn't heard of you before today. Apparently, you're the pipsqueak mayor of a town so tiny I can't hold my fingers that close together. You're a two-bit one-horse mayor who thinks he and his wife are above the law.
You're also a human being who's bound to make mistakes (wasn't that a song?) and I really hope you turn right around on this one and start the mending just as soon as possible. Whether or not the demotion was related to the police chief's refusal to act unethically, the phone call that he says took place was itself way out of line, and requires a public apology.
Government | By joe lance | 10:38 PM