Category: Ethics

  • Backatcha Olry Taitz

    Sometimes it is horrifyingly embarrassing to live in Georgia.  Take the current legal challenge to President Obama’s name appearing on the Presidential Preference Ballot because he is not a natural-born US Citizen.  I think when we heard about this we thought it would be quietly dismissed.  But, no!  Not in Georgia.  The Administrative Law Judge…

  • Judicial Ethics & Qualifications, yawn

    Seriously, should we be yawning about this? I think not. I realize the political news today is mostly about the “Cainwreak” that is/was his cray-cray campaign, but buried down in the twitter verse was a fascinating story about a possibly little known GA agency called the Judicial Qualifications Commission. The Judicial Qualifications Commission — which…

  • The continuing education of ethics and honesty from GAGOP

    Savannah attorney Gary Wisenbaker (R-Donor) pleaded guilty in Federal Court today because he ” defrauded his clients out of more than $50,000.” WJCL has the story here. He just ran for state house in Chatham County and lost. Republican governor Sonny appointed him to the Georgia Student Finance Commission . His term expires in 2014.…

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  • “It was a mistake.”

    No, Tim Echols, it was more than “a mistake.” During his campaign, Echols made a point to say that he would “Protect the free market environment for household movers, limousine service and charter bus companies who fall under the PSC for regulation while at the same time set price limits to protect GA consumers from…

  • Georgia Capital Punishment Watch

    Couple things in the news lately. Creative Loafing and the New York Times have picked up on the fact that last summer Georgia purchased their supply of sodium thiopental from Dream Pharma, “a shady, unlicensed company that operates out of the back room of a driving school in London, England.” In addition, Troy Davis filed…