Tag: Glenn Richardson
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Jill Chambers and Glenn Richardson
Jill Chambers is 1) desperate and 2) can’t think of anything bad to say about Elena Parent.I know this because today, via a nasty-gram that hit mailboxes in the district, Jill criticized Elena for taking money from lawyers at Sutherland Asbill, the firm represents the DeKalb County School Board. She calls on Elena to return…
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The county of horndogs and hypocrites
You’ve got to love the voters of Paulding County — they appreciate a good joke better than any other group of people I know. Where else in Georgia would you see the voters put such a colorful bunch of horndogs, carousers and hypocrites into public office?
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The scandals never stop
A few days before Republican members of the Georgia House caucused to nominate a replacement for the lobbyist-romancing Glenn Richardson as speaker, a Democratic strategist summed up the worst-case scenario for his party: “The worst thing that could happen to Democrats is for Republicans to elect someone honest as speaker,” he said.
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That was fast
It took less than 72 hours for the speaker of the Georgia House, one of the most powerful people in state politics, to be smashed, destroyed, and run out of office. Just like that, Glenn Richardson’s political career is finished.
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More of the story comes out
And now you know, as Paul Harvey used to growl, the rest of the story. The divorced wife of House Speaker Glenn Richardson granted an interview to Fox 5 TV Monday and said that the factors in Richardson’s recent suicide attempt were “power and control,” not depression.
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The big sleep (almost)
“So why did he REALLY do it?” That question has been posed to me quite a few times in the week since the news broke about House Speaker Glenn Richardson’s unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping pills.