Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Oh good

Republicans Kelly Marlow, Robert Trim and Barbara Knowles were found guilty.

Marlow's suspended from the school board, Knowles has resigned as Secretary for the CCRP, and who cares what happens to Trim?

And of course, Cherokee Republican, former school board member, and current candidate Mike Chapman blames Obama for everything (citing Jim Galloway's piece below):

“This is like the reddest part of Georgia. It’s blood red,” Chapman said. He blames President Barack Obama — for exacerbating the lines between Democrats and Republicans.

“They’ve created at the national level such divisiveness that if anybody — all the way down to your local school board — even slightly hints that they’re not following the party doctrine, they castrate you,” the school board veteran said.



Updates:
1.  Marlow has resigned from the school board.  A special election will be held.
http://woodstock.patch.com/groups/schools/p/kelly-marlow-resigns-from-cherokee-school-board

2.  Jim Galloway reprises the sordid affair:  "It is a case of hubris run amok."
http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2014/04/30/in-cherokee-county-proof-that-the-truth-isnt-everything-you-imagine-it-to-be/

3.  The trio will be sentenced Thursday 5/1/2014,  at 9am.  "60 Days in the Hole"
http://woodstock.patch.com/groups/police-and-fire/p/kelly-marlow-get-60-days-in-jail-10-years-probation68256

4.  Trim still listed on Grassroots Conservatives of Cherokee's Independent Committee; remains on the governing committee of the county GOP:
http://media.ethics.ga.gov/search/Campaign/Campaign_Name.aspx?NameID=847&FilerID=NC2006000206&Type=committee
  http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2014/05/01/senate-hopeful-derrick-grayson-has-rancher-cliven-bundys-back/