Wednesday, July 31, 2002

Day 204, the assault continues.

First, it was the building moratorium, then the Development Authority, then state Rep. Kathy Cox and the CID. Along the way the attacks shifted to Councilwoman McMenamin, Mr. John Dufresne, the Airport Authority, its individual members as well as the City Attorney.

Well, folks, you aren't going to believe it: Mayor Brown is finally attacking himself.

Mayor Brown, who served on the committee that made changes to the ethics ordinance, signed documents saying he read the ordinance and sat through hours and hours of ethics training at your expense, has now voluntarily come forward and asked us to believe he did not know what he was doing, but nonetheless should be punished.

Furthermore, he is continuing his attack on the City Attorney who explained that if no one filed a complaint against him, the issue would be dropped.

Now the mayor wants to hold an ethics hearing to come before you and tell you again that he has sinned. He has been unethical. What the mayor really wants to do is use the hearing as a forum where he can express his views on ethics.

That shouldn't take long.

Mayor Brown coming forward and telling us he has been unethical is akin to Bill Clinton telling us he has cheated on Hillary. He appears not to be unethical, but amoral. His actions demonstrate a lack of underlying moral values from which to make ethical decisions. Now, he is apparently intent on dissembling the ethics ordinance. It isn't cooperating either.

Gary Rower

Peachtree City

[Rower was a candidate for mayor against Brown last fall.]

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