Why is it that all of you guys (Randall's Redneck Posse)are so bent on defending his abuse of power? What has he done that shows he displays any responsibility in managing his department? With the fiscal responsibility and tough defense of the land use plan does it not become obvious that the Fayette County Commission are the most qualified overseers of the sheriffs actions. I think it will be obvious in November that a mandate will be set in place by the voters to allow the commission their rightful authority over the runaway sheriff and his posse hoodlums. I'm Justasskin?

Don't think I would said that, Randall !

At least you finally realized that Randall's name has two l's.

They got married and lived happily ever after. What's not to like about that story?

You'll certainly have trouble finding a victim if you want to call it a crime.

Very heart warming Bruce/Windy/Jethro... But it is wrong to abuse private information. Do you guys run tags as a "courtesy" for the connected people ? That is wrong.

Not Bruce, not Jethro and not "you guys." Just Windy.

But I'll consider changing my name to one of the above if you change yours to KrankyinFla.

there are 11 counties in GA with county police forces, at least five of which are outside metro Atlanta. Nationwide there are less than 10% of the counties that have their own police forces, the rest are left to the elected sheriff's.

What the editors and writers for the fish wrapper(as ole Lester so aptly put it) don't understand is the underlying constitution and form of government we function under, which has, by the way, served us well for over 225 years. We elect officials, sheriffs included, to execute and perform functions and then hold them accountable if they don't do so to our satisfaction.

Liberals on the other hand are willing to turn everything over to bureaucrats in ivory towers and smugly believe mankind is better off being controlled by power hungry egotists such as Dunn and Wells.

Curse the commissioner that took Fayette County in to the Atlanta Regional Commission. What a waste and what exposure that we neither needed or wanted, for nothing in return. Well, nothing except to have MARTA at the county line, itching to haul their undesirables into our county.

after a little research, the actual number of county police departments in the United States is only 80, and Georgia has the most, at 12, Virginia second with 7, all the others are at 5 or less.

Of the 12 in Georgia, 6 are in metro Atlanta area, the other 6 scattered around the state.

Who reads the AJC these days? It seems the only ones are people in their 70's because they subscribed to it forever and that's all the news media they've ever know besides Channel 2 news. The older folks and the urban bottom feeders are the only form of life support that the AJC has left and that is steadily declining. So Wooley...don't sweat it. Consider the source. Don't ever spend a dime on it. Just pick it up off a table at Chick-Fil-A or the Awful House sometime and browse through it without having to pay for it just to remind yourself why you don't pay money for that crap anymore. Ooops..sorry Harvey. I gave em the honor of a mention.

Ahmen to your wisdom.

in 95% of the country? You don't have a clue highgreen! And until you know what you're talking about you really ought to stop talking through your butt. Everyone knows when you do that.

If I recall correctly, the judge that ruled specifically stated that the county had the right to sell the cars for the sheriff but were legally bound to turn the proceeds of the sale back to the sheriff's department for the drug fund. In short, Sheriff Johnson can tell Dunn to sell the vehicles and send me the money. Sounds like the way it should be.

Fine. We'll do away with the Sheriff Departments law enforcement duties and transfer that responsibility over to the commission controlled Marshalls Department and make it the Fayette County Police Department. We can then transfer the same needed detectives, helicopters, etc. over to the the new police authority and allow our law enforcement to be controlled and operated by the county commissioners. Would you really entrust our political hacks with that kind of power? I prefer to keep those powers seperate. We don't need to hasten our drift toward big brotherhood. I choose to limit the powers of our elected officials by not consolidating the power under one knucklehead authority.

Think out of the box once in awhile! No, we don't transfer anyone from the sheriff's department. We hire a professional director of public safety and they hire by needs and qualifications, not how they vote. We don't need Wyatt Earp chasing down public officials to confiscate county cars!

I had forgotten about the incident of retrieving the county cars but I heard the real story at the courthouse two weeks ago. I hate responding to Highgreen because I don't think he is real. I think he is someone out there intentionally irritating us. This is the story around the Justice Center.

Greg Dunn and Dennis Davenport had spent months calling the Justice Department in Washington D.C. trying to get them to stop sharing federal drug seizure money with Fayette County because of the on going civil litigation between Dunn and Johnson (which irratates the hell out of me because no matter how we use it, why refuse it.) The Justice Department refused to put Fayette County in bad standing with the Feds so Greg Dunn had his cronies confiscate cars which had been purchased with federal drug funds. Their intention was to sell them at auction and put the money in the county cofer, a blatant violation of the federal asset forfeiture program which would have put the Sheriff's Dept. in bad standing with the feds. The Sheriff stopped it. There it is. This appears to be the rest of the story as Wake Up would put it. Why did the press not tell us that.

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It is simple. The county owns the cars, not the sheriff. He uses them.

Wasn't that one settled in a court of law???

Don't respond to him and he will go away.

I don't have the time you do to monitor these postings but I've monitored you enough to know you carry credibility. I need to know if Highgreen is really Steve Brown. I had seen a posting saying that Joey so-and-so was him but I didn't know for sure and did not know he might be Highgreen as well. I don't know him but my wife knows his wife and I need to know the truth before I post what I know.

highgreen109 is one of them. He also has lot's of time and creates arguments with himself just so he can see how others respond.

Joey is Dan Tennant.
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Steve Brown-houseboy. It irritates me to now know that when I rolled out of bed at 5:30 a.m. to get ready for work Brown laid there allowing his wife to get up and get ready for work to support them. Later in the day he will roll out of bed and fire up her computer and give us opinions we voted to no longer hear.

Hint to Steve; call Bob and see if he has an extra room for you. I don't know that your wife is going to put up with you much longer.

Wow Hamster. At least you quit calling me Steve Brown. That was starting to hurt. Georg...it is the Central Authority I indeed do fear. I know you were poking fun but that is truly the main issue here. Highgreen scares the hell out of me saying we should hire THEIR enforcer....I mean Director of Public Safety. How political would that get. Kind of Gestapo like wouldn't you say?

think outside the box. What - you want to live in a democracy all your life? The people can't be trusted to choose. We need a central authority.

It's not exactly an original idea - it's been tried before. But you can't expect a fresh idea from someone who's still using the term "think outside the box" without irony, can you?