Have you heard the roaring silence coming out of the Georgia Senate this legislative session? Whatever toil and trouble simmers among the Republican leadership has at least been kept largely out of media headlines. That’s a big step forward from the not-too-distant past, when the squabbling got entirely out of hand. Maybe things in the upper chamber are on the up and up. RISING
Atlanta paid deadbeat $910,00 for virtually no work
It’s outrageous that Atlanta taxpayers paid Foris Webb $910,000 for two years even though he produced little record any “work.” After reviewing invoices and emails, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution found he was supposed to be overseeing a petition calling for a vote on the Atlanta police/fire training center. Yet by the time the “consulting contract” was discovered and payments were being made, the center had opened, the referendum never occurred and petition signatures were forgotten. Mayor Andre Dickens and the City Council are blaming each other, but who issued this no-work contract to Webb? No one knows—for now. This incredible taxpayer rip off has Atlanta SINKING…
