It’s no secret that DeKalb County has a bit of a corruption issue, so it wasn’t exactly a shock to hear that former County Commissioner Sharon Barnes Sutton was arrested Tuesday by the FBI on charges of bribery and extortion. The FBI had been investigating Sutton for more than four years, that following investigations from journalists and the DeKalb Ethics Board. She lost a race for her seat in 2017. We’ll see a trial date set soon, but it looks like prison time is in the cards for Sutton, whose ship is clearly SINKING…
Dems find mess in CD-11
Georgia Democrats had a mess on their hands in the 11th Congressional District outside Atlanta after the party nominated Katy Stamper, later finding out she wasn’t a Democrat at all and had far-right political leanings. So they launched a write-in campaign promoting Tracey Verhoeven as the ‘real’ Dem in the race. It didn’t matter in the end as U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk cruised to re-election, but Stamper still got 32% of the vote to just 3% for Verhoeven. A failed write-in campaign and a messy election in CD-11 has Democrats there SINKING…
