Savannah Mayor Calls Out DA

Savannah Mayor Van Johnson is a prominent Democrat who many consider a potential future candidate for statewide office.  But he is taking aim at a member of his own party, Chatham District Attorney Shalena Cook Jones, and says he may even endorse her Republican challenger.  The dispute stems from Jones dismissing five indicted murder cases, possibly because they involved former Savannah police detectives fired for lying.  But Johnson disagreed with dropping the charges, saying “I’m a mayor before I’m a Democrat.  The victims’ families impacted by violent crime don’t care if I’m a Democrat. They want accountability.”  The call out from a popular mayor has Jones SINKING…