Blacks officials in the rapidly deteriorating city of Atlanta decided to sue rather than allow successful white “evacuees” to incorporate prosperous new cities in the Northern suburbs of Dekalb and Fulton counties.
For years, government scandals, rackets, political corruption, and charges of bribery have plagued a city that is becoming known as “The Detroit of the South,” all culminating in the threatened 2013 loss of accreditation for the Dekalb County School System. During that time, communities in the North Atlanta suburbs “…began the process of incorporating into cities,” with 6 having been carved out of the Atlanta hinterland by 2011 as hundreds of thousands of taxpayers were lost from the city’s tax base.
But the continued electoral fortunes—and perhaps, increasing personal wealth– of Atlanta’s politicos depend upon preserving the lynchpin of Democrat politics–robbing from the rich in order to acquire the votes of the poor. And that’s a system that doesn’t work very well when the rich are spending their tax dollars elsewhere.
So in March of 2011, the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus filed suit seeking the dissolution of the newly incorporated cities, claiming that “…the creation of the new cities diluted African-Americans’ voting power, access, and influence.” In short, plaintiffs pointed out that although blacks had been numerous enough to control election results in and around Atlanta, thanks to incorporation of “super-majority white” cities, blacks who live in them are no longer able to put fellow blacks in office in the overwhelming numbers to which they had become accustomed. As a result, a significant number of residents in the counties that make up Atlanta have escaped the liberal rule that is destroying the city economically, black politicians are losing power and control, and a city already struggling financially will have to make due with even less revenue in the future.
As the Georgia NAACP sees it, such hard-heartedness toward minorities is “…part of an alleged conspiracy to get rid of black office holders and deprive black voters of their rights.” “We’ve fought too hard and bled too long to allow our officials to be removed by a dictator,” said NAACP President Edward Dubose of the plight of 6 members of the Dekalb County School Board, removed from office by Governor Nathan Deal as a result of the threatened accreditation loss. Five of those Board members are black.
On February 8th, a federal court panel rejected the claims and demands of the Black Caucus, refusing to dissolve incorporation of the Northern county cities. A lawyer representing the plaintiffs said he would not appeal, but rather file an amended lawsuit.
Those who believe the recent incorporation of suburbs to be a function of racism rather than a longed-for escape from the corruption of Atlanta politics should know that the ousted school board members are demanding that taxpayers foot the bill for their defense “… because [they]… see their positions as a civil rights entitlement…” Lose a job as a result of incompetence (or worse), and demand that taxpayers get it back for you. How could that be upsetting to anyone, unless of course you’re a racist?
Needless to say, the creation of brand new school districts managed by brand new Boards is a priority in the newly incorporated cities!
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When The Accused Is A Democrat, Even Sex Crime Charges Seem To Vanish
Last year, a 27 year old elected Democrat who represents Scottsville in the Albermarle County Virginia Board of Supervisors was charged with a serious sexual crime. As the charges go, while he was a law student, Christopher Dumler committed the vilest type of criminal sexual assault on a fellow female law student. Both were at the University of Virginia Law School at the time.
Court records show that Democrat Supervisor Dumler was accused of committing an act of forcible anal sodomy “by threat or intimidation upon the victim.”
The police in Albermarle County investigated the charge and say Democrat Supervisor Dumler knew the victim and that they are “working closely with the commonwealth attorney’s office” in their investigation. Denise Lunsford, the Commonwealth’s Attorney for Albermarle County, is an elected Democrat, so what do you think happened?
When the case was settled, Dumler was convicted of “sexual battery” which is the crime of sexually abusing a complaining witness against his/her will, by force, threat, and/or intimidation, as a Class 1 misdemeanor. In Virginia, conviction of a Class 1 misdemeanor calls for a jail sentence of up to “twelve months and a fine of up to $2,500, either or both.” He was sentenced to thirty days in jail with no mention of a fine.
The worst part of this plea bargain was that when the news of his arrest went public, two more women came forward to allege they too were victimized by the Democrat Supervisor.
Every report of this case describes Dumler as a “rising star in the Democrat Party.” He is a young lawyer, an Army Reserve Captain, and has already been elected to a county-level position.
Now the Democrat voters of Albermarle County aren’t so pleased with Dumler, whom they voted for 54/46 without really knowing. He had lived in the county just three years before winning his Board of Supervisors position, but being a Democrat was all they needed to know about him. An angry female resident of Albermarle County asked when he will “just go away?” She said “He’s an embarrassment to our community. Why doesn’t he just resign? We don’t need a sex criminal to hang on to his office here just because he legally can.”
It goes without saying Democrat Dumler is refusing to resign even in the face of his ridiculous thirty day jail sentence. Democrats just don’t have to face the same punishments the rest of us do.
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