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Government Corruption

Thomson Ga. Democrats and Power Elites lose, Mayor wins

2024-12-06

Back in August 2024.

The NEW Mayor of Thomson, Ga. called for a Financial Audit.

That’s Benjamin Cary Cranford, 52, whose story is in the Rantburg archives.

While in a meeting regarding 2 police officers, well documented issues. The GBI came in and arrested him, halting the meeting and the audits.

It seems certain persons of the former forever in office mayor and the county legal system wanted him gone, to halt the probes and audits.

So they arranged for the new Mayor's political arrest using fabricated evidence. Evidence, that it seems the County DA office did not question to any normal degree.

Ga Gov. Kemp suspended the Mayor and the temp mayor seemed a better fit for the local power brokers.

A few months later, the case finally made it to court. The jury heard the case and the Mayor was quickly found innocent of all charges.

Jurors interviewed exiting the courthouse were abundantly clear.
Everything in the DA's case stunk to political high heaven.
Basic evidence was never collected, and only verbal stated.
Several guessed, because it was assumed to be a slam dunk due to those pushing the case.

The Question many jurors had with the case was:
Why was the GBI following the Mayor around to begin with?

The Thomson police chief called them in, according to comments in our archives.
Yahoo’s report concurs.

Posted by:NN2N1

#3 Cited from https://www.etymonline.com/word/corruption
corruption (n.)
mid-14c., corrupcioun, of material things, especially dead bodies, "act of becoming putrid, dissolution, decay;" also of the soul, morals, etc., "spiritual contamination, depravity, wickedness," from Latin corruptionem (nominative corruptio) "a corruption, spoiling, seducing; a corrupt condition," noun of action from past-participle stem of corrumpere "to destroy; spoil," figuratively "corrupt, seduce, bribe" (see corrupt (adj.)).

Meaning "putrid matter" is from late 14c. Of public offices, "bribery or other depraving influence," from early 15c.; of language, "perversion, vitiation," from late 15c. Meaning "a corrupt form of a word" is from 1690s.

Posted by: Melancholic 2024-12-06 17:32

#2 Corruption continues to corrode the system to the lowest possible levels.

Posted by: Super Hose 2024-12-06 08:04

#1 Why was the GBI following the Mayor around to begin with?
The Thomson police chief called them in....

Yep! The New Mayor is cleaning house, Trump style and demanding accountability, audits and indictments.
The long time, good old boy click is over, the well known Powerful & the Elite Families are losing control.

I have put a feeler out to an well known anti-click political advocate in McDuffie co., to see if the person wishes to chime in with serious detailed facts.

Posted by: NN2N1 2024-12-06 07:49

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