ETHICS COMPLAINT NOW READY TO SUBMIT Not having gotten a reply from my 7/26/14 complaint to the 5 City Council members regarding the Mayors having spent $1,055.47 of City funds in an attempt to silence my blog site, I have already drafted an Ethics Complaint and will in the next day or two file it with the City Clerk. The complete complaint is also posted online at a site which I will post a link to once the item has been filed. The MDJ has requested a copy once it is filed. This is going to turn into a 3 ring circus and cost the City some $. Here is what I emailed to the Council and never heard back from any of them: ------------------------------------------------------------------ Malfeasance allegation put before City Council Saturday, July 26, 2014 [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Dear Council Members: RE: Complaint About Malfeasance by Kennesaw mayor During June and July of 2014 the current Kennesaw mayor mis-used City of Kennesaw resources, namely City employees and City funds, in an attempt to vex, hinder, annoy and intimidate a Kennesaw resident, myself, who has been a critic of the mayor for several years. Specifically, said mayor related to the City Attorney and Council members, various allegations regarding a blog site maintained by me, which is in part critical of various actions of the mayor dealing with several issues, but more recently the issue of Castle Lake Mobile Home Park. In this regard my blog site mayormathews.blogspot/ quoted the mayor as having said: * The mobile home residents are just being lied to everyday by the seller who is more interested in keeping his monthly cash flow . . . * What the owner is doing is borderline unethical in my opinion . . . * He is having his managers tell the tenants the land is not sold, which technically it is not, so he is continuing to rent to unsuspecting tenants never bothering to tell them they may have to be gone by June of this year. . . * Its pitiful, taking something super positive and it gets undermined by the residents not even knowing they are about to be put out. The mayor claimed to the City Attorney and Council that he had not said these things and required the City Attorney to do research over several days and draft a 3 pageCease and Desist; Retraction Demand Letter, all based on mis-statements and lies by the mayor*. Billing records, incomplete at this writing, show that the City Attorney and his Marietta legal firm have claimed fees and expenses of at least $1,055.47 for research, drafting, phone calls and emails. Also the failed attempt to serve this letter cost $180.00! Per my FOIA request this letter, billing information and emails became available and are now posted at the above referenced blog site and they are incorporated by reference as part of my complaint. The quotes the mayor denied making were made before a KSU Journalism class in March this year, and were published by these students as part of their class work and a video of the mayors 1 hour and 28 minute address to this class was also put online by them**. Clearly the mayor lied to the City Attorney and Council and cost the City of Kennesaw taxpayers a considerable amount of money on what was a personal vendetta with the mayor using his office in an attempt to silence a critic of his mayoral administration. The legal term for this is Malfeasance. REQUESTED ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN BY THE COUNCIL ARE: 1) That the City Council vote a measure of censure for the mayors actions, and 2) Require him to pay the entire costs of his actions in this matter. Sincerely, Bill Harris Citizen Journalist Kennesaw Resident 14 years
Posted on: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 16:57:21 +0000
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