GDOT loses again
The Georgia Supreme Court ruled today that the Ku Klux Klan’s legal bid to take part in Georgia’s Adopt-a-Highway program will go to trial.
According to the AJC’s Bill Rankin,
In a unanimous opinion, the state high court ruled against the Department of Transportation’s attempt to scuttle the case, saying the agency failed to follow correct procedure in filing its appeal. In fact, the Supreme Court said it lacked jurisdiction to consider the state’s appeal.
In recent months GDOT had threatened to shut down the Atlanta streetcar over safety concerns only to back down when the city called their bluff and now another loss this time to the International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Apparently federal incompetency has trickled down to the state level. Let’s hope they are more effective at managing all the tax money they are receiving from 2014’s HB-170 than they are at protecting citizen safety or legal strategy.
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Patrick Malone is a Business Advisor and Leadership Mentor headquartered in Blairsville, Georgia. He co-hosts Mountain Daybreak and Mountain Mornings, weekday news programs, and hosts This Week in Blairsville a weekend program on WJUL/WJRB. He is a mentor in Union County High School, serves on his church council and writes a monthly column on leadership in the animal healthcare industry.
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Boy that is some serious stretching you are doing to tie those three issues together…
A bipartisan, diverse group of Georgians needs to adopt the next section of that highway. Someone please let me know when you find one.
It’s not my idea originally, but it’s still a good one:
Just assign the klan highways memorializing civil rights movement heroes.