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Pass the Kidney Stone Already Augusta loses ground
Apparently at the end of his rope, a riled up Bill Lockett requested a forensic audit be done on “the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker” this week. A kidney stone would be easier to pass. Something Lockett already knows. It is a telling sign of the state of Augusta government today. A forensic audit a) takes forever 2) is time consuming C) is expensive as all get out and 4) is a fishing expedition on the scope of a Bill Clinton deposition. For a while there it looked like the city had made a turn. The mayor attended more prayer breakfasts in his first term and even to this day he gives a long speech to his family before eggs in the morning. But those days are long, long, long gone. It’s racial lines all over again, with no leader and nothing but suspicion on all the commissioner’s minds. Suspicion and contempt. With this type of governing, what on earth is sliding through the cracks? What shady deals are being conducted while the commission swordfights one another? Trust us — a lot. But unfortunately, only time will bring them to the surface, and by then these guys will be golfing and greeting at Walmart.
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