🚨Two people speaking a foreign language walked onto someone’s front porch and tried to steal an American flag from a home in the Historic District last night on October 14. How aMaZiNg.
Wake up, Columbus. You get what you vote for.
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This is the consequence of our city’s leaders refusing to take the actions required to secure our city’s public safety. Our sincerest condolences and our deepest prayers remain with the victims and their family members.
This is the consequence of our city’s leaders refusing to take the actions required to secure our city’s public safety.
Our sincerest condolences and our deepest prayers remain with the victims and their family members.
Ask the hard questions. Fix the hard answers.
Rake the muck.
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How One Man’s Integrity Unites Our City While Others Play The Race Card
During the city council meeting on Feb. 28, 30-yr veteran CPD detective Byron Hickey called out city manager Isaiah Hugley’s dangerous racism. To his face. Twice.
Through the sort of integrity and courage that can only be forged through a lifetime and career of experience, Hickey spoke up against the race-baiting narratives being pressed onto him and his peers.
Good on you, Mr. Hickey. That is what real leadership looks like, and it’s exactly the sort of leadership our city needs.
Ask the hard questions. Fix the hard answers.
Rake the muck.
www.MuscogeeMuckraker.com
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“It ain’t happening here.”
“You may have done your killin’ someplace else, but it ain’t happening here.”
You can be the leader you wish you had. Take charge of your life. Take charge of your household. Take charge of your families. Take charge of our community. Together.
It ain’t happening here. Period.
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🚨 Hugley’s commentary here is an observably poor attempt at political deflection that attempts to use arbitrary emotion to negate hard statistical fact.
“Don’t worry, we aren’t as deadly as Detroit, so nothing is wrong.”
Columbus is approaching 200 people shot this year. That’s one-in-1000 residents shot; 0.1% of the population has literally taken a bullet in 2022.
The 2021 murder rate in Columbus was 34 per hundred-thousand. For comparison, so was Nigeria’s.
The second article Hugley referred to was all over the place last week. There isn’t a single objective measurable thing in the entire article. At all. It is a puff piece that provides an arbitrary opinion in a blatant effort to bury the observable, measurable facts.
The city manager used it as a political tool to deflect against the actual statistical rise of violent crime in Columbus.
The law enforcement officers Hugley was speaking to know that; they see it every day. They aren’t fans of his. Hugley’s words just turned those cops even more against him; they know he is misleading the public. They see right through every word.
People can think for themselves. They know when they are being fed a lie — and that’s exactly what Hugley did during that council meeting.
Ask the hard questions. Fix the hard answers.
Rake the muck.
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(Video from the Columbus City Council meeting held on November 29, 2022; clip provided courtesy of a local resident via CCG-TV YouTube Channel)
🚨 While Columbus city councilman Walker Garrett erroneously stated he has never heard of any issues with “Pedal Pub’s” operation, about ten minutes of googling reveals a plethora of grossly negligent accidents, legal issues, and severe injuries nationwide. Perhaps Mr. Garrett should whip out his phone and research what he advises on while attempting to govern a literal city. Here’s an excerpt from our full opinion piece on the subject:
“The Pedal Pub rollover crash that occurred in Atlanta this past May (injuring all 15 people on board and resulting in the driver being arrested and charged with DUI) is but one example of many.
Another occurred in Minneapolis causing the bus-sized vehicle to roll over, resulting from excessive speed while cornering a turn. This also brings up the negligently-poor design of the vehicle which places thousands of pounds roughly six feet off the ground, but we will discuss that in-depth later in this article.
A separate Pedal Pub accident later occurred in the same city of Minneapolis in which the Pedal Pub collided with a car on the city’s 3rd Street Bridge.
A third Pedal Pub crash occurred in Minneapolis on the city’s Hennepin Avenue bridge where the Pedal Pub was struck from behind by a Monte Carlo, sending 12 of the Pedal Pub’s passengers to the hospital.
Just this past June, an off-brand Pedal Pub-like vehicle operating under seemingly identical methods to that of the Pedal Pub company, ran over a patron in Detroit after she fell off the moving vehicle. Had the vehicle been outfitted with a guard rail or — dare we say — seatbelts in accordance with the law, the woman would not have been injured.
A Nashville man was severely injured after falling off of an open-air Pedal Pub car and being run over by a passing car, leading to the city of Nashville almost immediately banning the operation of open-air party vehicles altogether.”
Read the full article and discover the many other ways Pedal Pub is a dis
