Can you say that a little louder into the microphone? ⚾️
Can you say that a little louder into the microphone? ⚾️
Ask the hard questions. Fix the hard answers.
Rake the muck. 🏴☠️
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Keep asking the hard questions. Keep fixing the hard answers. Keep raking the muck — because it works. 🏴☠️
“When things go wrong in your command, start wading for the reason in increasing larger concentric circles around your own desk.”
— General Bruce C. Clarke.
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🚨If Mayor Henderson & Co. want to play stupid games, then Mayor Henderson & Co. are going to win stupid prizes. Sixty years of legal precedence in the Supreme Court upholds a citizen’s rights to say whatever the hell they damn well please about a public official, and that public official bears the burden of proof to show standing of actual malice. If a citizen wants to stand at a podium and call the Mayor or the City Manager an idiot, they have that right and cannot be silenced. If a citizen wants to stand at a podium and voice allegations against a public official they believe to be true, they have that right and cannot be silenced. Keep it up, Mr. Mayor. Sixty years of legal precedence and case law are going to deliver the stupid prizes your idiotic censoring ass keeps trying to cash in on.
Perhaps citizens ought to consider contacting FIRE through the link below and filing complaints with them. We’re sure they’d love the opportunity to bring this matter to national attention in a very public way.
See: https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/first-amendment-protections-public-comment-government-meetings
Ask the hard questions. Fix the hard answers.
Rake the muck. 🏴☠️
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🚨Pay Attention, City Council.
🚨“It’s an enticing thing, right? You see somebody living in poverty, you see somebody a victim of a crime, you see somebody that’s dealing with sickness, you see somebody that’s hungry— and you think: gosh, if we could just pull these resources over here and manage these programs, we could fix this. And yet somehow it doesn’t. It does not translate. Why? Well, because you’re setting up a different incentive structure — because what that person really needed probably was a family, or a community, or a church. What they needed was to be able to do a job, a productive labor that could help them take care of themselves. And now you’ve created an environment where you’re going to punish one person over here to help this person over here, and you end up creating all these different constituencies that are now fighting to get closer and closer to the seat of power because that ends up being the way you get taken care of. And it’s not just one group or another group; you see it across the spectrum. And it’s because it’s always tempting to believe that if *you’re* the one that controls the power, you’ll be the one that does something good with it — and even if you don’t be consumed with greed or whatnot, you’re still wielding a force that you can’t really control. You can have good intentions all day long, but people react to what you’re *doing,* not just to what you *intend.*”
— SFC(R) Nick Freitas, Virginia House of Delegates.
Perhaps our city council and local constituency alike ought to consider the truth of what Mr. Freitas has articulated.
We cannot continue this fiscal Peter-and-Paul charade any longer. If it is working, then why isn’t it working?
Ask the hard questions. Fix the hard answers.
Rake the muck. 🏴☠️
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⚾️ We hope W.C. Bradley hears these words and deeply considers how their actions will affect their own local market five, ten, twenty, and fifty years from now:
“So this is something we have lived through and we are here to warn you about what can happen if countries in the western world that became rich through the model of freedom stay on this path of servitude. The case of Argentina is an imperical demonstration that, no matter how rich you may be, or how much you may have in terms of natural resources, or how skilled your population may be or how educated, or how many bars of gold you may have in the central bank — if measures are adopted that hinder the free functioning of markets, free competition, free price systems, if you hinder trade, if you attack private property, the only possible fate is poverty.” — Javier Milei, President of Argentina, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, 2024.
Ask the hard questions. Fix the hard answers.
Rake the muck. 🏴☠️
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🚨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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🟦⬛️🟦 Residents are strongly encouraged to express their concerns and condolences for the brave men and women of the Columbus Police Department by emailing Mayor Henderson directly at [email protected] and cc’ing their city council members.
Ask the hard questions. Fix the hard answers.
Rake the muck.
www.MuscogeeMuckraker.com
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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.
www.MuscogeeMuckraker.com
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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.
www.MuscogeeMuckraker.com
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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)
