Dont vote for Vernon Jones, he’s a criminal and liar! I posted many articles from late 90s and 2000s.
He was accused of rape,he stole $100s of $1,000s, believe me hes a fucking crook
Hes a phony even democrats said he’d change jis politics like a chameleon
Yes, i’ll some of the 1,000s of articles on him. Also he was involved with a sheriff that got elected and killed the noght before he took office
Heres one
The Ethics Of Vernon Jones
March 15, 2017 4:54 PM •
Vernon Jones’ return to the capitol didn’t have a political honeymoon so much as it had an armistice. Jones sent a signal of sorts at the inauguration of Michael Thurmond. Present for the festivities was Sharon Barnes-Sutton, who had just lost her seat to Steve Bradshaw, becoming the first commissioner in two decades to lose a race in a primary challenge. Sutton remains festooned with decorative criminal investigations and ethics complaints.Jones approached her, knelt at her feet, and kissed her hand.
Jones has ever since then been galloping through the halls and committee meetings of the legislature as a state representative once again for the southeast corner of DeKalb and part of Rockdale. The word most frequently used is “divisive,” though unprintable other language has been common
Jones — in between self-serving monologues in committee hearings about how much good he did for DeKalb as its CEO — has become the prime critic of ethics legislation binding the county he once led. His confrontations over the new ethics board has divided the county delegation almost completely along racial lines, which alarms most of them, black and white.
Yesterday, Jones offered a surreal attack, filing an ethics complaint against the county’s ethics officer herself. Jones argues in a letter to the ethics board that Stacy Kalberman “has violated the very law she is entrusted to enforce” by making public comments about the state of ethics legislation.The irony is that Jones does not believe the ethics board itself is constitutional as it stands.
— which was approved in referendum by 92 percent of DeKalb’s voters — may be legally flawed. A serious question about the constitutionality of allowing nongovernmental organizations to appoint members to a government body is under consideration in court, today. It’s part of the legal defense for former DeKalb Commissioner Sharon Barnes-Sutton over longstanding ethics charges.
Jones famously dodges the press. And he has steadfastly refused to present legislation he claims to have drafted that would advance his view of the ethics board.,” he wrote. “DeKalb needs a comprehensive, thoughtful, and rational Ethics legislation overhaul that protects the innocent and holds the guilty accountable. Likewise, the members of the Ethics Board need to be subject to the same laws that they enforce and execute as no one is above or beneath the law.”
Jones said he believes Kalberman “has consistently violated the spirit and the letter of the law with her involvement in getting legislative changes and amendments and making public media comments criticizing DeKalb legislators for not going along with her agenda.”
Jones raises a question about the ethics officer having the authority to both investigate ethics charges and then to judge those charges. “Kalberman currently serves as investigator, judge, jury and executioner in violation of basic due process and constitutional separation of powers,” he wrote. “In addition, the current legislation provides no real remedy for recusal of biased or conflicted out Board members and any temporary replacement; nor any sanctions for those who file frivolous and politically motivated ethics complaints with no basis in fact or law.”
The argument holds just enough water to give members of the DeKalb delegation pause. It is reasonable on its face. But … it is easy to view it as the mask hiding an intent to weaken oversight in a county that remains fraught with corruption.
If DeKalb Superior Court Judge Asha Jackson decides that the board is unconstitutional, Barnes-Sutton’s case goes away … as does the goodwill of the voters who expected better. The question is what to do about that.
Roughly half the delegation wants the legislature to wait and see how Jackson resolves the case. The other half want a legislative fix now, anticipating Jackson’s ruling while still in session, to allow for changes to be presented to voters as soon as possible.
Legislation is wending its way through the state house to change the appointment process, so that the DeKalb Bar Association, the chamber of commerce and other private entities would be replaced as appointers. Rep. Scott Holcomb has one set of bills to fix it. A separate senate bill crossed over and will ostensibly cover the same ground.
The seven-member policy committee of the DeKalb delegation reviewed Holcomb’s bill this week, and split on presenting it for a vote. Three supported it — Rep. Karla Drenner, Rep. Mary Margaret Oliver, and Holcomb himself. Three voted against it — Rep. Karen Bennett, Rep. Coach Williams (my rep) … and Jones.The chairwoman, Rep. Pam Stephenson, refused to vote, viewing the racial split in the delegation as intolerable and unwilling to perpetuate it.
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You shoud care
DEKALB OFFICERS SPEAK
Vernon Jones Walks Into A Bar…..
Read here about an encounter with Vernon Jones
POSTED BY DEKALB OFFICERS AT 10/17/2011
72 COMMENTS:
Anonymous said…
Old VJ is likely to start more trouble as he cannot stay out of the slime light
OCTOBER 17, 2011 AT 9:40 AM
Anonymous said…
Hmmm. "VAJ". My "vaj" is offended. Maybe it's not too late to get a sex-change operation
OCTOBER 17, 2011 AT 1:10 PM
Anonymous said…
What an arrogant SOB……dont sweat it Doug…..your so much higher in stature than that man can ever hope to be…but then again…you could yell to VERN….."Hey Vern…I know who he is!!!!" and leave it at that
OCTOBER 17, 2011 AT 2:10 PM
Anonymous said…
It appears Doug took the high road. What he could have said was,”One of the biggest ass hole / criminals I have ever covered.”
Anon 2:10: You make a good point and I would add there are several people who know who HE is.
Instead of worrying about what Doug is saying about him Vernon should be more concerned about what Don Frank is saying about him.
OCTOBER 17, 2011 AT 4:49 PM
OCTOBER 17, 2011 AT 5:58 PM
Anonymous said…
It wasn't uncommon to see V.A.J. hanging out at bars on county time & dime trying to coerce young, ignorant, loose women into thinking he was the President and going home with him. Just ask any of his former protection detail. He was and is a real piece of sh*& and a perfect representation of Dekalb County.
OCTOBER 17, 2011 AT 8:49 PM
Anonymous said…
That idiot will torque off the wrong officer one day i.e. W. Morris, etc. I still remember Bobo almost ending his ignorant ass at the CID X-mas party one year.
OCTOBER 17, 2011 AT 8:53 PM
Anonymous said…
I agree with Anon 4:49. I would be willing to bet Vernon made Dougs girl a 17 victim.
OCTOBER 17, 2011 AT 9:07 PM
Anonymous said…
Vernon Jones has got to be the most complex and misunderstood politician in the history of DeKalb government. I strongly suspect if a competent psycologist were to examine Vern, they would have real difficulty in classifying his personality. What we do know is that Vern plays a good political game, is crazy like a fox, and very smart, or he would be in prison like his associate, Don Franks.
What scares the hell out of the employees is that Vernon has no job, and is looking to DeKalb government again for future employment.
To those of you extolling the virtues of good ole' Vern, let's review modern history.
What DeKalb CEO enacted the NO "pay for performance plan" that drove DeKalb employee salaries into the dirt to pay for three big bond issues? What sane politician would allow the city of Dunwoody to leave the county with no attempt to meet their valid complaints of taxation without representation in DeKalb government? What was Vern secretly doing at the Athens Olympics when Mr. Hicks inopportunely committed suicide? Why did Vern order DeKalb Homeland security to perform counter-surveillance against the DeKalb DA's office? Who ordered Don Franks to perform GCIC/NCIC criminal background checks against Vern's political and journalistic enemies?
As clearly demonstrated, Vern is a sleazy, smart politician who will no doubt be found attractive by many of DeKalb voters.
If any of you doubt my fears just look at the reelections of Cynthia McKinney by DeKalb voters, and last heard rallying support to Libya's deposed dictator, Ghadafi.
My opinionated opinion,
KenC
https://dekalbofficersspeak.blogspot.com/2011/10/vernon-jones-walks-into-bar.html?m=1
Go research yourself, I’ve lived in GA since 1990, i know his history but you dont have to listen to me
The funny thing, CNN did it to themselves, they were greedy for ratings but they made their whole programming about Trump hatred, they shot themselves in the foot. Now no one is interested in what they say, because they either know they were lied to or the characters at CNN are not good at anything