{"id":886,"date":"2018-10-28T16:24:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T20:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beforeyoutakethatpill.com\/blog\/?p=886"},"modified":"2018-10-29T00:05:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T04:05:58","slug":"carroll-county-part-3-mark-butler-and-the-beat-goes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beforeyoutakethatpill.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/28\/carroll-county-part-3-mark-butler-and-the-beat-goes-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Carroll County Part 3: Mark Butler, and the Beat Goes On"},"content":{"rendered":"

You might think that things would improve in Carroll County over time, but depressingly it seems like corruption and coercion never changes (see Part 1<\/a> and Part 2<\/a> of this series). A local real estate agent who became the district’s Republican Representative to the Georgia Legislature, Mark Butler<\/a>, saw fit to carry on a two year affair with a\u00a0 state-paid lobbyist.<\/p>\n

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Mark Butler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

for, you guessed it, West Georgia College of Carrollton, Georgia, stomping grounds of “Professor” Newt Gingrich and the Richards College of Business<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Architectural Rendering of the new building to house the Richards College of Business<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

West Georgia’s College of Business was built, of course, with the ill-gotten wealth of- you guessed it – local industrialist, Roy Richards<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Richards School of Business. At least someone is having a good time around here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When the college had the effrontery to eliminate the position of the state-paid lobbyist, Butler called an official at the university to inform him that he had “pissed off a whole political party<\/a>” (to Butler’s credit, he was not married at the time).<\/p>\n

Rather than being reprimanded for his misconduct, the Republican Party of Georgia did the logical thing by promoting him up and out of his position as Representative, to become… ta da! Candidate for Georgia Labor Commissioner. After all, the Republicans aren’t really interested in promoting the interests of labor, so why not have someone incompetent doing the job? It seems the job suited him well, since Butler doesn’t seem like a very ambitious guy, anyway.<\/p>\n

Along the way, Butler was accused of obstructing worker’s rights, and constructing barriers to Georgia citizens rights to collect unemployment insurance.<\/p>\n

Here Butler is tried by a People’s Court for hostility to workers and obstructions related to obtaining unemployment insurance, which we all pay into and is everyone’s right:<\/p>\n