Comments on: Bannister Fiddles While Gwinnett Burns http://www.talkgwinnett.com/2009/bannister-fiddles-while-gwinnett-burns/ Home of the Gwinnett Blogosphere Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:28:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Bob Griggs http://www.talkgwinnett.com/2009/bannister-fiddles-while-gwinnett-burns/comment-page-1/#comment-68 Bob Griggs Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:07:11 +0000 http://www.talkgwinnett.com/2009/bannister-fiddles-while-gwinnett-burns/#comment-68 "We found a dead body in the living room and a dead body in the den. The floor was covered with kilo wrappers [for drugs] and there was a money-counting machine set to count hundred-dollar bills... There were mattresses on the bedroom floor, a pickup in the garage and big buckets of charcoal placed throughout the house to absorb the odor of cocaine." A drug-processing house in Juarez, Mexico, right?  No, actually a house on Village Green Court off Arcado Road... just two streets over from Chairman Charles Bannister's residence in Lilburn... Read the full story: <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-cartel_bdmar29,0,6179107.story" rel="nofollow">http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-cartel_bdmar29,0,6179107.story</a> “We found a dead body in the living room and a dead body in the den. The floor was covered with kilo wrappers [for drugs] and there was a money-counting machine set to count hundred-dollar bills… There were mattresses on the bedroom floor, a pickup in the garage and big buckets of charcoal placed throughout the house to absorb the odor of cocaine.”

A drug-processing house in Juarez, Mexico, right?  No, actually a house on Village Green Court off Arcado Road… just two streets over from Chairman Charles Bannister’s residence in Lilburn…

Read the full story: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-cartel_bdmar29,0,6179107.story

]]> By: Bob Griggs http://www.talkgwinnett.com/2009/bannister-fiddles-while-gwinnett-burns/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Bob Griggs Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:02:13 +0000 http://www.talkgwinnett.com/2009/bannister-fiddles-while-gwinnett-burns/#comment-66 Enacted two years ago, the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act did not include any provision for enforcement. As a consequence, Georgia cities and counties were in no hurry to comply with the law. <a href="http://www.legis.ga.gov/legis/2009_10/sum/hb2.htm" title="HB2" rel="nofollow">House Bill 2</a>, currently pending before the Senate Public Safety Committee, is intended add some teeth to the original bill. HB-2 is opposed by both the Georgia Municipal Association (GMA), the organization that represents cities at the State House, and the Association of County Commissioners of Georgia (ACCG). Both are powerful lobbying groups and, unfortunately in this instance, hold great influence over your state representatives and senators. The bill has already been weakened by amendments promoted by the two groups. If you would want Georgia's cities and counties to obey the law regarding verifying their own employees as well as applicants for public benefits like business licenses, you should encourage your state representatives to pass this bill. Use these forms to contact all Gwinnett Representatives (<a href="http://www.talkgwinnett.net/index.php?option=com_contact&task=view&contact_id=8&Itemid=99" rel="nofollow">here</a>) and Senators (<a href="http://www.talkgwinnett.net/index.php?option=com_contact&task=view&contact_id=9&Itemid=99" rel="nofollow">here</a>). Enacted two years ago, the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act did not include any provision for enforcement. As a consequence, Georgia cities and counties were in no hurry to comply with the law. House Bill 2, currently pending before the Senate Public Safety Committee, is intended add some teeth to the original bill.

HB-2 is opposed by both the Georgia Municipal Association (GMA), the organization that represents cities at the State House, and the Association of County Commissioners of Georgia (ACCG). Both are powerful lobbying groups and, unfortunately in this instance, hold great influence over your state representatives and senators. The bill has already been weakened by amendments promoted by the two groups.

If you would want Georgia’s cities and counties to obey the law regarding verifying their own employees as well as applicants for public benefits like business licenses, you should encourage your state representatives to pass this bill. Use these forms to contact all Gwinnett Representatives (here) and Senators (here).

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