Residents may voice their concerns for the extreme levels of racial division being used as a political tool to achieve unjust racial political ends by emailing Mayor Skip Henderson directly at SkipHenderson@columbusga.org, while cc’ing their respective city council members on the email.
COLUMBUS, Ga. — After a years-long track record of demonstrated leadership failure and four professional studies showing the same, Blackmon has been offered a very generous severance package from the city. The package includes an astounding $250,000 lump-sum, healthcare until the year 2030, and his regular pension.
After years of quite literally destroying the department the man was supposed to lead, that’s an extremely generous offer.
Blackmon has until 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 5 to either accept or formally reject the offer. Should Blackmon choose not to accept the offer, it will almost certainly be immediately revoked.
Blackmon — like all city employees — is not entitled to any form of severance whatsoever. The offering is a mere courtesy on behalf of the city. City officials may choose to terminate any appointed city officer without cause at their sole discretion, in accordance with the City Charter.
Here’s your look at the entire severance offering presented to police chief Freddie Blackmon by the City of Columbus, Georgia:
YOU DON’T GET A SAY
While our city’s serial agitators may continue to claim that city council is somehow “making decisions without them,” those claims are self-evidently naive. Unlike the Sheriff, the position of Chief of Police is not an elected position, but rather an appointed one.
All decisions made about the appointment of any city officer are, in fact, made without input from the public. It is not a public vote. You don’t get a say.
Our city’s serial agitators make themselves appear quite foolish as they use their falsely-constructed narratives to purposefully manipulate the public in their own power-hungry quests for narcissistic personal gain.
To use extortionary threats of civil unrest — as many already have — to erroneously insist that our city’s government must somehow provide special treatment to one individual is, in fact, to suggest the overthrowing of the sanctity of our city’s government. That is a crime, and is perhaps a combination of several — depending on how a federal prosecutor may decide to operate, of course.
You can’t just use intimidation as a means through which to achieve political ends. That is the FBI’s definition of domestic terrorism.
For the non-troglodytic Columbusites that are at least somewhat educated in the ethics and laws surrounding the sanctity of government: domestic terrorism is bad. Very bad.
THE BOTTOM LINE
The severance package presented to police chief Freddie Blackmon is exuberantly polite.
In fact, under the same conditions of measurable performance failure, any other employee would have certainly already been relieved for cause. It of course begs the question of why that has not already occurred.
Perhaps Blackmon & Co. should remember how easily any potential claims to the contrary may well backfire on them at their own financial expense.
Perhaps the “& Co.” section of the Party should consider their pretty atrocious track record of inadvertently stating things in public that wind up exposing more than you intended to.
We’re sure GBI would just love to hear everything you happen to accidentally say in open court. By all means. We implore you.
Take the hint.
Residents may voice their concerns for the extreme levels of racial division being used as a political tool to achieve unjust racial political ends by emailing Mayor Skip Henderson directly at SkipHenderson@columbusga.org, while cc’ing their respective city council members on the email.
Facts are stubborn things — and we’ll keep publishing them, whether city officials like them or not.
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