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Posted: Mon Jun 9th, 2008 07:57 pm |
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Floyd County Commissioner Garry Fricks was caught speeding in Calhoun with a suspended license (suspended in 2001), no insurance and using a tag that belonged to another vehicle. Does the Floyd County Commissioner need a raise so he can afford tags and insurance or is he in this country illegally?
If my statement sounds a bit crass, I intended it to be. I have been writing, e-mailing and calling our Georgia representatives, including our Governor, for almost 5 years to try to get harsher laws passed against people driving with no license or insurance. There are many illegal immigrants who fit this description but this man is not only a citizen of this country and this state but he holds an office in this county. His license has been suspended for at least 6 years, I don't believe he could say he just forgot to take care of it and it's rare to find anyone who drives with no insurance who does not know they have no insurance.
Ignorance of the law in his case certainly is no excuse. It seems that a lot of the people who hold an office think it gives them a free pass so that they are no longer required to follow the same laws as we ordinary people. I plan to run for dog catcher next year, do I have your vote?
Edited to correct my spelling when I'm angry!
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Posted: Mon Jun 9th, 2008 07:59 pm |
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Wonder why it was suspended in the first place? 
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Posted: Mon Jun 9th, 2008 08:02 pm |
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JustMe wrote: Wonder why it was suspended in the first place?
The article didn't say but it really upsets me when the people who help make our laws and enforce our laws are some of the ones who cannot seem to follow them themselves.
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Posted: Mon Jun 9th, 2008 08:04 pm |
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| Wonder how he got away with it for so long. I bet if I tried that I would get pulled over the first day.
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Posted: Mon Jun 9th, 2008 08:08 pm |
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failedbelle wrote: Wonder how he got away with it for so long. I bet if I tried that I would get pulled over the first day.
You and me both Belle. I've had insurance since my 16th birthday and I will have my 65th in December. Just think, if I were a commissioner, all those years of paying insurance premiums and renewing drivers licenses that I could have skipped.
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Posted: Mon Jun 9th, 2008 08:10 pm |
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| Yeah. I thought that they could check your insurance just by running your tag. Sounds kinds fishy to me.
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Posted: Mon Jun 9th, 2008 08:12 pm |
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He should lose his title. What an embarrassment to the town.
My hubby and I got stopped once for a drive out tag (we had bought the truck and you know how they put the drive out tag till yours arrives). They ran every thing but who our grandma is! Of course we were clean.
Shame on this commissioner.
Edit: for my dingbat spelling!
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Posted: Mon Jun 9th, 2008 08:19 pm |
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| His daughter's picture is in the paper for debutantes. I'd die before I'd embarrass my kids.
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Posted: Mon Jun 9th, 2008 08:31 pm |
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| He should resign today. Suspended license, no ins. and tag for another vehicle. We do not need a commissioner that does things like that
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Posted: Mon Jun 9th, 2008 08:33 pm |
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We had a car that sat up for 6 months before we had a new engine put in it. We gave it (signed it over) to my youngest son that Friday and I called Allstate for his insurance on it. The tag had expired but we thought you had 30 days to get a tag when you had just bought (or received) a car. Not according to Bartow County!
He was pulled over for the expired tag. He was not speeding. They threw him on the ground, searched him, searched his car, etc. found nothing! They took him to jail for expired tag and no proof of insurance. They put him in a holding cell and forgot he was there. After about 26 hours, he saw an officer in the vicinity and asked her if he could make a phone call. She told him they didn't know he was back there. He called me, I called Allstate who faxed the proof of insurance to them but they said it was too late even though he had insurance at the time of the stop, they had already written the ticket. We had to have a relative who lives in that county put up a property bond to get him out.
It took us two days to get his car out of impound, every time I called, they told me they didn't have anyone available to go down and get it. I finally called and asked if they could impound a car at anytime. They said they could and I told them that if they could put one in impound at anytime, they surely could get one out in 48 hours. The lady told me I shouldn't talk to her that way, her husband was with the Sheriff's office (I think it was the Sheriff's office she said). I told her that explained why she had the contract for impounding the cars. When I went down to pick the car up, she wouldn't come out and talk to me, she stayed in the back. I was never rude to the lady, just insistent!
I guess my son (he was 17 at the time) should have been a County Commissioner. It was our fault for believing that we had time to get the tag renewed, otherwise we would have never let him drive it until we did. I do still think they went overboard for an expired tag and even with proof of insurance sent to them they wouldn't drop that charge.
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Posted: Mon Jun 9th, 2008 08:35 pm |
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oldman wrote: He should resign today. Suspended license, no ins. and tag for another vehicle. We do not need a commissioner that does things like that
He was released on bond, I wonder if he drove himself home! He will get his hand slapped and things will go back to normal for him.
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Posted: Mon Jun 9th, 2008 08:39 pm |
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Spice my son and some of his friends have had this same kind of treatment when they were younger. It's not just young black men but young men in general that are treated unfairly by the police sometimes.
We all know this kind of thing goes on here though. I was once in one of the nicer restaraunts (couldn't afford it, it was a xmas gift) and the couple sitting next to me drank a whole bottle of wine (not a small one) and left. If I told you who they were you would know them by name. If that were me or my husband we would be stopped for DUI. I bet they didn't have a driver or call a cab either cause they just nonchalantly walked out.
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Posted: Mon Jun 9th, 2008 08:46 pm |
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failedbelle wrote: Spice my son and some of his friends have had this same kind of treatment when they were younger. It's not just young black men but young men in general that are treated unfairly by the police sometimes.
We all know this kind of thing goes on here though. I was once in one of the nicer restaraunts (couldn't afford it, it was a xmas gift) and the couple sitting next to me drank a whole bottle of wine (not a small one) and left. If I told you who they were you would know them by name. If that were me or my husband we would be stopped for DUI. I bet they didn't have a driver or call a cab either cause they just nonchalantly walked out.
You are right about the treatment of the youth but in many cases they do deserve it. My son (who is not black, he is Cherokee, Comanche, English, Irish, and German) is a mixed breed like me and like me he is very straight laced. He is grown, married and has a son of his own and has owned his own business for 4 yrs now. He does not drink, he even took juice boxes to his batchelor party and took a lot of teasing about that.
edited to mention that it was his one and only trip to inspect the inside of a jail.
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Posted: Mon Jun 9th, 2008 08:47 pm |
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| I can't even believe the story made the RNT..... seeing how his wife is the #1 ad sales person over there, and has been for years. Probably why you didn't hear about 2001. There was little competition for the RNT back then. Also, his PI cousin would probably have taken care of it (Horton) but he's dead now. Pretty sad that this is what we have to "take care" of our county.
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Posted: Mon Jun 9th, 2008 09:13 pm |
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This is why I fight the battle I fight:
ABC24-TV -- Memphis
Illegal alien held in fatal hit & run that killed child
Tate County officials say a man was drunk when he hit a small boy with his SUV and drove away. -- Jaime Perez, 35, is charged with DUI, leaving the scene of an accident and driving without a license. Investigators also believe Perez is an illegal [aliens]. He is accused of hitting 5 year-old Frank Brooks on County Line Road in Tate County.
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Island Packet -- Hilton Head Island, South Carolina sc
ICE puts hold on suspect in deadly prom-night crash
Federal officials are investigating the immigration status of the alleged drunken driver charged in the crash that claimed the life of Bluffton High School junior Josh George as he headed home after the prom. -- ICE has placed a hold on Juan Rodriquez, who is being held on a $750,905 bond at the Beaufort County Detention Center
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That being said, I think an American should really have his feet held to the fire for commiting the same types of crimes. An illegal immigrant may truly be ignorant of the driving laws but an American is not!
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