Talk:Vernon Jones

This page seems to be only promoting Vernon Jones instead of discusing his political career. Perhaps it comes from a strict supporter of the CEO?

Auburnirishman 01:46, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Uhmm, thanks for nothing Office of Vernon Jones.

I concur. This article mentions nothing about the CEOs two rape allegations, or anything else about the continued destruction and discrediting of his administration. I live too close to this idiot to be unbiased, so I'll leave the editing to someone who doesn't completely hate him. A simple google search will reveal a lot of juicy and scandalous information, so get ready to get on your high horse. Don't forget to read about his controversial hiring of disgraced Dallas police chief Terrell Bolton, that's a good one. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Grufti (talk • contribs) 03:46, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

I have added every conceivable controversy that I can remember from Jones's tenure in office. Please feel free to edit and add more. I do this not to try to scathe or hurt Mr. Jones, but rather to bring to light history that has taken place during his time in office. — RBADAMS —Preceding unsigned comment added by RBADAMS (talk • contribs) 02:35, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Okay, not 24 hours since I added information to the article is it all dismissed, called "vandalism" by wikipedia. I specifically sourced every controversy and put it in this article as unbiasedly as possible. I am calling for this article to be LOCKED until someone who obviously is a Jones supporter can stop trying to "hide" his past. RBADAMS (talk) 02:59, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

I attempted to add more clear citations to the less flattering aspects of the entry before it was reverted. However, when I came back to look at it the next day, it had been reverted and placed under semi-protection; I have not edited enough entries to edit this article while under semi-protection. However, this article remains biased. As Mr. Jones currently faces a run-off and a possible general election in November, it is all the more vital this article show all sides of Vernon Jones, not just information found on his campaign pamphlets. LovesPolitics9 —Preceding comment was added at 22:54, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Okay, I will concede that maybe I didn't cite everything correctly, as wikipedia rules say that I should. However, it is imperative to Georgia voters that they be aware of Jones's good accomplishments and his bad controversies. I will not add these entries to this article again, as I just don't have the time. However, I encourage anyone out there to please include the following: voting himself a pay raise twice (he's now paid more than the governor); his insistence to be called "Mr. CEO;" his terrible relations with women (such as verbally assaulting a female citizen in her front yard; shoving Elaine Boyer up against a wall after she voted against one of his resolutions; and the threesome/rape allegations); allegations and rumors that Jones may be a closeted homosexual (rather or not these are true doesn't matter; the fact that the rumors are out there does matter); the botched rape investigation that led to his police chief resigning; his hiring of four police chiefs in a five year period and how a good number of DeKalb police were "held back" for not sharing his views on law enforcement, leading to low morale and high turnover; his promotion of black managers and reverse discrimination against white managers and the civil rights lawsuit filed against him by the latter (and his interesting comments during the secret deposition that he "did not know the U.S. Constitution, but knew DeKalb County;" that he did not consider the use of the word "nigger" to be offensive; and that he thought that the literal "n-word" meant "nice"); his vetoing of a commission bill that would mandate that all bars in DeKalb County close at 2 a.m. instead of 4 a.m.; his (and the council's) hiring of former Gov. Roy Barnes in an illegal closed door meeting to attempt to file a lawsuit blocking the Dunwoody cityhood. These are all I can remember. The information is out there. If nothing else, go back and see what I previously wrote. PeachPundit.com is a great source that cites most of its news back to AJC.com. PLEASE — someone fix this! RBADAMS (talk) 05:25, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

The problem with this stuff is Jones has never even been indicted on any of it. I'm surprised there isn;t a decent source on the allegations but I guess maybe papers like the ajc don't want to tackle it because it's all still rumor. If you want to defeat Jones... do what I;m doing and get your friends who wouldn't normally vote in a primary to vote for Jim Martin. You never know... it may make a difference.--Dr who1975 (talk) 02:43, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Whether or not he has been indicted doesn't matter; it happened, so that makes it worthy of a wikipedia entry. I'm not trying to disgrace him through wikipedia because of my own political beliefs, but I just believe that the voters out there deserve to know these things. And I'm not trying to start a flame-war, but I am a Georgia voter who actually regularly votes, so... yeah. Good one. RBADAMS (talk) 17:17, 25 July 2008 (UTC)