State Rep. Phyllis Miller's house seat, because she 
was just appointed as
Gwinnett's first woman juvenile court judge. He
thinks he’s exempt from the
Georgia
Open Records Act.
Wannabe Lawmaker Playing
Tricks with Law
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep
repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." --
Joseph Goebbels
“Have you no sense of
decency sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?”
-- Special Counsel for
the Army Joseph N. Welch, to Senator Joseph R. McCarthy
or
Angry Dads Manual on Keehauling Your Wife
or
How Fathers Win Custody to Avoid Paying Child Support
or
How to Put the Screws to the Mother of Your Children
or
How to Wield Your Children Like a Weapon
"[B]ut my favorite Prosecutor told me the squeaky
wheel get the notice
and attention - so I am being SQUEAKY today."
-- Melissa Martinelli-Hardin, 2nd
Wives Club
Amazing, here are Warren Auld’s campaign
disclosures, and guess what? The Gwinnett PD does
him proud…
Just what we need another wingnut
legislating morality. Not that he's that moral or ethical himself, judging by
some the cases he's handled: rape, appeals for guilty-as-hell shoplifters , 'mad
dads' and the 2nd
wives who love them...
“Phyllis and I are friends,” said Auld. “She’s
done a good job for the 106thdistrict and the City of
Miller was recently appointed by the Gwinnett
Superior Court judges as a new juvenile court judge, the first woman appointed
to the two judge panel.
But
don't get too excited about that, because the NAACP has been trying to get an
African American appointed to a judgeship there for years.
"Because Juvenile Court judgeships are appointed, the Gwinnett branch of the NAACP recently had mounted a
petition drive and letter-writing campaign encouraging the Superior Court to
select a person of color for the open post. At least three African-American
candidates were in the running.
On Tuesday, the Rev. John Stewart, the branch president, said that
although the campaign failed, it did draw attention to the lack of diversity in
the county's judiciary.
In Juvenile Court, minority children accounted for 56 percent of
the cases last year.
"I respect the decision of the Superior Court," Stewart
said, but "I continue to believe that having diversity on the court is a
compelling county and state issue. I trust we've raised the issue in the public
forum sufficiently.
Miller said she would be willing to
work with the NAACP branch on ways to help juvenile offenders.”
Ahh, but will she be willing to work
with mothers who have lost custody
in Gwinnett Juvenile Courts due to overzealous
custody switching?
For Immediate Release:
June 9, 2005
Warren Auld Announces Candidacy for House 106th
Contact: Warren Auld
Office: (770)-972-3693
Mobile: (404)-441-5566
Snellville, GA – Snellville City Councilman Warren Auld announced today his
intention to run for the District 106 seat in the House of Representatives
currently held by Phyllis Miller. Auld, who won election to the Snellville
City Council by beating two opponents by better than a 2-1 vote margin in
November, said that he had intended to delay his announcement until Rep.
Miller had resigned her seat, but after meeting with Rep. Miller on
Wednesday decided to move forward with his candidacy even though she has not
yet resigned.
“Phyllis and I are friends,” said Auld. “She’s done a good job for the 106th
district and the City of
before announcing; out of respect for her and her office.”
Miller, who was named a Juvenile Court Judge for
said the decision to give up her seat in the State House was difficult.
“It was a very difficult decision to make,” said Miller. “But one of the
things that made it easier was knowing that there
would be a competent
candidate like
the district and will work on their issues and concerns.”
Auld said his campaign will be a grass-roots effort, focused on the
neighborhood issues.
“We need to work to protect the quality of life we have in Snellville and
the nearby areas,” said Auld. “We need to make sure our people are heard,
our neighborhoods are safe, and our traffic moves. I want to protect the
quality of life we have here, and look forward to hearing from everyone in
the 106th district.”
The date for the special election cannot be set until Rep. Miller has
resigned her seat, but will likely be in September, according to state
election law.
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http://www.gwinnettgazette.com/
http://www.gwinnettcitizen.com/wwwboard/wwwboard.shtml
http://www.gwinnettcitizen.com/wwwboard/messages/22921.html
Re: Voting for Warren Auld
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Posted by David Brown on October 31, 2004 at 15:27:32:
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"Doug", I will be voting on Tuesday, but I'll be voting for Chris Cook. Frankly, Warren Auld is the least desirable of the three candidates to me. I could live with Garry Lapides, but Warren Auld is tied too closely to the old Snellville crowd, for my taste. By the way, I hope you, "Jimmy Wix" and the other anonymous posters on this forum are able to remember your actual names when you go to vote on Tuesday:)
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/gwinnett/1104/09snellville.html
Auld joins
The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published
on: 11/08/04
The Snellville City Council, which had been chugging along for the past six months with one seat vacant, is back to full capacity.
Warren Auld became the
latest member of the six-person council Monday, when he took the oath of office
before the panel began its regular business meeting. In fact, he was
sworn in twice.
Auld was first sworn in by city
attorney Thomas Mitchell, who stepped in for Gwinnett
Superior Court Judge Melodie Snell Conner, who was
running late for the 7:30 p.m. meeting.
The swearing in went smoothly and
Auld assumed his seat on the board.
Fifty minutes later he was sworn in
again, this time by Conner, who administered the same oath.
An attorney, Auld captured 51 percent
of the vote in a three-way race Nov. 2, beating computer engineer Christopher
Cook, and Garry Lapides, a former member of the
city's Planning and Zoning Commission.
Auld, 53, represents Post 4, a seat
that had been held by former Mayor Pro Tem Melvin Everson, who resigned the
position in April to run for District 106 in the state Legislature. A Republican,
Everson lost in the July primary to Republican Phyllis Miller.
Isn’t
this cozy. Warren Auld is a Snellville City Commissioner, who oversees the
same Snellville police force that is responsible for arresting Rita? If my
recollection has it, commissioners fund police departments.
http://www.snellville.org/safety/publicsafety.aspx
http://www.snellville.org/safety/lawlinks.aspx
Ooh, money for police
services:
http://www.snellville.org/documents/admin/budget%20finance/general%20fund.pdf
Warren Auld’s electiondisclosure form
http://www.snellville.org/council/repsbios.aspx
Council Member D. Warren Auld
Warren and his wife Joan, who have been married 23 years, moved to Snellville
in 1995 because this was the place they wanted to live and raise their son
Jacob.
So, Warren Auld is an elder in his church, and
what pray tell is Christian about denying children a
relationship with their mother?
“Those
who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.”
-- Mhandas K. Gandhi
”The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped
anything but himself.”
-- Richard Francis Burton
Campaign
Disclosures
10/18/2004
| March
31 2005 |
BYLINE: MARK DAVIS
Staff
DATE: January 23, 2005
PUBLICATION:
EDITION: Home; The
SECTION: Gwinnett News
PAGE: JJ1
The Snellville City Council is
poised to make some angry noise when it meets Monday night.
On the
agenda is a proposal representing the first step in a plan that would force
Mayor Jerry Oberholtzer to share power to make
several important appointments. The mayor is against
it.
"To
me, this is not the way we should be running government," he said.
The
proposed revisions would be good for Snellville, said Council member D. Warren
Auld. "This is for the best interests of the city," he said
Friday.
The agenda
statement appears innocuous enough: "Authorize city clerk to place legal
ad for charter amendments."
Behind
those 10 words is a history of growing tension within the council, which in
recent months has clashed over issues ranging from rezonings
to liquor by the drink.
Oberholtzer
said he considers the proposed changes a form of political retaliation. In the
past year, he has sparred with council members over his support for liquor by
the drink, the Sunday sale of alcohol and his advocacy for zoning land to allow
dense housing in some areas of Snellville.
"I
seem to have a council that's turned on me," Oberholtzer
said. "They are dead-set to take the power away from the mayor."
The
proposed changes became public earlier this month, when a majority of the
council -- Auld and Council members Bruce Garraway,
Robert Jenkins and Mike Smith -- said they supported revising a handful of
provisions in the city charter. Mayor Pro Tem
The
proposed amendments would give the council a voice in who is appointed city
clerk and city manager, and who is nominated to be city manager and members of
the city's various regulatory committees. At present, the charter gives the
mayor sole power to name people to those positions; the rest of the council is
authorized to approve or turn down the candidates. It cannot nominate anyone
for those jobs.
The
amendments, if approved, could take effect after three consecutive council
meetings and two public hearings.
Supporters
of the proposed revisions said they would reflect changes put in effect last
year, when the city embraced a city manager form of government that transferred
the responsibilities of overseeing the city's day-to-day operations from the
mayor to a city manager.
In May,
with Oberholtzer and other city officials watching,
Gov. Sonny Perdue signed the bill approving the revised charter.
Now, Auld
said, the council wants to make smaller
changes
in the charter to refine the city manager form of government -- revisions that
don't need an act of state lawmakers.
"I
believe there is support for this," Auld said.
The
council's work session begins at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall,
Photo: Mayor Jerry Oberholtzer has clashed with the
City Council.
Snellville mayor will
share power
BYLINE: JOHN GHIRARDINI
DATE: March 1, 2005
PUBLICATION:
EDITION: Home; The
SECTION: Gwinnett News
PAGE: JJ3
The Snellville City Council voted
unanimously Monday night to force Mayor Jerry Oberholtzer
to share authority to make key city job appointments.
The vote to
alter the city charter culminates months of brewing tension between the mayor
and council over rezonings and liquor by the drink.
Monday's
vote was nearly an anticlimax, with few citizens in the audience and a subdued
council, as if the three-month battle had left everyone exhausted.
The vote
gives the council a voice in nominating city clerk and manager candidates, as
well as members of key committees. Previously, nominations were strictly the
mayor's purview and the council only could approve or reject selections.
The charter
amendments also set a $25,000 limit on the size of contracts the mayor can sign
without council approval.
"I
seem to have a council that's turned on me," Oberholtzer
has lamented.
In an
attempt at reconciliation, Oberholtzer himself voted
to approve the changes.
"I'm
going to go along with all of it," he said before the meeting. "We
need to move ahead and do what's best for Snellville."
Oberholtzer
had asked that a provision to give the mayor authority to make or second a
motion be included in the charter revisions, but the council rejected the
notion on a 3-2 vote,
A majority
of the six-member council -- including councilors D. Warren Auld,
Bruce Garraway, Robert Jenkins and Mike Smith -- have
supported the drive to change the charter.
Auld was
absent Monday night, having been called to the bedside of his ailing mother in
Mayor Pro
Tem
Backers of
the proposals have said they would reflect changes made last year, when the
city went to a city manager form of government that stripped the mayor of
responsibility for overseeing day-to-day management of the city.
Those
changes had to be made by the state Legislature and signed by Gov. Sonny
Perdue.
The
revisions to the charter voted on Monday night could be handled at the city level.
"We
want to bring the council into the decision-making process on these key
positions," said Councilman Robert Jenkins, who praised Auld for his work
on the issue.
In other
business, the council approved the master plan for a city park and rejected all
bids submitted for the 12-acre property formerly home to the city police
department. The council also unanimously appointed Thomas Mitchell as city
attorney and Sharon Lowery as city clerk.
SNELLVILLE COUNCIL POST
4: Traffic, safety, growth issues top agendas
Three candidates put forth their platforms during
forum
BYLINE: JOHN GHIRARDINI
Staff
DATE: October 1, 2004
PUBLICATION:
EDITION: Home; The
SECTION: Gwinnett News
PAGE: JJ3
American democracy was in full swing
Thursday night in Snellville.
All three
candidates for the Post 4 City Council seat made their pitches to nearly 50
Snellville residents at a forum sponsored by the Hickory Hills Homeowners Associ- ation.
"We're
concerned about traffic, speeding and illegal drugs," said Pat Bayles. She and her husband, John, are co-presidents of the
association.
Controlling
growth also was high on the agenda of both the homeowners group and the
candidates.
The
candidates' portion of the program rescued Mayor Jerry Oberholtzer
from what he described as a "barbecue" during a question-and-answer
session on issues ranging from missing street signs to new stoplights.
In the
running are computer engineer Christopher Cook, attorney Warren Auld
and former Planning and Zoning Commissioner Garry Lapides.
Cook
emphasized his lack of ties to real estate developers and past or present city
officials, and he vowed to be the homeowners' voice on the council.
Controlling
runaway commercial growth was a priority. The city's resources are "being
used in the commercial sector," Cook said, but the city "needs more
in neighborhoods."
Lapides
said that he "had a track record of supporting reduced growth in the
city," and that homeowners needed to be kept in the forefront. He said he
refuses donations from developers or builders.
He also
cited his criminal justice background -- he was a police officer -- and
planning experience as a plus in dealing with city government and public safety
agencies.
The major
part of his platform was controlling growth. Filling empty stores on U.S. 78 is
a priority, he said.
"We
don't want to let 78 turn into another
Auld echoed
the other two candidates on growth, traffic and safety issues, saying that the
police department must have adequate equipment and resources.
Auld also
told the crowd that communications between City Hall and city residents would
be a priority, saying he would draw on the people's experience and input.
"It
doesn't seem like City Hall hears the voices" of the residents, Auld said.
He
suggested a coalition of homeowner groups to speak as one on growth, traffic
and safety issues.
"I do
not believe that all wisdom resides with the City Council," Auld said.
Decision due soon on new
magistrate
BYLINE: BETH WARREN; Staff
DATE: January 31, 2002
PUBLICATION: The
EDITION: Home; The
SECTION: Gwinnett
PAGE: JJ1
Gwinnett residents will have the chance to
voice opinions about the 34 candidates vying for an open full-time magistrate's
position.
"It's
one of the most difficult, painful decisions I ever make," Chief
Magistrate Warren Davis said after looking over the resumes this week. "We
have more excellently qualified candidates than we have positions."
Magistrates
do everything from performing weddings, issuing orders of protection in
domestic violence cases, to deciding if police officers obtain arrest and
search warrants. They also hold pretrial hearings to determine if defendants
get bond and if there is enough evidence to send a criminal case to Superior
Court.
They field
calls from the public, hear civil disputes when $15,000 or less is at stake,
and fill in for judges in other courts.
The new
judge will fill a vacancy created this month when Joe Iannazzone,
a magistrate since 1988, was appointed a State Court judge by Gov. Roy Barnes.
"It's
an excellent training ground for future judges in higher courts,"
Superior
Court Judge Debra Turner, a former magistrate, spent a decade as an assistant
district attorney, but learned new aspects of the law in her five years as a
magistrate.
"It's
an extremely important court," she said. "The court is designed to be
user-friendly. The forms are preprinted. You can file a civil suit and have
your day in court without hiring an attorney."
There are
no minority full-time magistrates in the county, but that could change next
month. Two candidates for the judgeship, which pays about $100,000, include
Greg McKeithen, an African-American prosecutor, and Niria Baggett, a Hispanic prosecutor.
Other
prosecutors seeking the judgeship include Rosanna Szabo,
chief assistant solicitor; Jeff Kwiatkowski, an
assistant solicitor; and assist- ant district attorneys George Hutchinson and
Jim Miskell.
Two of the
candidates, Edgar Perkerson and Deborah Stone, work
in Juvenile Court representing children's interests during deprivation
hearings.
Part-time
magistrates who are seeking the full-time position include William Brogdon, Mark Layng, Sharon
Hopkins; Jan McKinney; Robert Mitchum; Robert Waller
and Jim Williford.
The other
candidates include Warren Auld; Charles Barrett, a Municipal
Court judge in Lilburn and
Photo: Chief Magistrate Warren Davis says public comment is welcome.
Woman says friend
drugged, raped her
BYLINE: Joshua B. Good STAFF WRITER
DATE: March 13, 1997
PUBLICATION: The
EDITION: The
SECTION: LOCAL NEWS
PAGE: D7
A Georgia Tech employee who took his
wife and a woman friend to a creek-side cabin in Gilmer County for a bikini
photo shoot is accused of slipping some type of potent "date rape
drug" into the woman's drink and raping her.
Bret
Williamson, 39, of Snellville was suspended without pay from his job as a
computer technician when Gilmer authorities filed the rape charge against him
Feb. 19. He posted a $50,000 bond and awaits a May 6 arraignment in Gilmer
County Superior Court. Investigators say Williamson's wife, Alice Williamson,
was at the cabin in Ellijay when the alleged attack occurred Feb. 15 and knew
he had sex with the woman. She has not been arrested, but could face charges if
the other woman's blood tests show she had tranquilizers in her system, said
Gilmer County Sheriff's Detective R.M. "Mike" Laney.
The woman
met Williamson at a Georgia Tech gymnasium, where the two lifted weights. The
36-year-old woman spent three years working out with the man and recently
confided to Williamson that she would like to be a
Williamson
suggested the woman pose for his wife, an amateur photographer, according to
Laney and court records.
During the
weekend trip, the woman drank champagne and wine with the Williamsons,
and she remembers waking up with Williamson on top of her, according to Laney.
Bret
Williamson and his attorney, D. Warren Auld, refused to discuss
the case Wednesday.
Man pleads not guilty in
assault case
BYLINE: KING, JIM STAFF
DATE: December 7, 1989
PUBLICATION: The
EDITION: The
SECTION: STATE NEWS
PAGE: E/5
Jim King Staff writer
A
Lawrenceville man today pleaded not guilty to assault charges in
In the Gwinnett case today, Lord was told of the charges against
him - attempted rape, aggravated assault with intent to rape, false
imprisonment and robbery. Superior Court Judge James A. Henderson assigned
attorney Warren Auld to handle Lord's defense.
Lord's
trial will take place no sooner than late January.
Lord is
accused of getting into a woman's car near Interstate 85 in September 1988 and
assaulting her. According to court records, Lord allegedly forced the woman to
lie on the car seat when he put a jacket over her face and threatened her with
a knife. He also is charged with punching the woman in the face.
If
convicted, Lord could be sentenced to 60 years in prison.
Tuesday,
Lord pleaded guilty to rape and kidnapping charges in
Lord's
attorney in DeKalb said the drifter pleaded guilty
because he did not want to put the victim through the trauma of a trial.
In October,
Lord's rape case in
Gwinnett jurors find Lord guilty
of attempted rape
BYLINE: KING, JIM Jim King Staff writer STAFF
DATE: March 30, 1990
PUBLICATION: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution
EDITION: The Atlanta Constitution
The
SECTION: LOCAL NEWS
PAGE: E/2
Steven Lamar Lord, who
gained national notoriety last year when he was acquitted in a controversial
Lord, 26,
of Lawrenceville, was convicted of attempted rape, aggravated assault, robbery
and false imprisonment for an attack on a 20-year-old
Lord forced
his way into her car, then ran off when another
motorist approached.
Last year,
in a separate case, Lord pleaded guilty to raping a woman in
Gwinnett
Superior Court Judge James A. Henderson sentenced Lord to 50 years in prison to
be served consecutively to the
"Clearly,
the first interest of society is to isolate him due to the fact that he does
present such a danger to women," Mr. Smeal said.
"He should be incarcerated until it's determined he's no longer a danger
to society."
Lord
received national attention last year after a
Although
evidence concerning the DeKalb and Cobb cases was
presented in Lord's three-day trial, the jury was not made aware of the
Judge Henderson
ignited controversy during jury selection by barring the public, including
reporters, claiming his courtroom is too small for spectators and prospective
jurors.
Photo: Steven Lamar Lord
listens as a jury finds him guilty of attempted rape. / Renee Hannans/ Staff
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