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Derwin Brown wound up winning the runoff election by a rate of 2 to 1. Not long afterward, J. Tom Morgan, the local district attorney, asked to meet him at the county courthouse. Morgan had been elected 10 years earlier on promises to rid the jail of corruption. The county has a long history, dating to the 1960s, of sheriffs being accused of fraud, bribery or cronyism. Now, he confided to Derwin, his office was targeting Dorsey...
...DeKalb. Indeed, in the summer primaries, there were no Republican candidates. So a victory over Dorsey, the Democratic incumbent, would mean a virtual victory in November. The primary, however, was too close to call among the four candidates, and Dorsey and Derwin, the top two, were forced into a runoff. An already bitter battle dissolved into a war of personal attacks...
...trying to account for $400,000 in bond forfeitures that are missing, overdue or otherwise not collected. This supposedly was the topic of conversation between Derwin Brown and the county official (clerk of court Jeanette Rozier) when the man in the Ford Expedition was watching them during the runoff election. Other bondsmen in town say they can find no record in the clerk's office of as many as 150 criminal cases in which they hold bonds. The companies are required to file quarterly reports listing the status of all bonded cases. "They were just not there, no docketing...
Several residents proposed having a instant runoff election instead of deciding the mayor's seat through the popular vote. Councillor Henrietta Davis proposed making the mayor's election "date certain," with the council having to select a leader by a set date at the beginning of each new term, still allowing the council, and not the public, to choose the mayor...
...staff Andrew Card sent a memo to all agencies ordering them to halt the actual printing of new regulations, enacting the same ad hoc moratorium that Presidents Reagan and Clinton used to prevent their predecessors' last-minute work from taking effect. Among Bush's targets: new environmental restrictions on runoff from animal-feeding operations and guidelines for managed-care programs under Medicare...