Just when you think it is safe to cross the street in Stockbridge then this happens out of the blue: “Former Stockbridge City Clerk Rhonda Blackmon filed a complaint against the city last month, alleging retaliation and racial discrimination in her non-reappointment last year.
Blackmon, who is white, started as interim clerk Aug. 31, 2012, and became the city clerk Oct. 22 that year. The complaint alleges that she was informed “Jan. 3, 2014, that she had been terminated by the newly elected, majority African-American City Council.”
Named as defendants in the suit, filed Dec. 15 at the Atlanta Division of the United States District Court, are Mayor Tim Thompson, who is white, and African-American council members Lakeisha Gantt and Anthony Ford, whom she said were not lawfully sworn into office, according to the city’s charter.
The three were sworn in Dec. 20, 2013, according to the suit, but they should have been sworn in Jan. 13, 2014, at a regular scheduled meeting that is called to order by the city clerk, and at a meeting in January following their election.”
After all the lawsuits of the past few years in Stockbridge and the mud and gore that has gone on it is never safe to say its over. There have been lawsuit on top of suit since the Eminent Domain Issue of a few years ago. It seems to never end. Stockbridge’s reputation as a quaint and quiet little Georgia town has gone south with the winter geese.
Concerned Citizen of Henry County
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