Terrell Bolton — The Gift That Keeps On Giving
It’s kind of a shame the former mayor had to give Terrell Bolton his walking papers. The good folks over in DeKalb County, Georgia — who hired Bolton as their police chief nine months ago — are getting a free show that proves the gods, too, have a sense of humor.
According to the report, Bolton was living in a pricey RV out in nature (in spite of what nature did to him first) and … man, you have to see for yourself.
Update: Yep, the news report isn’t new, though it was recently posted on the linked blog which is how I found it. But it was new to me, and good comedy holds up over time.
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It’s so funny when it’s happening somewhere else. All hail Chief Kunkel or Kunkle or Mr. Dodd or however you spell it.
How does this charlatan keep getting an executive-level job? I doubt that he could even be successful as a beat cop, let alone as a manager. Demotion to DeKalb County dogcatcher would be too good for Bolton. I’m just glad that he’s their problem now instead of ours.
There’s another element of this t.v. news story that goes unmentioned because it’s just so obvious to people who live in DeKalb County. For that matter, it’s also obvious to people in Dallas County who are familiar with our fearless former police chief’s reputation for not thinking things through.
Terrell parks his unregistered RV and rolling home (rolling traffic blockade?) at Stone Mountain. Suburban Atlanta is becoming a mecca for middle and upper class African American families. But here’s a little history lesson about Terrell’s campsite. For those who’ve never been to Stone Mountain, it features a Mount Rushmore-like carving on it’s side of Confederate heros Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson. Nothing wrong with that, I guess, in the historical sense. But in 1915, Stone Mountain is where the modern Ku Klux Klan got started — the place where hooded knuckleheads all got together and dreamed up charming ideals such as cross burnings, race hatred and lynchings.
I forget — what was the word that Laura Miller used to describe Terrell? Oh yeah, that.
Anyway, nice parking place Terrell.
Ahhhh…Terrell ‘corporal psoriasis’ Bolton: After putting a plaque of Laura Miller at City Hall with her famous quote engraved, David Kunkle should be carried through the streets of Dallas on a flatbed while citizens toss (re-cycled) roses. Why wait for St. Patrick’s? Meet me at Peak and Bryan.
Let’s just hope they keep him over there and don’t send him back to Texas.
Just talked to ABC46. They said this story is a year old.