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On Sep 25, 7:43 pm, FredGarvinMaleProstitute
<maleprostit...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> A nickel is a nickel...A dime is a dime.....
> And a nigger is a nigger...all the time
>
> MACON, Ga. - Jack Ellis was elected Macon's first black
> mayor amid high hopes he would bring the city together.
> Instead he has divided it with one move after another -
> trips to Africa at taxpayer expense, his conversion to
> Islam, his reaching out to Venezuela's anti-American president.
>
> He has also survived recall efforts, constant bickering with
> the City Council and repeated federal grand jury
> investigations into public spending.
>
> Now, with just months to go before Ellis leaves office, some
> civic leaders in this city of 95,000 can only look back and
> wonder what might have been.
>
> "People were really excited when he was first elected eight
> years ago. As a community, we felt it was time, and he got a
> lot of the vote across all demographics," said Nancy White,
> a first-term city councilwoman who is white. "But a lot of
> people feel like he let the city down. There's a lot of
> disappointment. It could have been so much better."
>
> In fact, the divisiveness has prompted the mayor's apparent
> successor, fellow Democrat Robert Reichert, a white lawyer
> who is the choice of the Macon business establishment, to
> run on a platform of reconciliation.
>
> A towering 61-year-old with a booming voice and
> salt-and-pepper hair, Ellis is unapologetic about his record.
>
> "I have a certain power that's granted," he said. "I don't
> abuse it, but I use it. That's what power is for - to be used."