Bad check funds falling (DA Mourns Lack of Bad Checks!)

Montgomery (Alabama) Advertiser ^ | 30 September, 2003 | Marty Roney

[TankerKC]

They MUST NOT solve the problems they are tasked with solving.

This story certainly confirms that.

[yawningotter]

Don't worry about the District Attorneys losing money. There is enough Federal money floating around that they can more than make up for any shortfall. I especially have no sympathy for Ellen Brooks. The Montgomery County DA has the task of prosecuting corruption in state government, and Ellen Brooks was invisible during the Siegleman years, in spite of everything that was going on.
As for drug cases, I saw a newspaper article a few days ago that stated that drug busts were way up in Autauga and Elmore counties. That makes sense when you consider asset forefiture and budget shortfalls. Bust a few druggies who were driving expensive SUVs when they were caught and you pretty much make up that shortfall.

[TankerKC]

Prosecutors need 'bounce' in revenue

More silliness. It looks like the editorial board of our local rag is trying to justify the previous day’s article.

[TankerKC]

Interesting that the editor uses the term "tenuous funding sources" as if it were in the original article. It isn't in there!

[from occupied ga]

As an added bonus, you get to send in SWAT teams to kick in their doors and slap them around.

Not true, as an added bonus you get to send in SWAT teams to kick in their doors and kill them. Glory days for Hourichi and Braga types

[sweet_diane]

""If the use of these cards continues, a major funding source for district attorneys' offices will dry up," Houston said. "It puts this office in a very tough spot. We are already a lean operation. Our business is based on how active the criminal element is. We really can't cut services or overhead, so we have to find more funding sources."

I hate to even consider what they might come up with.

If the Bad Check Unit no longer has bad check writers to catch.... why does it need to exist?

[TankerKC]

Letters to the Editor Follow-up Bump

See if you can find TankerKC in there!

[Coop]

I don't know which one you are, but I'd like to throttle this punk, John Burgess.

A reader from Grady decried how we are now a nation ruled by the judiciary. I have to agree. Were it not for five miscreants in black robes, George W. Bush would be shoveling manure at his Crawford ranch instead of shoveling it at the White House.

[TankerKC]

Yeah. There are some real freaks around here. The editorial staff at the Advertiser is VERY left leaning.

[Monty22]

The police system certainly is basically a mafia shakedown organization at this point. Pretty sad.

[Coop]

Then they probably won't print my Letter to the Editor response. :-) Let's see if I can recall it from memory.

Speaking of shovelling manure (Letter to Editor, 2 Oct), I suggest Mr. Burgess of Montgomery learn to count. Seven - not five - Supreme Court justices prevented Mr. Gore from overturning written Florida election law and stealing an election. But perhaps Mr. Burgess focused on creative writing rather than math during his public education.

[TankerKC]

They may print it, with some "special" editing. The kind that turns your point around or makes you look like a kook. Believe me, I've had it done!

[TankerKC]

What's an 8-track? ;)