Nice Try Billy Boy

Sorry, Bill Campell, paying $60,000 in back taxes, a $6,300 fine and a 30 month sentence for being found guilty of 2 counts of tax evasion sounds about right to me. The judge says he factored in evidence from a friend about how you took records to hide evidence in the trial that might have worked against you. I can see that too.

I can't appreciate you and your supporter waving the black flag, so to speak, to make everybody all hyped up about your problems. I think you and bitch ass Frank Ski (a dj on the radio station down here in Atlanta) are about the only people that think race was involved. I was especially delighted at the responses from people on Frank's show yesterday.(Notes I hate listening to his show and I only catch it when people tell me something good like yesterday Is going on)

Frank had Atlanta's new major Shirley Franklin on their and was going on and on trying to make it seem like it was such a blow to black people in public office. Like now it was a big crusade out against black people in positions of power. Her response was to the effect of "No it doesn't make me nervous. I don't feel anymore nervous than any of my white counterparts that I talk to. Anyone in this office will be under a microscope because of the nature of the job. Its all about personal ethics." That's coming from a black woman mayor. Take that Frank Ski.

For some odd reason he also had one of the federal persecutors up there. Frank Ski has this complex where he thinks he's right and no one can argue against him. His mistake was bringing on a man that is trained to argue against other people that are trained to argue. He must be good because after all he is a federal prosecutor. After pointlessly trying to act like dude must be happy now that he got Bill Campbell. (like he must be really proud of himself) The guys beaks Frank's face in half. He tells him about how his daughter kept him up last night and how bad that was. He goes on to explain how he doesn't care about convicting Bill Campbell. He goes to work, he gets a case and he prosecutes. Black, white, man, or woman if you bring him evidence about somebody breaking the law he'll review it. If he reviews it and finds that its credible, he prosecutes. That's what he does. Its his job. He's already prepping his next case. He doesn't know Bill Campbell doesn't care about him in the least. Way more important than the fact that Campbell was black was that he was an alledged corrupt mayor.

He explained the case against Frank's buddy Bill like this: Aside from the fact that 10 people in his administration have been proven guilty of accepting bribes, there were records that proved undeniably all of Mr. Campbell's exploits. Trips with a news anchor in a prolonged affair, high stakes gambling, lavish gifts for mistresses, etc. Going through the records there was $160,000 spent beyond his salary and money received from being mayor and other engagements, that can be directly connected to him. Money that was not reported to the government at any point. Bill has yet to give any reasonable explanation for where the excess money came from. There is no way all that money came from him gambling. That is tax evasion, plain and simple. In the grand scheme it is impossible for the government to justify taking half of the money a person at McDonalds earns and not hold public officials to the same standard. They should in fact be held to a higher standard because they are officers of the government.

What can you say to that?

Frank had to agree with that. He didn't want to and tried to change the subject to discredit the person that came forward with charges of evidence tampering. Bill apparently came to his house and took paper records of all that gambling he was doing. He tried to say how wild it is for this guy keep track of the money at the gambling nights. They apparently gambled at his house every week and he was the banker. He wrote down he got loaned money and who owed who and who paid what. "Who keeps records of gambling between friends?" says Frank desperate to stop his point from disappearing into thin air. That's not even a whole argument. Who jumps out of a plane and gets married on the way down? Who washes their car and dries it with a diaper? Who goes out and rapes a five year old to cure AIDS? It all happens. The fact you have never seen it is irrelevant in court.

It takes me back to my age old motto. I'm not supporting anything just because. It has to have some logical sense behind it. I can't support anybody or anything based simply on the fact that they are black. It is very possible for a man to do amazing things and still be a jackass. Bill Campbell (supposedly) did a lot for black people in Atlanta as mayor. That's cool. I as a resident of Atlanta appreciate it. As a black man well aware of the struggles we encounter everyday, I commend you, Mr. Campbell.

So where'd the money come from?