Lies, Lies, And More Lies. Politicians Behaving Badly

May 14, 2013 - PRLog -- By Kenneth Stepp

I find it amazing that people complain about politicians who lie and cheat, then they elect them and re-elect them. Former Gwinnett county commissioner Kevin Kenerly was re-elected several times even though his crooked deals were well known long before the grand jury indicted him. Now it looks like there’s a similar situation in Snellville.

Mayor Kelly Kautz’s actions are not in the same league as the allegations against Kenerly, but they’re still unethical and possibly illegal. Is anyone surprised? It’s painfully obvious to anyone looking that Snellville’s  mayor Kelly Kautz lied and or misrepresented things while she was a member of the city council. But the citizens of Snellville elected her mayor anyway (been an expensive decision so far). Now she has been caught in lie after lie. What did they expect?

Since I’ve been investigating ethics on the Snellville City Council I have found that Kautz’s behavior can only be described as sociopathic. In her latest escapade, she originally claimed she was in court when she was supposed to be attending to City business. Then she said she was at the county jail serving as duty attorney on that day. When some citizens checked the log at the jail and found her name wasn’t on it, she changed her story and said she misspoke and was in juvenile court. Anybody with an iota of intelligence knows the difference between being a duty attorney at the jail and defending an individual juvenile in juvenile court. My guess is that she wasn’t there either, and I will find the documentation to prove it. It was only after I visited the jail and interviewed the deputy in charge that she changed her story.

So it seems instead of attending to city business, she was getting her fingernails done because she had a formal dinner to attend that night. She could have avoided most of this bad publicity if she had not brought the matter up again but she wanted to use the fact that other council members were unable to attend the day’s events to make them look bad. The difference is the other council members notified the city that they had prior commitments and couldn’t attend. They also didn’t lie about the reasons.

Now Kautz seems to be lying in an attempt to put a spin on her use of city money to pay for private legal work. She even wrongly accused other council members of doing the same thing that she did. I’ll have more details as my investigation continues, but it seems to me that Kautz has gone way beyond telling lies.

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