Rachet Rob Will Have To Wait 15 Days

At 4 pm today, June 30, the Atlanta Task Force delivered a $14,809.82 check to the City of Atlanta’s Department of Water Mismanagement. Rachet Rob “I’ll turn your water off” Hunter was poised by the phone waiting for the turnoff call from Debi “Debi Does Atlanta” Starnes. But the Czar was busy reading a document from city finance approving funding for The Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless. She has had the approved document on her desk for thirty days. The deadline for certification is this week. Task Force attorneys learned June 30 of this latest Starnes effort to block every penny that might fund the Task Force. The crime committed for messing with public funds is TORTIOUS INTERFERENCE.

The next bill of $8000 is due on July 15. Ratchet Rob will have to wait two weeks before he throws the cutoff switch. Judge Glanville ordered the Task Force to maintain payments and for the City, especially Debi Starnes, not to interfere with the funding or the operation of the Task Force. Starnes has blocked hundreds of thousands of dollars of public money from the Task Force who cannot pay its water bill. Starnes is currently (July 6) blocking a grant in excess of $100,000 which has been approved by the city’s Department of Grants Management. Other orders at the hearing (June 23) included subpoenas of emails from Starnes, City Hall and powerhouse Central Atlanta Progress. The President of CAP was quoted in the AJC as saying of the Task Force, (I paraphrase) Can no one shut them down? I wonder if that giver of all good will have to repeat that question under oath? Incidentally, there is much discussion about Starnes’ employer. Lead attorney for the City introduced the Czar as a representative of the City. But at the close of the hearing when Baker-Donelson Attorney Steve Hall placed Starnes on the list of those to be deposed the City cried NO she works for United Way. The Judge said she will be deposed. Gonna be very interesting who pays her salary and how much. Is her job description and salary public information? There is the slight odor of the CAP. Somebody knows.