Franklin Deposition Postponed! What do I put you down for, TEAM GOLIATH?

The deposition of former Mayor Shirley Franklin set for Monday, November 29, has been postponed. The deposition impacts the lawsuit filed against the City of Atlanta and the RICO, racketeering, lawsuit against several parties which includes defendants Central Atlanta Progress, (CAP), Atlanta Downtown Improvement Development, (ADID). A.J. Robinson, Manny Fialkow’s Ichthus Community Trust, Inc., Emory Health Care, Inc. and others, already named and some not yet named.

Franklin’s tight relationship with Debi Starnes, Horace Sibley and other conspirators in these lawsuits make her a pertinent witness for those who have to defend themselves against civil and criminal charges. Water at the Peachtree Pine Community was turned off three times during Franklin’s tenure. Her Commissioner of the Department of Water Mismanagement, Rachet Rob Hunter will be deposed in mid December.

TEAM GOLIATH looks forward to serving the poor especially at this time of year. Think of the millions of good people who gave through their work place, $$$, to United Way of Atlanta.

Civic-minded men asking Scrooge for help in Charles Dickens,’ CHRISTMAS CAROL, said, “A few of us are endeavoring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth. We choose this time, because it is the time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down for?”

“Nothing,! Scrooge replied.

The Peachtree Pine Community owes $30,000 to Georgia Power. It is an honest debt and The Southern Company has been generous and kind. We have no money; our funds have been cut to zero. Without a miracle The Pine will soon be dark and cold. We ask you as Scrooge was asked for a means of warmth, a little light. Please help.

What do I put you down for, Shirley Franklin? What do I put you down for, Rob Hunter? What do I put you down for, Debi Mae Starnes? What do I put you down for, Bonnie Ware? What do I put you down for, Bruce Gunter? What do I put you down for, Chris Allers? What do I put you down for, Milton Little? What do I put you down for Notip Biswax? What do I put you down for, Jack Hardin? What do I put you down for, Horace Sibley? What do I put you down for, Greg Pridgeon? What do I put you down for, Sam Williams? What do I put you down for, Peggy Denby? What do I put you down for, Rufus Terrill? What do I put you down for, A. J. Robinson? What do I put you down for, Rich Orr? What do I put you down for, Paul Kellman? What do I put you down for, Dave Wardell? What do I put you down for, George Wirth? What do I put you down for, Manny Fialkow? What do I put you down for, Pete Walker? What do I put you down for Nun Sister Jane Garety? What do I put you down for, Tom Cousins? What do I put you down for Dianne Leavesley? What do I put you down for, Kate Webb?

If you could spare a dime, just go to Paypal on the Task Force website: homeless taskforce.org. Better yet mail a check to Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless. Our mailing address is: 477 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA 30308. Best yet come by our coffee shop and have a cup and cupcake with me. We will give you a tour of the Community.

The Task Force is a 501 – (c) – 3 nonprofit organization registered with Georgia’s Secretary of State. Our tax ID # is 58 – 1715897. Your donation is tax deductible and deeply appreciated.

James Wilson Beaty
Jeremiah 22.16
November 25, 2010

Horace Sibley’s Safety Zone

On March 10, 2010, I blogged a piece called, “Task Force Chairman Bob Cramer and TEAM GOLIATH.”  In that blog I quoted  an email written November 15, 2007 from Horace Sibley to Mayor Shirley Franklin.  Sibley’s stated subject was: Re: Bob Cramer’s meeting request.  Sibley warned the mayor that Cramer was not to be trusted.  He wrote, “We have found Cramer to be unreliable.”  He wrote further, “In effect, he insulted one of the best and most effective people in Atlanta with his attack on Debi.”  (The Board of Ethics can determine the accuracy of that statement.)

Two sentences later, Horace Sibley, Chair of the Mayor’s Committee to End Homelessness, wrote the following to the sitting mayor, “The Task Force was ranked dead last against all other applicants for HUD funding which is why they are not getting public funding.” 

Sibley for years has unflaggingly spewed his venom against the Peachtree Pine and the 750 Black men who live there.  His gentlest name for those citizens is the “chronically homeless.”  As the chair of the mayor’s “commission” to end homelessness, he has lunched and met and planned and cajoled and emailed (before he “busted” his computer) and connived and caucased and lobbied to remove Peachtree Pine from Peachtree Street.  He joins the “sanitized zone” bunch to cleanse the corridor of poor Black people.  Sibley will never pay for those sins, not in this life.

I believe he “got to” the already shaky Outreach Committee at St. Philip’s Cathedral (Episcopal) in order to stop the funding from that house of faith.  I believe he arranged the Tom Bell, Brad Curry, A. J. Robinson conclave at the billion dollar Chic-fil-a compound to stop funding from that house of faith.  I believe he helped Debi Starnes rig the Tri-J “ranking team” in order to stop the funding from that house of faith.  Sibley will never pay for those sins, not in this life.

But Horace Sibley very well may have stepped out of his little safety zone.  With exceeding  joy I quote again his death knell prose.  Remember, he was writing as chair of the mayor’s “commission” to the sitting mayor herself: “The Task Force was ranked dead last against all other applicants for HUD which is why they are not getting public funds.”  The Tri-J records show that THREE dummy projects (place holders) were inserted in the list in order to bump the Task Force out of the running.  Did Starnes, the ethical one, not think that this would be revealed?  Did Lawyer Horace Sibley not dream that by now scathing reports would surface condemning the bogus “commission” that he headed for seven or so years?  Did Richard Orr not realize that his favorite PROJECT would come into the light of day?  What Sibley knows about tortious interference with HUD dollars may jump up and bite his crusty derriere.  He can wallow with his Episcopal pals all he wants; however, when it’s fed dollars, step back.  Horace Sibley may pay for these sins in this life.  So very many will hide and watch.

In a fortnight or less, I will tell what I know.  Horace Sibley and Debi Starnes and Rufus Terrill and Peggy Denby and Bruce Gunter and Richard Orr and A. J. Robinson and Milton Little and Jack Hardin and Brad Curry and Al Blackwelder and Kwanza Hall and Renee Glover and Nancy Boxill and Protip Bizwax and Vince Smith and Tom Bell and many other conspirators will know Sibley’s fate.  Ethical Debi will know.

Barack Obama is the President of the United States of America.  He promised change.  HUD is an acronym for his Department of Housing and Urban Development.  Local HUD offices over the land are the same lame, tame, tired, weak members they have always been, a la Atlanta. However, President Obama’s Washington HUD is a brand new game.

I hear rumblings in the distance; I see ominous clouds gathering on the horizon; I feel rain in the air.  GOD’S BURNING RAIN.

James Wilson Beaty, PhD
Jeremiah 22.16
April 30, 2010

Note:  The Starnes and Richard Orr controlled Tri-J Continuum of Care has all along believed that they answer to Starnes and CAP and ADID and Jack Hardin and Sam Williams.  A rude awakening will show that the money they have fraudulently withheld from homeless Black men, disabled homeless men, elderly homeless men and homeless veterans is HUD dollars.  RUMBLINGS!!!  Whatch you gon do when dey come for you?

“I was clearly misquoted in the ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION article.-Part I” Steven R. Katkowshy, M. D. April 2007

While watching coverage of the home going of Walter Cronkite, I heard words describing him as “the most trusted man in America,” “always told the truth,” “honest,” “compassionate,” “fair,” “funny,” “unbiased” and “Uncle Walter.” Cronkite possessed a passion to educate the public by reporting all the facts. I dedicate this piece to Walter Cronkite and to honest reporting. While pondering the life of this truth-loving news man, two opposites, with apologies to Conkrite, come to mind. Rhonda “the whole truth” Cook and Steve “weasel-like” Visser are employed by the ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION. A more accurate statement would be that Cook writes for Debi Starnes, the mayor’s advisor on homeless matters, Central Atlanta Progress and the Atlanta business community. Whenever she covers the Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, she has been directed, coached, told what to write by Debi Starnes and the Central Atlanta Brass.

The title of this article is a direct quote lifted from a memo to Fulton County Commissioner Emma I. Darnell. The Commissioner had read Rhonda Cook’s April 14, 2007 article entitled, “Homeless shelters warned of lice: Alleged source denies outbreak.” Darnell asked questions about the article; she smelled a city hall rat, so to speak.

The first sentence of Cook’s article reads, “The Fulton County Health Departmant issued a health advisory to Atlanta homeless shelters Friday because health officials say a privately run facility at Peachtree-Pine Streets is infested with lice.” Paragraph four paraphrases the county director and I quote what Cook published, “But Fulton County Health Department Director Steven Katkowsky said an infestation of lice was discovered at the task force shelter when his staff inspected the building at the request of Atlanta’s officials.” What Atlanta officials? Guess who is quoted several paragraphs later? Of course, Debi Starnes. Whenever a lie is written in the AJC, Starnes is not far behind. She’s everywhere! She’s everywhere! She reverses Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind.” If spring comes, can WINTER be far behind?

Several paragraphs later Starnes, it’s a miracle, is available for a statement, “There were about 100 facilities serving homeless people in the city. If others are infested it would create major problems. Right now it seems to be escalating at Peachtree and Pine. If it spreads everywhere, it’s a logistical nightmare and it’s a financial nightmare for these agencies.”

Moving from Starnes, Reporter Cook cites two men from the business community. Note the balanced, fair, never lopsided coverage that follows. Cook’s sources this time are Rufus “BumBot” Terrill and CAP’s president A. J. Robinson. Atlantans were made proud when the Stephen Colbert Report featured Terrill on national television. He had built a remote controlled robot (BumBot) whose main feature is to squirt water with some accuracy and force on “bums” who happen near it. Colbert listened as Terrill explained how he douses homeless “bums” who come near his Irish restaurant. Cook quotes Terrill, “We’re trying to build up business and have conventions come here, but if you have . . . a body lice infestation and it goes into hotels, that’s a disaster.”

With adroit acumen the Central Atlanta Progress president matches Terrill’s brilliance, “The businesses in the Peachtree-Pine Street area have long thought the shelter was a problem, more so than other shelters in the city. The issue {lice} is symptomatic of a much bigger issue with the operation. Somebody needs to have responsibly (sic) for health-related issues in this shelter. It’s not the city. It’s not Fulton County. We’re all kind of mystified.” Just a note of cruel contradiction: I find it alarming that A. J. “we’re all kind of mystified” Robinson speaks concern for health issues at Peachtree-Pine while at the same time leads the parade to shut off water, an absolute necessity for healthy conditions. So much for Cronkite-like reporting, Rhonda “the whole truth” Cook.

(This ends Part I; the conclusion revealing Dr. Katkowsky’s refutation of this Rhonda Cook propaganda will be posted Monday, July 20, 2009. Stay tuned)