It says here that the former

mayor of Peachtree City has sworn out arrest warrants for the current

mayor of Peachtree City.

Bob Lenox with an animosity

worthy of Captain Ahab riding the white whale into the depths spits, "To

the last I grapple with thee.From the heart of hell (translation: out

of office and out of power), I stab at thee.For hate's sake, I spit my

last breath at thee!" and charges Steve Brown with criminal theft

of services. A hearing on the charges is set for later this week in magistrate

court.

Lenox earlier this year filed

ethics charges against another City Council member, Steve Rapson. With

his unprecedented resort to criminal charges, it seems now that, like

old Captain Ahab, Lenox is an obsessed man, and he has made the man who

replaced him the object of his wrath.

What dastardly deed did Brown

do to incur this monumental retribution? Here's what Brown says.

"On 24 July, 2002, I had

to attend an 8:30 a.m. meeting with the County Commission on Local Option

Sales Tax (LOST). Thirty minutes later, my 6-year-old daughter was scheduled

to go to golf camp at Braelinn. My wife was out of the city in a training

session. Since my daughter is only 6, I felt uncomfortable leaving her

at the golf course an hour before the camp.

"My assistant at City

Hall volunteered to take Natalie to the camp. This was a relief to me.

Prior to my leaving for the LOST meeting or my assistant leaving with

my daughter, both the City Manager and the City Clerk had a private discussion

and determined that if my assistant took my daughter without declaring

it her break time, it would be an ethics violation.

"Unfortunately, even though

ample time was available, neither the City Manager nor the City Clerk

discussed the matter with me or (to my knowledge) my assistant prior to

our leaving City Hall. It needs to be noted that the City Manager was

also in attendance at the LOST meeting.

"AFTER the LOST meeting,

the City Manager brought this matter to my attention. I immediately went

to get my daughter from golf camp and dropped her off at Primrose School.

Once I got