This plan could not have been

hatched by them, but it would have had to be someone in a powerful position

in our local government and it was.

The man who is arguably the

most powerful unelected public figure in Fayette County's modern

history is Bill McNally of McNally, Fox and Cameron. He has been the county's

attorney for more than 20 years and no one ever voted for him. He affects

every major decision the commission makes and the voters have no say in

the position he holds.

His involvement in the marshal

matter was stealthful but highly significant. In 1989 he was asked to

fine-tune a local ordinance which created local marshals to enforce county

ordinances. The commissioners wanted the marshals to be armed and in uniform

to perform their duties, which is a perfectly legal function of marshals

in Georgia.

What happened next is, at the

least, suspicious, and at its worst, a conspiracy to deceive Fayette County

taxpayers.

When the ordinance to arm the

marshals was rewritten in 1989, someone mysteriously failed to use Georgia's

code section for providing powers to marshals. Someone instead used the

code section for creating county police. For 15 years the public has been

left in the dark about the fact that this was ever done.

That was 1989. In 2004 a county

commission consisting of five totally different people are claiming this

was done so that they could, today, claim that agency to be a county police

department. A department that we as voters today would be allowed to vote

on before it was created, but because of what someone did in 1989 the

voters are being denied that right today.

None of the sitting commissioners

was in office when this was done. The only constant person involved in

the situation that had the knowledge and the power to pull this straw

from its hat 15 years later is the man that wrote the ordinance, County

Attorney Bill McNally. He is the only man in the county government who

has been involved long enough to successfully perpetuate this conspiracy.

A new agency is being created

using an old county ordinance that can only be traced