The campaign of Deal's opponent in the race for governor, Karen Handel, used the news to suggest that Deal -- already the subject of a congressional ethics investigation -- was also the target of a criminal probe. Deal denied that and went on to win the runoff and the fall election.
Now nearly two years later, Deal has named the federal prosecutor who signed the grand jury subpoena to a judgeship. In February, Deal appointed Robert McBurney, then head of the the public corruption unit in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Atlanta, to a vacant seat in Fulton County Superior Court.
And then the problem for Deal went away...
Do your damn job, Bob, or stand down.
This involves eyewitness affidavits say while recounting 150,000 Georgia mail ins, uncreased and obv machine marked ballots were included-
a lower court threw it out saying voters had no standing-that was overturned on appeal-
now the latest judge is refusing to act.