Posted on 12/29/2022 2:00:17 AM PST by blueplum
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - A controversial law allowing superior court clerks to personally pocket money when processing passports could draw new scrutiny in next year’s General Assembly.
“Concerned would be a mild word to use,” state Sen. Kay Kirkpatrick (R-Marietta) said....
....An Atlanta News First Investigation uncovered in 2021 alone, Cobb Superior Court Clerk Connie Taylor raked in more than $220,000, while Fulton Superior Court Clerk Cathelene “Tina” Robinson pocketed more than $360,000 in passport processing fees. Those fees are in addition to their yearly salaries.
All of this is completely legal but it comes as a big surprise to taxpayers....
(Excerpt) Read more at atlantanewsfirst.com ...
Must be a “Georgia thing”....but there are Post Office and other Passport Application locations in GA:
Locations:
https://iafdb.travel.state.gov/DefaultForm.aspx
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/need-passport/apply-in-person.html
Things must have changed since I got my 1st U.S. Passport (years & years ago at a P.O. Passport Office)(just paid the new/initial passport fee)....the State Dept. now has a $35. “Acceptance Facility” fee...I guess the GA court clerks get most or all of the “Acceptance Facility” fee?!?....shouldn’t GA state taxpayers get some of it? Or use it to offset GA court budgets/salaries? Strange.
Passports fees:
https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/passports/forms-fees/Passport%20Fees%20Chart_TSG_JAN%202022.pdf
(Just “renewals” for me since then)
It’s a black thing, you wouldn’t understand. “Fulton Superior Court Clerk Cathelene “Tina” Robinson pocketed more than $360,000 in passport processing fees”.
Here are her photos>>>>
She’s one happy camper!
Sounds like she gets the $35 fee even when someone else does the work. That's 40 passports every day.
Surprise! Thieves gravitate to government because government dorces people to do things inser threat of force and creates so many opportunities for graft.
It’s where the money is
Surprise, surprise, surprise.
Good God. Is there a single politician in Georgia, black, white, or green, who is not corrupt to the core?
Or are they they only ones stupid or arrogant enough to not even bother covering their tracks?
Corruption seems to be an endemic entitlement across all boundaries, but the Left, especially in Georgia, seems to be more egregiously corrupt and arrogant than officals of any stripe anywhere.
This is one reason I think it is going to be so hard to free our country from the clutches of the Deep State-I think with very few exceptions, all of them are on the gravy train and don’t wish to upset the apple cart.
“Tina”
Reparations.
One way or another.
all of them are on the gravy train and don’t wish to upset the apple cart.
= = =
I agree.
And I submit this as a “Mixed Metaphor”. I love it.
Hahahahaha...no! I think a mixed metaphor would have been:
“all of them are on the gravy cart and don’t wish to upset the apple train!”
“An Atlanta News First Investigation uncovered in 2021 alone, Cobb Superior Court Clerk Connie Taylor raked in more than $220,000, while Fulton Superior Court Clerk Cathelene “Tina” Robinson pocketed more than $360,000 in passport processing fees. Those fees are in addition to their yearly salaries.”
Boy, did I ever go into the wrong profession...
“She’s one happy camper!”
Tina hit the ghetto lottery, KA-CHING!
Would it be racist of me to suspect that Patty Baker, the clerk who puts $10 in a Clerk Support Fund for parties, lunches, gift cards, etc., might be of a lighter persuasion than the others?
Probably.
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