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Bad check funds falling (DA Mourns Lack of Bad Checks!)
Montgomery (Alabama) Advertiser ^ | 30 September, 2003 | Marty Roney

Posted on 09/30/2003 7:38:53 AM PDT by TankerKC

Edited on 05/07/2004 5:12:19 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

WETUMPKA -- District Attorney Randall Houston can't bank on one of his largest funding sources to help make up for an expected 10 percent cut in state funding for the upcoming budget year.

Budget cuts and the growing trend of more people using debit and checking account cards are threatening to cut deeply into the money Houston's Worthless Check Unit brings into the 19th Judicial Circuit district attorney's office. Last year, the unit accounted for more than a third of the office's budget.


(Excerpt) Read more at montgomeryadvertiser.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: badcheck; budget; montgomery
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To: Orangedog
They MUST NOT solve the problems they are tasked with solving.

This story certainly confirms that.

21 posted on 09/30/2003 4:59:24 PM PDT by TankerKC (Wow! I guess I hit a nerve.)
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To: Orangedog
Don't worry about the District Attorneys losing money. There is enough Federal money floating around that they can more than make up for any shortfall. I especially have no sympathy for Ellen Brooks. The Montgomery County DA has the task of prosecuting corruption in state government, and Ellen Brooks was invisible during the Siegleman years, in spite of everything that was going on.
As for drug cases, I saw a newspaper article a few days ago that stated that drug busts were way up in Autauga and Elmore counties. That makes sense when you consider asset forefiture and budget shortfalls. Bust a few druggies who were driving expensive SUVs when they were caught and you pretty much make up that shortfall.
22 posted on 09/30/2003 8:38:45 PM PDT by yawningotter
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To: yawningotter; Orangedog; Coop; patton; JRandomFreeper; southland; E. Pluribus Unum; apillar; ...
Prosecutors need 'bounce' in revenue

More silliness. It looks like the editorial board of our local rag is trying to justify the previous day’s article.

23 posted on 10/01/2003 4:28:04 AM PDT by TankerKC (Wow! I guess I hit a nerve.)
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To: TankerKC
Interesting that the editor uses the term "tenuous funding sources" as if it were in the original article. It isn't in there!
24 posted on 10/01/2003 4:31:09 AM PDT by TankerKC (Wow! I guess I hit a nerve.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
As an added bonus, you get to send in SWAT teams to kick in their doors and slap them around.

Not true, as an added bonus you get to send in SWAT teams to kick in their doors and kill them. Glory days for Hourichi and Braga types

25 posted on 10/01/2003 4:31:33 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy, and Bush is no conservative)
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To: TankerKC
""If the use of these cards continues, a major funding source for district attorneys' offices will dry up," Houston said. "It puts this office in a very tough spot. We are already a lean operation. Our business is based on how active the criminal element is. We really can't cut services or overhead, so we have to find more funding sources."

I hate to even consider what they might come up with.

If the Bad Check Unit no longer has bad check writers to catch.... why does it need to exist?

26 posted on 10/01/2003 7:00:37 AM PDT by sweet_diane ("Will I dance for you Jesus? Or in awe of you be still? I can only imagine..I can only imagine.")
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To: sweet_diane; yawningotter; Orangedog; Coop; patton; JRandomFreeper; southland; E. Pluribus Unum; ...
Letters to the Editor Follow-up Bump

See if you can find TankerKC in there!

27 posted on 10/02/2003 8:59:56 AM PDT by TankerKC (Wow! I guess I hit a nerve.)
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To: TankerKC
I don't know which one you are, but I'd like to throttle this punk, John Burgess.

A reader from Grady decried how we are now a nation ruled by the judiciary. I have to agree. Were it not for five miscreants in black robes, George W. Bush would be shoveling manure at his Crawford ranch instead of shoveling it at the White House.

28 posted on 10/02/2003 11:40:18 AM PDT by Coop (God bless our troops!)
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To: Coop
Yeah. There are some real freaks around here. The editorial staff at the Advertiser is VERY left leaning.
29 posted on 10/02/2003 11:42:24 AM PDT by TankerKC (Wow! I guess I hit a nerve.)
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To: southland
The police system certainly is basically a mafia shakedown organization at this point. Pretty sad.
30 posted on 10/02/2003 11:46:22 AM PDT by Monty22
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To: TankerKC
Then they probably won't print my Letter to the Editor response. :-) Let's see if I can recall it from memory.

Speaking of shovelling manure (Letter to Editor, 2 Oct), I suggest Mr. Burgess of Montgomery learn to count. Seven - not five - Supreme Court justices prevented Mr. Gore from overturning written Florida election law and stealing an election. But perhaps Mr. Burgess focused on creative writing rather than math during his public education.

31 posted on 10/02/2003 11:48:00 AM PDT by Coop (God bless our troops!)
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To: Coop
They may print it, with some "special" editing. The kind that turns your point around or makes you look like a kook. Believe me, I've had it done!
32 posted on 10/02/2003 11:56:28 AM PDT by TankerKC (Wow! I guess I hit a nerve.)
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To: HURRICANE FORCE
What's an 8-track? ;)
34 posted on 10/02/2003 12:21:43 PM PDT by TankerKC (Wow! I guess I hit a nerve.)
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