Don’t suppose it occurred to you that that volunteer was told to quit helping through back channels?
The local congressman’s wife is on the city council.
Something smells and it’s not the chicken shit.
You obviously don't know the volunteer in question. Roy Barnes can be a real PITA, and I'm not particularly fond of him, but nobody tells him what to do. Not even Tom Price's wife. Maybe particularly not Tom Price's wife, because Price and Barnes are at opposite ends of local politics.
Tom Price is my congressman. He's very conservative, very responsive to his constituents, and the idea that he or his wife would be involved in a conspiracy to do to death a Roswell resident over chickens - or zoning - is just completely laughable.
A much more likely scenario is that this unfortunate man refused to take Barnes's advice, which would not sit well with Barnes.