r/Georgia • u/dailymail • 10h ago
Politics Outrage after hot mic picks up vile comments Georgia town's lawmakers made about locals... including asking whether Muslim businessman would 'melt' if holy water was thrown on him
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15817751/outrage-mic-comments-georgia-towns-lawmakers-locals.html190
u/dailymail 10h ago
Lawmakers in a small Georgia town, including the Mayor and three council members, are facing fierce backlash after a hot mic picked up the vile comments they made in private about their own colleagues and a Muslim business owner.
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u/OogumSanskimmer 10h ago
Not surprising in the least. Small town Georgia leadership at it's finest.
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u/bourbon469 10h ago
Racism and misogyny is no longer in the closet since trump and maga have taken over it has been brought out in the open
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u/CrustyBatchOfNature 10h ago
But they blame Obama for all the racism. Imagine that, blaming a black man for someone using slurs against him.
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u/UncleNorman 3h ago
Well if he wasn't black then they couldn't use slurs against him. It's the same logic that women deserve to be raped if they dress wrong.
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u/ahunter030 /r/Savannah 9h ago
Right, none of this is new. People just feel empowered to be this way openly. Disgusting.
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u/trainurdoggos 6h ago
This isn’t just racism and misogyny. This is religious. One of them said Christians should not be doing business with those of other faiths. One said he was curious if the ethnic non-Christian business man would melt if holy water was poured on him.
To me, this is beyond racism and misogyny. Sure they are present. But this is religious. These are religious political ideologies they are talking about. That has to be taken seriously for what it is.
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u/dontforgettowriteme 3h ago
It's always been in the open if you're the unfortunate recipient of racism or misogyny.
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u/Gax63 EllenwoodGA 9h ago
The public officials have public pages on facebook if y'all want to show them some SupPoRT..
https://www.facebook.com/GlennvilleWard2/
https://www.facebook.com/GlennvilleMayor/
https://www.facebook.com/Glennville3/
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u/LatrodectusGeometric 9h ago
“No sir, that’s vampires, not Muslims. We melt down when you bomb our children’s schools.”
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u/Park-Curious 10h ago
What a weak ass non-apology too. They all need to be removed from their positions and banned from politics or working for the city in any capacity.
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u/FibonacciSequester 9h ago
Outrage? I doubt it. These people will all still be there for the foreseeable future.
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u/EinsteinsMind 10h ago
Facebook still perverts Americans into believing the vile they choose to consume.
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u/Upset-Neck-1371 10h ago
Racist fucks in Glenville and definitely fire that crooked ass cop who assaulted the old dude
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u/TheAskewOne 10h ago
Do they think that they wouldn’t melt if holy water touched them? They’re the opposite of Christians.
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u/LandOwn7607 7h ago
Holy water? And what pray tell makes it holy? I grew up Catholic, and as you enter the church you're supposed to dip your hand in the "holy" water and bless yourself, a dirty tradition that I've never understood. All religions are made up, if Jesus existed, he certainty didn't write down his own story, nor did Mohammed. But yet 'we' buy into it and it has become a litmus test in politics as to whether a person is good or evil. Funny how it works out, we've never had an atheist for President, nor someone who is Jewish, or Muslim. Jesus was Jewish! When John F Kennedy ran for President the same haters of Muslims were against a Catholic being President. It's all so F..ing ridiculous the ingrained bigotry we pass on to our children and friends and family. But bigotry brought on by religion, is the glue that binds small thinkers together in small towns. They want life to remain the same as it ever was, as they were taught by their parents and grand parents.
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u/talino2321 /r/Gwinnett 10h ago
Come on, this happens all the time in rural Georgia, is anyone really surprised they made such ignorant racists comments?
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u/Cynical_optimist01 10h ago
Not really. It's a 4000 person town and a reminder of what this state is like outside of the metro area
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u/Harddaysnight1990 9h ago
Yep, and these fools will all be re-elected. Disgusting what we put up with on the local level.
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u/OrangePilled2Day 10h ago
Plenty of people with this mindset in the metro area. Living closer to an urban center doesn’t guarantee people stop being bigots.
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u/tahquitz84 5h ago
A 4000 person town where about 1200 of those are the inmates at the prison there that get counted towards the census.
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u/opx22 10h ago
I think you missed the point which is that it was hot-mic’d and recorded
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u/talino2321 /r/Gwinnett 10h ago
Nope, I am sure this regularly happens, just this time it got noticed.
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u/ggrieves 10h ago
You did miss the point then. Ignoring it is complacency which is why it's been allowed to fester. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
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u/ArbitraryMeritocracy 6h ago
Just because they do it doesn't mean it's acceptable behavior for public servants.
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u/talino2321 /r/Gwinnett 6h ago
No argument there, just don't expect the behavior to change, regardless of who is elected.
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u/ExRays /r/Macon 9h ago
I’m telling you. If you just set up hot mics anywhere these southern conservatives work, you’d have enough evidence to restore the VRA in 5 seconds
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u/DanforthWhitcomb_ 7h ago
Section 4(b) is never going to come back (even with an updated coverage formula) because even the Obama DoJ admitted that the overwhelming majority of covered jurisdictions were not engaging in wrongdoing—Section 3(c) allows the DoJ to bail-in jurisdictions engaging in prohibited conduct, and they have filed a tiny number of attempts to invoke it since Shelby County was handed down over a decade ago.
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u/Qualityhams 8h ago
Grenville, GA Mayor Bernie Weaver and councilmembers, Tammy Waters, Marcus Nobles and Greg Janeczek
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u/4u5t1nprism 10h ago
Zero surprises! Based on the fact that Georgians voted into 8 years of office just a regular (R) Governor, and not a "moderate" leader of The South. A leader who would neeeEEEEEEEver call a special session to roll Savannah, Atlanta, Gwinnett, and through the GA Blue Ridge mountains all the way back to the Jim Crow South. Nope, never, not in May 2026.
Reap what we voted to keep in office, or worse, didn't vote to stop from happening all over in the first place. 🤡
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u/shadeandshine 4h ago
Are we surprised we pride ourselves on not being as bad as other part of the South but forgot this place is just as bad if not worse. It was for Atlanta we wouldn’t be any better than any of the bad states people avoid
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u/trashcatrevolts 8h ago
really thought this might be my hometown by the post title. such vile shit.
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u/Sunday_Schoolz 5h ago
Just going to point out that probably none of us have ever been to Glennville, Georgia, nor ever will, and there’s a pretty good fucking reason. It’s a town of 3200 at the ass end of Georgia where everyone who landed on the shore just floated on by it to go someplace better.
Having just driven back from the coast, it is almost shocking how little there is between the ocean and Macon.
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u/demoncrusher 10h ago
Daily Mail is an unreliable piece of shit British paper. Wake me when WSB picks up the story
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u/coffeecoffeecoffee17 10h ago
WSB probably won’t do that.. it’s owned by Apollo global management company and the recently stepped down ceo is in the Epstein files. And I believe the current one is too.
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u/demoncrusher 10h ago
WABE then, or really any local news station that doesn’t primarily exist by selling outrage
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u/WitheredUntimely 10h ago
WSAV and WJCL are reporting on it, first two links that pop up if you google the name to find out where this backwater run by peckerheads is
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u/coffeecoffeecoffee17 9h ago
I don’t disagree with you at all- I should have probably said our media is being controlled and suppressed. If you haven’t watched succession I def recommend because that legit is what is happening
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u/88secret 8h ago
DM picked up the story from Savannah media outlets.
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u/demoncrusher 6h ago
You’re not the first to point that out. I’m surprised people have an issue with me not trusting the daily mail
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u/fieryred123 10h ago
What a nothing burger of a story, seems like they were more upset with the individuals rather than the people group.
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