{"id":15289,"date":"2020-02-27T10:03:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T15:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=15289"},"modified":"2020-02-27T10:03:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T15:03:37","slug":"ajc-gwinnett-commissioners-drop-ethics-complaint-against-marlene-fosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2020\/02\/27\/ajc-gwinnett-commissioners-drop-ethics-complaint-against-marlene-fosque\/","title":{"rendered":"AJC: Gwinnett commissioners drop ethics complaint against Marlene Fosque"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image: AJC<\/p><\/div>\n

February 26, 2020<\/p>\n

Gwinnett commissioners drop ethics complaint against Marlene Fosque<\/p>\n

Gwinnett County commissioners have dropped an ethics complaint filed last summer against Commissioner Marlene Fosque.<\/p>\n

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Gwinnett County Commissioner Marlene Fosque. Image Gwinnett County website<\/p><\/div>\n

The Wednesday decision came after the county\u2019s ethics board recommended last month that Fosque receive a written warning for what it said were violations of county policy.<\/p>\n

The board upheld two of six ethics complaints against Fosque made last summer by D.A. King, an anti-illegal immigration activist who complained after Fosque called him \u201csomeone known for spewing hatred and bigotry and racism.\u201d\u201cIt is a very difficult thing that we have in front of us tonight,\u201d Commission Chairman Charlotte Nash told more than 50 people gathered in Lawrenceville for a public hearing, before making a motion not to take action on the ethics board\u2019s recommended punishment. \u201cI believe Commissioner Fosque learned something about how things work in the political world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nash\u2019s statement garnered applause and Fosque, who recused herself from the board and sat in the audience for the public hearing, said she thought it was \u201ca great decision, of course.\u201dFosque said in renouncing King, she thought it was important to make sure all the county\u2019s residents felt welcomed by her after controversy surrounded his participation in a panel discussion she organized.\u201cI will always create a space for people of all walks of life,\u201d Fosque said.<\/p>\n

More than 20 people spoke Wednesday in support of Fosque, while seven came to the microphone to say they thought she should be punished. Fosque said she was \u201cpleasantly pleased\u201d by the level of support. Resident after resident commended her for her integrity and bravery in speaking up against King. Her supporters included Sen. Sheikh Rahman, D-Lawrenceville, a Bangladeshi immigrant and the state\u2019s first Muslim elected official in the General Assembly and Rep. Brenda Lopez Romero, D-Norcross, who said after spending 12 years as an undocumented immigrant, she wanted to support Fosque for speaking on behalf of those who were most marginalized.<\/p>\n

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February 26, 2020 Gwinnett commissioners drop ethics complaint against Marlene Fosque Gwinnett County commissioners have dropped an ethics complaint filed last summer against Commissioner Marlene Fosque. The Wednesday decision came after the county\u2019s ethics board recommended last month that Fosque receive a written warning for what it said were violations of county policy. The board […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15294,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15289\/revisions\/15294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}