Except for a brief period, Albany Herald Editor Carlton Fletcher has been a newspaperman, working as Sports Writer/Columnist for the weekly Ocilla Star, as Sports Writer/Sports Editor with The Tifton Gazette, and as Sports Writer/Copy Editor/News Reporter/Features Editor and Editor of the paper. He has won numerous awards for sports, news, business and column writing, including a first-place Business Writing award in last year’s Georgia Press Association awards competition.
When we elect individuals based solely on party affiliation, church membership, skin color, empty campaign promises that are impossible to keep, or because some other highly placed politician told us to, we’re bringing the decline of government at all levels on ourselves.
The Braves have, of late, held onto first place by the skin of their teeth despite losing series to good teams (the Brewers), mediocre teams (the Twins and Diamondbacks) and really bad teams (the Mets).
Watch a little deeper than the surface the actions of certain individuals in Lee County, and you’ll have no problem figuring why the once-thriving county to the north of Albany is one of the few Republican enclaves in the region.