Representative Camp
Letters sent to Georgia Assembly Representative Beth Camp
We have written Representative Beth Camp two to three times regarding the local corruption witnessed. Due to her connection with Agriculture and nearby place of origin, we thought she of all would understand the gross travesty that has been done to our family. We have not received any official response from her. Although, not long after our second letter a piece about her appeared in the paper. The article discussed her dedication to Georgia’s solar power industry.
Representative Camp, We live in Barnesville, Georgia and are aware there is little anyone can do to help our situation, but felt as our representative to the Georgia General Assembly for the people of our district, you needed to be aware of what is happening to our family. It is a great travesty of justice, for which I am duty bound to correct in order to prevent it from happening to another individual. As of this moment, there is a minimum of $736,000 in state and local violations performed by two developers on two pieces of property that surround our home. The home is still held within my Grandmother’s estate, so until the estate is settled, we lack standing to initiate any legal action. Therefore, we are completely reliant on the county to fulfill its duty and obligation to uphold the laws of the state of Georgia. Unfortunately, the county has formally refused to enforce both Georgia and county law, basically saying ‘we are going to do what we want, and you can’t do anything about it.’
What makes this refusal so unethical, if not illegal, is there is no dispute over matters of fact. The county openly admits the developers are in violation of state and county law, and the developers themselves have admitted to possessing knowledge of their violations. The county is fully aware the Zoning Administrator aided in the continual violation of the law, misled local citizens, and openly discriminated against unfavored residents. Yet, they refuse to hold her accountable for anything. The county is aware the Fire Chief initiated the entire ordeal by illegally brokering real estate without a license in a real estate sale where a fellow firefighter was given preferential treatment Both the Chief and the firefighter greatly personally benefited from the aforementioned illegally conducted sale, both purchasing their properties for hundreds of thousands less than market value estimates.
Now the family of that fellow firefighter is building a subdivision that began construction without any of the required permitting. They openly stalk and try to intimidate members of my family, have vandalized our property several times, and even stolen our mailbox the day before Christmas Eve with our W-2 forms inside. Last weekend they even tried to bait us into acting out, and either had deputies from the sheriff department on hold or called them preemptively. We have contacted the Magistrate court for a protection order several times, and are informed they do not provide them, we are then redirected to a service provided by a sheriff in another county. Who informs us, because they are our neighbors it would be practically impossible to acquire one. Then they suggest exactly what the antagonists want, and that is for our family to abandon the farm we have lived on since 1965. Further compounding this is the Fire Chief has used his influence with local law enforcement to make things difficult for us.
I myself was detained in the county jail for forty eight hours for speaking out about this. I was never told what I was being detained for, nor was I told I was being detained. I was placed in solitary confinement for six hours upon entering the jail, I was kept beyond the legally allowed limit, strip searched, and denied medication for a chronic illness I have had for over a decade. Once released I discovered the police report was a complete fabrication and the sheriff department refused to investigate what was a federal offense. We have been shouted at, cursed out, shot at, our wells were drained, and our property destroyed. Now, we stand to lose the only home we have known.
All of this is being done to us, because we publicly opposed a plan for the Fire Chief’s relative to build a sixty acre solar power plant down the road from our family’s farm. The solar plant was railroaded through approval by the county commissioners, and didn’t even have the public notices posted as required by law. In the end, our opposition had nothing to do with the plan falling apart, as its fate was sealed by presidential order stopping importation of solar panels from china. Yet we are being persecuted for exercising our constitutional right.
We have tried to keep all of this documented and collected evidence. We have contacted the local county news organizations, and received no response. We have contacted over twenty five attorneys, and only received three unproductive responses. We don’t know what is going to happen to us, or where to go next. We just ask if you could say a few prayers for us, and do whatever you can to make sure this does not happen to someone else like us again.
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Second letter has not been retrieved yet from the email server.