Doug Matthews

Current fire chief for lamar county, who is primarily responsible for the majority of difficulties forced on our family.

Douglas Randall Matthews  

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Our family has known Chief Matthews’ Mother from her time attending the local methodist church. Her son, Doug entered the scene when their family purchased land that was subdivided and sold to them by their relative Brian Alex Abernathy. Growing up with Chief Matthews, we didn’t have any hard feelings toward him. In fact, in highschool, during his first year of marching band, and we even tried to look out for him. Not that he needed it, or we were able to help in any way, but there was a desire to try to like him.

Glare  

Then one day while talking to classmates in the hallways of Gordon College, and completely out of the blue, we noticed Doug was there. A few moments later we caught him staring right at us, glaring with discontent and disgust. It was evident what he thought of us, because it was written all over his face. We remember thinking to ourself, “Shame on you, you have no reason to do that.” The event made a deep impression on us as the body language was unmistakable, and we are pretty sure the glare was not intended to be noticed. It was from that day forward we began to look at him with caution, and noticed how the shine of being the golden child of the community started to wear off.

Property Involvement  

Since the appearance of donut tire tracks in our front yard during 2019, Doug has been the primary antagonist in the lives of our family and our home. He was the primary instigator in the development of the property that faces our home. Property which Doug violated state Law by brokering himself without ownership or licensing in order to purchase a different property for himself at a reduced price from the same owner. This is clearly illegal and crooked, but is only punished with a $500 fine in the state of Georgia, and is not worth the paperwork or energy to file a complaint on. Doug was fully aware of our family’s need to purchase the property to sustain our way of life, to make our own farm productive, and to sustain the legacy of our grandfather. Five attempts were made to contact the owner of the property, who our family has known and remained on good terms with since 1971, but uncustomary of our exchanges, these went attempts went unanswered. Yet, Doug admitted to being fully aware of our attempts and the contents of those letters. Which was private communications in regards to business matters. We were able to make contact with the oldest son of the property owner, who was unaware of our attempts to communicate with his father. Which leads one to concluding that somehow Doug’s involvement in affair as illegal broker, is connected to the reason why our letters were not replied to, and our family opportunity to purchase that property was denied. Also as a result of his involvement in the affair, all of a sudden we are no longer on good terms with the family of someone we have known since before I was born. We welcomed their father into the neighborhood and offered him friendship and good neighbors for over 45 years, to have Doug walk in, and then they turn around and throw all those years and us too under a bus.

Known Smear Pusher  

It is pretty evident Doug is participating in a smear campaign, because anytime we have been introduced to an associate of his, we have continually found ourselves being treated like absolute trash by someone we have never met for no reason whatsoever. His involvement inciting the individual to hate or violence is fairly obvious to see, and only serves to discredit his own integrity.

Fabricator of Allegations  

He is also connected with the fabricated allegations of elder abuse against our family member, which would constitute an abuse of his office as fire chief to influence law enforcement to raide our house. His former wife knew about it in advance, and drove by the house to observe it occurring. Not once, but twice. Then had the gall to intimate he knew the details of the raid in conversation.

Documented acts of harassment  

He must fashion himself as a bully, who is justified in pushing people around. On one occasion he has driven to our house, didn’t even have the courtesy to knock, and screamed his head off for us to come out. We were in the yard of the property next door, and could hear what was occurring. When we returned to the house, we found a pair of tire tracks where Chief Matthews had spun out on our front yard. He has also stopped in front of our house and screamed out, “I am watching you!”, while we were inside at work.

Protected by the County  

We have filed numerous complaints against Chief Matthews with both the county administrator, Sean Townson, and the Chairman of the County Commissioners, Ryran Traylor. Both are completely aware of all the above. Ryran ignores 99.8% of our attempts to contact him and does nothing. Sean, granted is more proactive, he has the courtesy to inform us of his intent to ignore every complaint made by our family regardless of evidence or act performed. This violates county law, but at least we know he has a pulse.

If you want to know the individual primarily responsible for the harassment of our family and the destruction of our home, look no further than Lamar County’s Crooked Fire Chief, Doug.

More topics to cover:

• Chief Matthews allows county’s FCC license to expire.
• Photos of Chief Matthews stealing time from the county.
• Investigation into illegal equipment usage.
• Refusal to perform duties assigned to his office.
• Involvement in Detainment.
• Misrepresenting the facts of his refusal to assist.