Join the call for Commissioner Derek Good to Resign!
On June 30th the Ledger News contacted Commissioner Derek Good regarding falsehoods about his military and educational background used in his campaigns over the last 10 years.
Good confessed that he had not been entirely truthful. Good said, “It was a lie of omission”.
Derek Good then went to the elections office and withdrew from the race for re-election to Post 4 County Commissioner.
False Statements made by Derek Good
FALSE Attended Army Ranger School
FALSE Graduated from Army Ranger School – 1987
FALSE I am a former Army Airborne Ranger
FALSE B.B.A California Coast University
FALSE BS Business Administration, Purdue University
FALSE Business Degree, Maryland University
The lies told by Derek Good are not minor embellishments. He has dishonored every person who has served our country as an Army Ranger. He has mocked every person that worked hard to earn their degree by falsely claiming to have earned 3 university degrees. Derek Good has brought shame to the office he holds with his disgraceful lies.
If Derek Good told an employer the lies he stated in his campaigns, he would have been fired immediately.
Commissioner Derek Good has been posted to the Hall of Stolen Valor http://militarytimes.com/projects/hallofstolenvalor/ and Phonies and Wannabe’s list on POW Network. http://www.pownetwork.org/phonies/phonies685.htm
Good could and should be prosecuted under the Stolen Valor Act for his many false claims that he graduated Army Ranger School and that he was an Army Ranger.
Commissioner Derek Good Refuses to Resign
During the County Commission Meetings held on July 6th, July 20th, and August 3rd Veterans and Cherokee County residents have called for Commissioner Good to resign. The Cherokee Coalition for Responsible Growth (CCRG) presented the commissioners with a petition signed by 205 residents calling for Commissioner Good to resign during the August 3rd Commission Meeting.
Derek Good adamantly refuses to resign. He has stated on numerous occasions to the media that he will not resign because that would leave the residents of Post 4 without representation. THAT IS ONE MORE FALSE STATEMENT! According to Cherokee County municode Article 1, Board of Commissioners/ Section 5 –Vacancies; If Commissioner Good resigns, the remaining members of the commission shall make an appointment to fill the vacancy.
Why should you be concerned?
In Good’s first term of four years on the commission, he approved 12,163 new homes. He voted against the Land Use Plan 93 times out of 112 votes, or 83%.
He accepted many campaign contributions from developers that he gave his rubber stamp of approval for their projects. Ethics charges were filed on Good when he first took office for accepting donations from a developer over the legal limit and he failed to disclose that information until after the election. He admitted to plagiarism in his 2002 campaign. In 2006 He accepted 5 times the legal limit for contributions for donations from the Macauley Company and their employees. He recently lead the decision to remove the county objection to the Woodstock/Hennessy Honda annexation and rezoning request which paved the way for the Woodstock City Council to annex three residential properties from an established neighborhood and re-zone those homes to commercial for a dealership car storage lot.
If Derek Good could tell such serious lies to get elected; how can we trust anything he has done or will do if he is able to remain in office?
Why should Commissioner Good get to decide that he can continue to make decisions and pocket our tax dollars with his salary, benefits and pension?
What You Can Do to Help
1. Download and Sign the Attached Petition. Please print your name and address and sign it. Please have all members of your family, 18 years of age or older, sign this. We need to have all signed petitions returned to us by early afternoon on Tuesday, August 17th so we can deliver them to the Board of Commissioners Meeting.
To Scan & Email: ccrg@tds.net or Fax to: 770-735-1774
Or mail to: CCRG, 6175 Hickory Flat Hwy., Suite 110-324, Canton, GA 30115
2. If you have comments regarding the actions of Derek Good please write our commissioners.
lbahrens@cherokeega.com, hjohnston@cherokeega.com, jhubbard@cherokeega.com, kbosch@cherokeega.com, dvgood@cherokeega.com
3. Please let our local news media know your thoughts.
The Cherokee Ledger News, Erika Neldner editor@ledgernews.com
The Cherokee Tribune, Barbara Jacoby bjacoby@cherokeetribune.com
4. PLEASE plan to attend the BOC meeting at 6:00 pm on Tuesday, August 17th.
Cherokee County Administration Building located at 1130 Bluffs Pkwy, Canton
Thank you for your support. We can keep Cherokee County a great place to live if we all work together.