Vernon Jones: A Primer

An oldie but a goodie.

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You don’t need to read through the reports to know that Jones is a man with personal issues that will hang over any campaign he runs. As has been well reported in the media, Jones has been accused of pointing a pistol at a woman and of physically shoving a female county commissioner. DeKalb police looked into a complaint filed by a Lithonia woman who said Jones sexually assaulted her when she visited his home in December 2004 (the investigation was dropped when the district attorney said Jones’ accuser “wanted to avoid further trauma to herself and her family”).

And we haven’t even started talking about the federal lawsuit that accuses Jones of trying to force out white county employees so that he could replace them with a “darker administration” in DeKalb, or the hundreds of thousands of dollars he spent on a personal security force, or… well, you get the idea."