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State Briefs
Man who filmed sex
gets 60 years
ATLANTA (AP) - A man
who pleaded guilty to molest
ing young, female relatives
and posting the videotaped
encounters on the Internet
has been sentenced to 60
years in prison.
Stephen L. Pease, 40,
pleaded guilty last month
to one count of rape, one
count of incest, two counts
of aggravated child molesta
tion, two counts of aggravat
ed sexual battery and three
counts of child molestation.
Prosecutors had sought life
in prison for Pease. Fulton
Superior Court Judge John
Goger sentenced Pease to a
total of 60 years on all nine
counts.
Alpharetta police said
Pease videotaped the sexual
abuse for viewing by others
in an Internet video chat
room.
One of the relatives, a
12-year-old, reported that
Pease had raped her from
March through August. She
told authorities she reported
it to a friend’s mother after
seeing her 7-year-old sister
coming from Pease’s bed
room with her pants down.
Alpharetta police said
Pease videotaped the sexu
al abuse for viewing on an
Internet *video chat room.
Most of the abuse happened
while the girls’ mother slept
or while, she was working
three jobs to support her
family, Alpharetta police
said.
System plans
criminal checks
ATLANTA(AP)-Georgia’s
university system is develop
ing plans to require crimi
nal background checks on
all new faculty and staff, but
the idea does not sit well
with the organization that
represents professors in the
state.
In a memo December
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dents, Chancellor Erroll
Davis said he had asked the
system’s legal affairs office
to draft a “more system
atic policy,” requiring back
ground checks for all full
time hires.
Georgia’s 35 public col
leges and universities have a
variety of policies on crimi
nal checks, he said in the
memo. Some require them
for all employees; others
check only those in a posi
tion of trust.
Under the new policy, all
new hires would face a state
and federal criminal histo
ry check covering a mini
mum of seven years and a
Social Security check. Those
in professional, faculty and
academic positions would
also undergo an academic
credentials check.
Hugh Hudson, a Georgia
State University history pro
fessor and head of the state
chapter of the American
Association of University
Professors, sent a letter to
Davis last month saying
a number of faculty and
administrators have “deep
concerns” about the poten
tial for abuse under the new
policy.
Hudson said in the let
ter that the national chapter
of the AAUP recommends
background checks be per
formed only on those with
significant security consid
erations.
At Davis’ invitation,
Hudson is working with the
system’s legal department to
address privacy concerns.
Faculty groups at the
University of Georgia and
Georgia State will be dis
cussing the issue at upcom
ing meetings.
Kidd takes the helm
of state Dem. Party
ATLANTA (AP) - Jane
Kidd has a simple but ambi
tious goal for Georgia’s
Democrats: field candidates
in every race around the
state, no matter how small.
The newly elected state
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Democratic chairwoman said
the party needs to rebuild
itself from the ground up if
it wants to regain its former
luster.
“It’s all about grass roots,”
Kidd said in an interview
with The Associated Press.
“That’s the way to groom
new talent.”
The former public rela
tions executive and mother
of two takes the helm of
a party that has struggled
to find its footing since the
Republican juggernaut of
2002 ended generations of
Democratic rule in Georgia.
Things haven’t been look
ing up for Democrats since
then. Republican Gov.
Sonny Perdue won a sec
ond term in a landslide this
past November and the state
GOP easily raked in millions
more dollars than the out-of
power Democrats.
“What we need to do is
build from within and make
our Democrats proud to be
Democrats again,” Kidd
said.
Her first test will be 2008,
when the Democrats must
find someone to face Saxby
Chambliss, who is expected
to seek a second term in the
U.S. Senate.
But don’t expect Kidd to
focus solely on the marquee
Senate race. This is a mara
thon, not a sprint, she said.
“That race is important
and I am confident we will
have a strong candidate,”
she said. “But if we haven’t
built some of our infrastruc
ture back up that candidate
will suffer and so will every
other candidate we put out
there.”
That means money and
local organization.
Kidd knows what she’s
talking about.
She came to her new role
after losing her bid for the
state Senate. Kidd’s race
was complicated when the
state Senate seat she was
seeking was redrawn by
the Republican-controlled
state Legislature to split the
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Democratic stronghold of
Athens in half. Kidd sudden
ly found herself campaign
ing in heavily Republican
areas where there’d been
no active Democratic Party
structure in years.
“I saw some people were
really turned off just by
the word ‘Democrat,’” she
recalled. “I would say I was
running as a Democrat and
they would ask ‘why?’”
The subsequent loss was a
hard one.
“I felt like the turf had
been turned upside down on
me with the redistricting,”
Kidd said.
She entered the crowded
race for party chair, in part,
because she wanted a dis
traction.
Still, Kidd has politics in
her blood. She’s the daugh
ter of Ernest Vandiver, who
served as Georgia’s governor
from 1959 to 1963. Vandiver
wrote the obituary for his
own political career when
he chose not to oppose the
integration of the University
of Georgia. Her great-uncle
is the late U.S. Sen. Richard
B. Russell.
This Valentine’s Day spend a Romantic Evening in Fort
Valley’s Historic District at the
Lilly of the Valley Bed & Breakfast
Lilly of the Valley will be offering a carriage ride view of 19 Victorian Homes and a
Dinner for l\vo with choices of Prime Rib, Tenderloin and Fried Jumbo Shrimp.
All Meals served with Soup or Salad, Duchess Potatoes, Glazed Carrots, Broccoli with Cheese
and Warm Rolls & Cinnamon rolls and if you have room for dessert, your choice of Brownie
Delight, New England Strawberry Shortcake or Brandy Bread Pudding.
Dinner will be presented Buffet Style at $12.95
each and an optional carriage ride for $15.00 each
or both for $52 per couple.
Carriage rides will be available every Sunday in
February from 11:00 AM to 5 PM.
Located on 104 Persons Street in Fort Valley
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Obituaries
RUBY MAE HARWELL
WARNER ROBINS - Ruby Mae Kent Harwell, 82, passed
away Monday. Harwell was born March 6, 1924 in Upson
County. A resident of Warner Robins since 1951, she was a
member of Northside Baptist Church. She was very active
at Northside Baptist where she sang with the Melotones
and taught Sunday school. She retired from civil service at
Robins Air Force Base where she worked as a supply clerk.
Ruby was a pink lady at Houston Medical Center for more
than 20 years. Her husband, Paul Brown Harwell, and her
parents, Kernel Curtis Kent and Bertha Davis Kent, all pre
ceded her in death.
Survivors include her daughters and sons-in law, Paulette
and J. Neff, Warner Robins; Kim Harwell and Larry Toole,
Reynolds; one granddaughter and grand son-in-law, Natasha
and Enoch Lake, Dublin; and one great granddaughter, Pie
Aryan Crush, Dublin. Services will be held at 2 p.m. today
in Northside Baptist Church with interment following in
Glen Haven Memorial Gardens. Memorials may be given
to Heart of Georgia Hospice - Serenity Gate 103 Westridge
Drive Warner Robins, GA, 31088.
Go to www.mcculloughfh.com to sign the Online Registry
for the family. McCullough Funeral Home has charge of
arrangements.
Pres. Bush rejects call for
short-term Peach Care rescue
WASHINGTON (AP)
Georgia’s Peach Care
program moved closer to
going broke Monday when
President Bush denied a
request for a stopgap budget
that would help at least 14
states facing deficits in their
children’s health insurance
programs.
But Democrats, who now
hold the purse strings in
Congress, could have the
final say.
On Friday, Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid and House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked
the president to include a
$745 million request for
the State Children’s Health
Insurance Program (SCHIP)
in his emergency war spend
ing plan for 2007.
The money would keep
states with shortfalls from
having to cut off coverage
while Congress works to
reauthorize the program
over the coming months.
Georgia officials say they
could have to end policies
for some 273,000 children
next month.
“Unless we act quickly
to provide additional funds
to this important program,
we are putting the health
coverage of thousands of
Americans in jeopardy,” Reid
and Pelosi wrote in a letter
to Bush. “The cost of fill
ing the funding shortfall is
minor in comparison to your
other emergency requests.”
Dennis Smith, director
of Center for Medicaid and
State Operations, said Bush
instead has called for redis
tributing SCHIP money
from states with surpluses.
Last year, Bush proposed
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forcing states to give up
unspent money more quick
ly, he said.
“We proposed a solution,”
Smith said. “That solution
would still work ... There’s
plenty of money. It’s just in
different places.”
According to the non
partisan Government
Accountability Office, while
some states still don’t spend
their full individual allot
ments, state spending over
all has outstripped federal
funding in recent years. And
the pool of unspent money is
quickly shrinking, the GAO
said.
States - and their rep
resentatives in Congress -
have strongly resisted giving
up surplus money, arguing
that they will need it as par
ticipation grows.
Facing a sl3l million
shortfall, Georgia could
become the first state to run
out of money.
Dan McLagan, a spokes
man for Republican Gov.
Sonny Perdue, noted that
the president’s request is
just a proposal.
“The next step in the pro
cess is a legislative one and we
feel confident that Congress
will step up to the plate,”
he said, calling it a “positive
sign” that Democratic lead
ers have put their weight
behind the proposal.
The Democrats could get
significant backing from
Republicans, particularly
those whose states are run
ning short.
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