The Marietta Daily Journal – Birrell Pond in game of chicken

MARIETTA — Commissioner JoAnn Birrell’s old nemesis, Joseph Pond, has tagged her with a second ethics complaint — and given the bitter history between these two east Cobb rivals, feathers are likely to fly.

Last December the county’s seven-member ethics board cleared Birrell of Pond’s charge that she violated the county’s ethics code by failing to show impartiality on a variance involving backyard chickens.

The county’s code enforcement department had cited Pond for keeping a dozen hens on his half-acre lot. The zoning law at that time stipulated that a property owner needed to have 2 acres to keep chickens. Pond was forced to give his chickens away.

Pond’s latest ethics complaint accuses Birrell of providing false statements in the brief she submitted through her attorney, Fred Bentley Jr., to the ethics board during the first case.

via The Marietta Daily Journal – Birrell Pond in game of chicken.