The Marietta Daily Journal – Moving the goalposts Olive branch rebuff boomerangs on critic

COBB Commission Chairman Tim Lee issued an unexpected public apology to one of his most dogged critics Thursday in connection with the Atlanta Braves move to Cobb. And the apology appeared to meet the conditions the critic had earlier set for pulling the plug on an ethics case he has filed against the chairman.

So did the apology do the trick?

No. The critic responded not by dropping the suit, but instead by “moving the goalposts.”

“(The apology) does not address the Open Records Act issues in my complaint, so I’m not going to drop the complaint,” said Cheek, although his public requests for an apology had never been conditional on a point-by-point response to his suit.

Cheek later elaborated in an email to Around Town that if he were to drop the suit, someone else would pick it up and pursue it.

“I prefer to just bring the matter to a head now, and everyone, even Chairman Lee will be better off when it is all behind us,” he wrote.

via The Marietta Daily Journal – Moving the goalposts Olive branch rebuff boomerangs on critic.