The Marietta Daily Journal – Widow feels revenge was motive to block her bid for City Council mayor says best candidate chosen

Suzanne Thrash thinks she knows why the mayor of Kennesaw shot down her bid to serve out the remainder of her late husband’s term on the City Council.

“I promised him I would do this,” she said of her husband. “How silly of me to think it would have worked out. I should have known better. Now everything is tainted, it’s dirty.”

Calling Wednesday’s meeting a “debacle” and a “slam” to her recently-deceased husband, the late Councilman Bill Thrash, Suzanne Thrash said what Mayor Mark Mathews would not say: he and Bill Thrash had political disagreements Mathews was not willing to let go of.

“There’s something wrong here,” she said. “There’s something really stinky in Denmark.”

She went on to say her husband was planning to challenge the mayor on a controversial issue involving the city’s ambulance service when he got too ill to continue the fight.

Mathews refutes that theory. He said the ambulance issue was settled long ago and the majority of the council picked Matthew Riedemann, chair of the Kennesaw Development Authority, to succeed Bill Thrash simply because Riedemann was the best person for the job.

via The Marietta Daily Journal – Widow feels revenge was motive to block her bid for City Council mayor says best candidate chosen.