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At The Sunday Paper, Stephanie reports, writes, and edits news stories. She also writes a weekly column about Atlanta's City Hall, the Atlanta Police Department, and crime, as well as government in general. She has appeared on MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews," where she debated Pat Buchanan, Air America's "The Lionel Show," where she debated Nancy Skinner, and the Australian national radio show, "Dads on the Air." Her blogs and columns have been cited in numerous publications around the world. She is also the founder of the Jackalope Party, a political party for fiscally conservative, socially liberal Americans. She collects National Geographics from before the fall of the USSR and her favorite movie is the brilliant Hitchcock-like French film, "He loves me, he loves me not." She deeply loves too many books to name them all, but among her favorites are A.A. Long's "Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life," Baruch Spinoza's "The Ethics," Michael White's "Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer," James Connor's "Kepler's Witch," Simon Winchester's "The Professor and the Madman," Owen Gingerich's "The Book Nobody Read," Russell Shorto's "Descartes' Bones," D.T. Max's "The Family That Couldn't Sleep," and Matthew Stewart's "The Courtier and the Heretic." Email her at stephanieramage@sundaypaper.com.
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MAYOR FRANKLIN PATS SGT. KREHER ON HIS SHOULDER--BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN?


As oddities go, it ranks up there. 

Yesterday, in the City Council meeting where the 3-mill tax increase was passed—with my outspoken approval—something completely weird happened, I mean weirder than the usual weirdness. Something weirder than the mayor and I shaking hands.

 

I was sitting right behind Sgt. Scott Kreher, president of the local chapter of the International Brotherhood of Police Officers and Gina Pagnotta, local chapter president of the Professional Association of City Employees, when Mayor Shirley Franklin walked in, said hi to me (!), reached across me to pat Sgt. Kreher on his shoulder, and said, in a friendly manner, what sounded like “Hi, Scott, how are you?” to which he responded with a cordial hello and a hand shake.

 

I don’t know what to make of it, but certainly thought the readers would like to know.

 

Kreher was suspended after saying at a council meeting on May 20 that the way the mayor's administration was treating police officers injured in the line of duty sometimes made him want to beat her in the head with a baseball bat. He apologized the next day, but was suspended anyway. He returned to work an administrative duty only on June 20. Kreher remains on admin duty without a gun or badge.


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In the world of cat fights I believe this move is called waiving your tail in the face of your opponent.

Did you shake her hand before or after this?

Turner
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 5:44 PM


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