The Savannah Morning new is reporting that Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss has been supoenaed in a case in Wentworth, GA involving the Imperial Sugar Co. explosion and fire that killed fourteen and injured many others. Link bleow:
http://savannahnow.com/...
More below:
Chambliss, received $1,000 in contributions from Imperial's political committee and is alleged to have tried to shift responsibility away from the company.
Savannah attorney Mark Tate says Chambliss might be part of an Imperial "effort to shift responsibility" away from the company.
Tate says he thinks Imperial enlisted Chambliss to help "denigrate the reputation" and "bias the Chatham County jury pool" against Graham H. Graham, Imperial Sugar's vice president for operations.
Tate also said Chambliss attended meetings with two of his clients and top Imperial officials, including President and CEO John Sheptor.
The clients' "impression" was that they were told "it would be better to let the government handle the matter than to litigate," Tate said.
The supeona coming with less than two weeks before the contested senate race between Saxby Chambliss and democrat Jim Martin could be the final tipping point for Martin. The local GOP assertion this supeona is planned to hurt Chambliss's chances for re-election is addressed by Tate.
Tate said he can't delay the subpoenas until after the election. Confidential documents he has obtained, he said, suggest that "we must move quickly in order to preserve evidence."
He said he has not contributed to Martin's campaign.
This news item is also being run on the Huffington Post. With Martin showing in the margin of error in polls, it is a significant event in Georgis and hopefully will put Martin in the lead.
UPDATE: To contribute to Jim Martin's campaign follow this link:
https://services.myngp.com/...