WSB-TV reporter Richard Belcher went down to Braswell, northwest of Atlanta in Paulding County, to question the city leaders about city funds. Now, Braswell is this tiny dot on the map, with about 80 people (some accounts say that the city's population is as high as 200, but I think 80 is a more realistic number), and hardly has enough folks to call itself a city- let alone have a little league baseball team. The city manager, Alan Fennell, didn't cotton to the idea of WSB's camera rolling:
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My impression of the whole ball of wax is that Braswell has something that it doesn't want the rest of the country- let alone metro Atlanta- to know about. Otherwise, he wouldn't have threatened Belcher with a neck wringing. I guess that's another example of "politics as usual".
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