Is Convicted Commissioner Elaine Boyer’s Pension “Hush Money”?
By Viola Davis

Elaine Boyer has stuck it to the taxpayers and voters once again. Boyer is laughing all the way to the bank. However, we must call the question, “Is convicted Commissioner Elaine Boyer’s pension simply hush money”?

Ex-DeKalb County Commissioner Elaine Boyer, who pleaded guilty to multiple felonies for stealing over $90,000, recently was granted her full pension using a loop-hole in the law. Without a doubt, DeKalb taxpayers’ are totally disgusted that a convicted thief will be rewarded with money after stealing from the people and breaking the public trust. How did this happen?

This proves the power of being a member of the most powerful political party in Georgia. No, we’re not saying the Republican or Democrat party. We’re speaking of the “Insider’s Club”. The “Insider’s Club” lives by a whole different set of rules and law. The “Insider’s Club” is demanding Boyer “fall on the sword”.

Elaine Boyer’s situation should wake up the general public to the fact that political insiders take pride in living beyond the law.

As stated in a recent article by the Insider Advantage Georgia website, “Ex-DeKalb Commissioner Boyer Gets the Last Laugh”, Boyer demonstrates the power of being a political insider with taking action to have the taxpayers pay her full pension to the tune of approximately $23,000 per year for the rest of her life.

Yet, we must remember that DeKalb County is performing a ten year audit of the Commissioners and their staff purchase card usage. We are due to learn the true amount of money Boyer has taken from the taxpayers and voters.

The first question we must ask is, “How much money has Boyer stolen over ten years and will we ever know the true amount”? We demand to know the total amount Elaine Boyer has stolen over a ten year period.

The second question, “Why didn’t District Attorney Robert James file charges against Boyer before we had to beg the feds to come in”? If District Attorney James had filed charges against Boyer, she would not receive full pension, nor be laughing all the way to the bank. This pushes the average person to ask if the pension is nothing more than a call for Boyer to be quiet and tell the feds nothing. Is the pension hush money?

As employers of this government, we must demand our local, state and federal law enforcements and law makers show through their actions that crime does not pay. We must send a message that the “Insiders Club” must abide by the same laws the American public is subjected to.

Boyer is due to be sentenced in December. Taxpayers and voters of DeKalb County must demand justice…equal justice.