candle burns out occassionally
Good people finish last? What is that saying? Good guys? Some days after work I am tired and I wonder who ar the good guys? Speak of feeling weird…Good things seem to happen to bad people.
I used to live in this town…That is not suprising, since we moved 42 times growing up.That is another story. We were weird. Maybe that is why I am…on with the story.
Small-town mayor wins Georgia Lottery
DAWSON, Ga. (AP) - The mayor of this small town won $500,000 US in the Georgia Lottery a month before his trial on charges of insurance fraud and forgery.
Robert Albritten went to Atlanta on Monday and picked up his prize, worth about $300,000 after taxes, said lottery spokesman J.B. Landroche.
Albritten is scheduled to go on trial next month on 19 counts. The owner of a funeral home, he allegedly sold life insurance to elderly nursing home residents, many of whom may not have realized what they were purchasing. Insuring people without their knowledge is against Georgia law.
Earlier this year, Albritten pleaded guilty to drunken driving after a wreck that hospitalized a woman. His blood alcohol level was 0.167 per cent, more than twice the legal limit.
He has been mayor since 1991 in the town of 5,500 people in southwest Georgia. He was re-elected last fall despite the drunken driving and fraud charges.
Albritten has refused to comment on his legal problems and did not return a call seeking comment Wednesday.
Lottery officials said he won the largest prize possible in the 10th Anniversary Instant Game. The odds of winning $500,000 are one in 480,000, Landroche said.
OH, well what the hell. Some people don’t even try. I try to be a GOOD MOM, but on lots of days I would nag, nag, and nag. I don’t see things the way my kids do. I worry that they will be influenced by bad people or be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Mostly, drugs, and stupid (oops…there I go again with my nagging). Here is a candle for all you who need to stop nagging and stop worrying. My goal this week.
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