Fulton County Commissioner Natalie Hall was censured this week by her board colleagues in a 5-0 vote due to her inappropriate sexual relationship with her former chief of staff and retaining a staff member who violated county procedures while working for her.
Concerned citizens in Atlanta — the Georgia capital is the county seat of Fulton — have asked her to resign, even making fun of her relationship and mocking her as a leader.
One resident came forward at the county commission meeting on Wednesday and used the public comment segment to roast Hall. After approaching the microphone and podium, the resident interpolated soul singer Billy Paul’s 1972 hit “Me and Mrs. Jones.”
She started to sing, “Me and Mrs. Hall, we got a thing going on… and it’s much too strong to let it go now.”
“She’s using trackers to keep an eye on her crackers. She raised our taxes and doubled and doubled her gigolo’s salary,” she continued before going into a vamp about how certain explicit activities that “hurt so much” cost the taxpayers money and how Hall and Brock needed to be careful so as not to be exposed by the other politicians.
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After the woman’s colorful performance, tensions rose on the dais.
In a heated exchange, Commissioner Marvin Arrington Jr. vehemently objected to Hall’s censure being public.
“We never discuss litigation nor personnel matters on a public agenda. It is absolutely unprecedented,” he said.
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However, he was shut down by Fulton County Chair Rob Pitts, who declared him “out of order,” and the discussion moved forward.
Neither Arrington nor Hall voted on the censure, which is related to a 2021 complaint filed by her former chief of staff, Calvin Brock.
In his EEOC complaint,…
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