MARIETTA — The Cobb Board of Commissioners averted another procedural standoff Tuesday night as Republicans JoAnn Birrell and Keli Gambrill agreed to vote on county business.
The decision avoided a repeat of the board’s meeting two weeks prior, when Chairwoman Lisa Cupid asked police to escort them from the dais after they attempted to abstain from voting on county business.
But the two commissioners participated only under protest Tuesday, both remarking that while they intended to represent their constituents, they maintain the board is currently operating unconstitutionally. They reiterated that the county’s effort to draw its own district lines under an untested assertion of “home rule” is in clear violation of Georgia law.
And it hardly lowered the pressure in the room before a packed and raucous audience, as no more than a few minutes at a…
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