Removal in handcuffs interrupts work session

NAHUNTA — “I’m not going anywhere. You’re gonna have to take me out in handcuffs. I know my constitutional rights.”

Brantley County resident Tanya Tomanek spoke those words to Brantley County Deputy Dewayne Whisenant when he stepped forward after Tomanek dropped and fbomb drawing the ire of commissioners at the Tuesday, July 7 Brantley County Commission work session during Public Participation.

The fifth of nine who would eventually speak, Tomanek was just over three minutes into her fiveminute alloted time when she blurted, “Our county is going f-ing bankrupt. No, we are going bankrupt, y’all. If we don’t start managing our business better, we are going to go bankrupt. We are in this situation because of us going ...”