Screenshot of Bebe Heiskell’s exchange with Shannon Whitfield on Facebook.
Screenshot of Bebe Heiskell’s exchange with Shannon Whitfield on Facebook.
Shannon WhitfieldDifferences in debt estimates
Whitfield’s estimateBase debt: $53.2 millionPlus: $10 million to ErlangerPlus: $15 million Development Authority bondHeiskell’s estimateBase: $32.5 millionExcludes: Debt to Erlanger*Excludes: Development Authority bond**Excludes: $4 million landfill closure debtExcludes: $3 million pension liability* U.S. District Court judge ruled Walker County owes Erlanger $8.7 million, plus (maybe) attorneys’ fees. Walker County has appealed.** Heiskell said this is covered with a 1-mill property tax
Perry LambWalker County, Ga., Commissioner Bebe Heiskell’s Facebook page on Friday accused her political opponent of cheating on his wife.
“I fully expected you to go back to your same old lying ways,” a Facebook post from Heiskell’s account read Friday morning, during a dispute with candidate Shannon Whitfield about how much debt the county had. “Just as you have been untruthful about your history be it business, school, and family.”
The post continued: “You were being deceptive and know it. Juts [sic] as deceptive as you have been the last 20 years in your marriage. However, I will not stoop low enough to tell the people the truth about that.”
Whitfield said Tuesday that he took the posts as an accusation of infidelity, which he called “totally a false accusation.” Whitfield added that he confronted Heiskell about the Facebook post Friday morning, when they both attended a chamber of commerce luncheon at the county’s Agricultural Center in Rock Spring.