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Bebe Heiskell’s enemies are powerful, she explained last week. They’re dedicated. And they’re mysterious.
During an appearance on UCTV, Heiskell explained why she is not running as a Republican for the first time since her election as Walker County, Ga., commissioner in 2000. She blamed the change on the LaFayette Underground, a blog run by anonymous writers.
“I had some people in that party that were writing things about me on the Underground and calling me corrupt and things like that,” she said. “They set up an oversight committee to follow me around. And watch me. And take documentation.”
Heiskell, a 16-year commissioner with more than 40 years of experience in Walker County government, did not return a call or an email Friday asking how she knew she had been stalked. But at any rate, at least to her, this part of her political career has been marked by something she couldn’t have predicted when she started working for the county, before the internet changed everybody’s lives.