Escambia County Clerk Pam Childers has sent a demand letter to County Commissioner Lumon May with an invoice for $4,253.74.
She wrote: “My office will not tolerate fraud, waste, corruption, and abuse. Therefore, payment must be made by you for this improper use of government labor and resources.”
Her explanation: “Based on an anonymous complaint from a citizen, my internal audit director discovered the land clearing and cleanup occurred on your property at 1624 Young Street. Public records indicate that the work occurred on Saturday, November 4th, 2023 and Monday, November 6th, 2023 by County Road employees. Public records obtained by my office also reflect county employees and jail inmates were used to complete the work on your property.”
I called Commissioner May. He said that work orders attached to the invoice are records falsified by one or more county employees. He voluntarily testified before a grand jury, which returned a “No True Bill” – meaning no crime was committed by the commissioner.
He referred me to his attorney Eric Stevenson. I met with Stevenson yesterday, and he will be my guest on WCOA this morning at 7 a.m. Stay tuned.
#notreadbypamchilders
1. Pam’s office needs to be thoroughly audited at this point, and whatever pertinent State agency that can muster the ability to not fall down from her bullying needs to lead the charge on that. This County cannot function with a constitutional running amok in this fashion, continually bringing fabrications and outright lies into the judicial system, and harassing other elected officials through whatever legal means she can dream up while shoving her actual job duties onto her staff.
2. She lied about the Elections Office, she has a copy of the stolen text messages, she shot her mouth off about Grand Jury investigations out at Gene’s, and she dragged Commissioners May and Bergosh through the mud during their election cycle by filing false reports with the SAO. What agency or agencies are in charge looking into all this, can enforce payment on her for her writing of illegal checks, and figure out where the money went on the surplus administrative TDT fees she took?
3. Isn’t it about time to split out the Clerk of Court function from the Comptroller of the County function? What a horrible idea to begin with, combining those two roles into one constitutional office. We’ve now had the test case of the worst someone can do with all that combined power, and it’s catastrophically disruptive.
4. Are the judges satisfied with how her office is functioning?