There are some fireworks going on in HD-81, which is currently represented by State Rep. Jill Chambers. I've interviewed Rep. Chambers here before. She is a great person and I considered her to be a friend. I have to admit though that I was disappointed with some of her votes in the last session.

The first story is about the two Democrats running for the opportunity to face Chambers in November. Chris Huttman and Cecillia Hailey are seeking the Democratic Party nomination. Apparently, Hailey has some issues. Andre Walker has covered some of this stuff previously over at Georgia Politics Unfiltered.

Huttman created a website, CecilliaHailey.com, and turned it into a clearing house of information about his opponent including links to legal documents. It also links one of Bill Shipp's columns that mentions her legal issues:

In DeKalb County, State Rep. Jill Chambers, R-Dunwoody, represents the only DeKalb legislative seat that was won by John Kerry in 2004. She seemed vulnerable in the coming counter attack. Finally, Democrats got busy to make sure she would soon be a goner. They recruited Cecilia Hailey to oppose her.

Unfortunately for Democrats, Hailey has a felony conviction for writing a bad check, and at the time she entered the race, she had an outstanding felony arrest warrant for writing another bad check last December.

Hailey has been sued multiple times for failing to pay bills, has an outstanding lien against her for failure to pay state income taxes and recently lost her South DeKalb home to her mortgage lender. She has a primary opponent, but the state Democratic Party and Democratic legislative leaders have been strangely unwilling to say that a convicted felon is an unacceptable nominee in a district that is among their best (and few) opportunities to knock off a Republican legislator.

Sorry, if you have a character issue, especially a felony conviction, voters deserve to know.

Jill Chambers has problems of her own. Her husband, Albert, got tired of what he considered to be slander against his wife in a local paper, The Dunwoody Crier, and called the two individuals he believed to be responsible, who also happen to be members of the state legislature:

Albert Chambers, the husband of Rep. Jill Chambers (R-Atlanta), left telephone voice mail messages for Rep. Fran Millar (R-Dunwoody) and Sen. Dan Weber (R-Dunwoody) accusing them of slandering his wife.

Chambers did not threaten physical harm to the legislators and emphasized that any action he took would be within the law.

This particular fight is over the potential incorporation of Dunwoody, a matter that will be settled on Tuesday. Millar and Weber support incorporation. Chambers is opposed to it.

Millar and Weber attempted to file a complaint with DeKalb County, which seems utterly pointless unless a physical threat was made. The police department said they would not get involved and referred them to the DeKalb County District Attorney.

Weber and Millar seem to be overreacting.