Just a few miles north of the Boggy Thicket on US Highway 59 lies the town of Patton Village. It is a notorious speed trap and the source of numerous stories of malfeasance and corruption over the years.
We haven’t heard much out of Patton Village lately, things have been pretty quiet, but I thought of them this morning when I read this story about Hampton, Florida, a town so bad that the Florida legislature was considering pulling their city charter. You can read their story HERE.
Similarities between the two are striking. A year ago, the former mayor of Patton Village was sentenced to five years in prison for abuse of official capacity and misappropriation of city funds. The current mayor of Hampton (who ran as a reformer) was arrested after only two months in office – charged with selling oxycodone to an undercover agent.
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