Ask Perdue for help in Johnson case

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Tuesday, September 21. 2010

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Gov. Sonny Perdue will be in Barnesville October 2 for a prayer breakfast. No local issue deserves more prayerful consideration than the Donna Ogletree Johnson murder case.

Donna's sister Becky Peterman has written Perdue directly to no avail. Thus far she has also been ignored by Sen. Saxby Chambliss, Sen. Ronnie Chance and state representatives Jim Cole, Billy Maddox, David Knight and Tony Sellier.

Sen. Johnny Isakson took time out to send a form letter. Congressman Lynn Westmoreland is the only elected official at any level to have taken any action whatsoever or even respond to correspondence.

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#1 Annie Nonomas on 09/21/10 at 08:32 PM

I posted earlier tonight that we (all who are trying to see this case brought to an end), should all gather at the FAB and ask him, with all respect to the position he holds, that if he cant, or wont help, that he enlist the help of the FBI. I WILL BE THERE. Donna and her friends and family deserve some answers after 26 years. It comes as no surprise to me that no politician has gotten back to Becky. The only thing they understand is a vote. Remember that when you go to the polls! As for publishing photos of Donna in death I think they would probably be too graphic for the general public. Maybe Becky would agree to publishing the photos , but i wouldnt blame her if she didnt. I would bet the farm her next surviving relative would look at this as a big hell no but maybe it would at least bring out that million dollar lawyer. Milam would probably try to do anything he could to stop it too. But maybe if people could see what was done to Donna it would shake things up and that could only be a good thing. JUSTICE FOR DONNA! CALL THE TV AND RADIO STATIONS! MAKE IT HARD FOR SONNY TO IGNORE THIS CASE!

#1.1 NOT Shelia Tolley on 09/22/10 at 07:39 AM

Maybe Walter should post her crime scene picture and just crop out everything but her face and shoulders. Run it in color.

#1.2 rhoda dunn on 09/23/10 at 09:47 AM

i think it is a good idea. i would be there. the news of all sorts should be called. what color shirt and where do we meet? what could be more important than a human life? the hell with a politition or anyone else that thinks anything is more important than someones love one. if it were ole sonnys child, what do you think would happen? i have never done anything like that before but will for donna and becky. LETS DO IT

#1.2.1 Anonymous on 09/26/10 at 02:35 PM

Black? anyone else and when where?

#2 NOT Shelia Tolley on 09/21/10 at 09:45 PM

Thank you for your correspondence Congressman Westmoreland. It is duly noted. I would be interested in what he had to say.

Remember those who are complacent at election time.

Yep, I brought up politics. Don't re-elect those who will not acknowledge you or the issues you face!

Make sure you tell people of your personal experiences with your elected officials and exercise your right to vote.

#3 Anonymous on 09/22/10 at 01:37 PM

geiger if no one in politics will listen what makes,you think posting articles for months is gonna make the career politicians listen.all your doing is adding salt to a wound that cant be healed and adding to the pain the family already has experienced,and continues to experience by your none stop articles that have gotten them no where near closier if thats possible.

#3.1 Sheila Tolley on 09/23/10 at 08:26 AM

There are two sides to this issue...........you are on the wrong one.

If you do not think politics can be crooked for years, you need to read up on the recent Judges who suddenly STEPPED down and promised never to seek office again, so they could spend time with their Grandchildren. How lame. All that have not responded to Becky are just as sorry.

#4 Anonymous on 09/22/10 at 02:11 PM

Got to GBI.GOV and click on How are we doing?
Tell them how they are doing. i did

#5 Anonymous on 09/22/10 at 02:25 PM

I sent an email!

#5.1 Anonymous on 09/23/10 at 02:32 PM

Well good for you.

#6 g.t on 09/22/10 at 04:00 PM

How about the preacher out at our Mega-Church. He is fairly connected and loves his picture in the paper. He is always trumpeting other causes, why not this one? Maybe everyone should e-mail him also.
If you get a big enough group to attend Oct. 2, maybe asking everyone to wear the same color would improve the effect. (i know it sounds dumb,but it works)

#7 Anonymous on 09/22/10 at 05:13 PM

For heaven's sake, can't the govenor come to a prayer breakfast without b'ville hooligans harassing him? Give it a break....

#7.1 Anonymous on 09/23/10 at 07:13 AM

If anything ever happens to my daughter that the local authorities and the GBI can't or won't solve, I hope ever "Hooligan" in Barnesville and every other small town in Georgia bombards the Governor everywhere he goes. You're worried about the Governor being asked by the Barnesville citizens (on behalf of a murder victim's family) for his help in solving this horrendous act? A family that has had to suffer for 26 years? And your sympathy is for the Governor (who, in my opinion, signed on for this type event when he ran for office and was elected)? Absolutely unbelievable....

#7.2 Sheila Tolley on 09/23/10 at 08:29 AM

If he has been too sorry to answer Becky, I hope he chokes on his biscuit.

#7.3 Ron on 09/23/10 at 09:44 AM

Hooligans?
Citizens demanding their government to act, to behave, to represent them are not hooligans...they are patriots.
I for one am pretty much sick of the past administration calling folks anti-American for not agreeing with them and now this one calling us terroists and racists for not agreeing.
Joe Citizen speaking out is not only his right, it is his duty

#7.3.1 g.t on 09/23/10 at 06:22 PM

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

#7.3.2 Anonymous on 09/23/10 at 07:01 PM

Keep in mind that there is a such thing as tactfulness and class. Something a majority of posters on here apparently do not have, and I doubt they would be able to exhibit in the presence of the Governor.

Go ahead and embarrass yourselves, I know it's uncontrollable for some people.

#7.3.2.1 Anonymous on 09/24/10 at 06:08 PM

"in the presence of the Governor." give me a break He is a man, just like me. NO BETTER, NO WORSE Yet you act like we must be in awe of his greatness. That's the problem today...People like you forgot that the Governor works for us!!!!!! NOT the other way around.

#8 Legally paralysed on 09/22/10 at 05:32 PM

Go ahead and admit it , Walter. You want to claim credit if and when this case is solved. I want it solved too but Perdue simply cant do anything about it...

#8.1 Anonymous on 09/23/10 at 07:04 AM

Who cares who takes or gets credit....as long as the bastard gets what he deserves. And even if the Governor chooses to ignore the citizens and do nothing, it's no less than what is being now (or for the past 26 years, it seems). It's damn well worth a try.

#8.2 Sheila Tolley on 09/23/10 at 08:37 AM

BS. These Politicians stick together like wrestlers. They are just more FAKE and bigger liars. No different from your local politicians. Walter deserves credit when and if this case is solved. He deserves credit RIGHT NOW and Becky has sent a letter to thank him. Now get with the program or get lost.

#9 Anonymous on 09/22/10 at 05:53 PM

Oh Geesh, Perdue is about to be out, even if he wanted to help, he doesn't have time to do anything but watch the clock tick down to election day. He's a has been that is on his way out.

As for Saxby Chambliss, I find it VERY hard to believe that he did not respond. He certainly responded to 3 letters I have sent to him in the past, in a VERY timely and personal manner.

If anyone wants results from a politician, send a letter to the President. He won't respond, Bush didn't went I wrote him, but the letters are forwarded to a department that CAN help, and WILL help in whatever way they are legally able to (at least that's what I have seen in past letters I have written). Not federal workers can do much about a STATE issue, but if the FBI has jurisdiction (which I do not see how they could have jurisdiction to be honest) then they may even forward the letter to the FBI, or maybe even to the GBI. I have found that when others in high government positions send a letter to those who choose to ignore, they DO NOT ignore any longer.

#9.1 Sheila Tolley on 09/23/10 at 08:44 AM

Well, Becky certainly does not have a reason to lie about Saxby Chambliss.

I bet they would rather lose your vote than get all your correspondence. You sound like one of those pesky people.

#9.1.1 Anonymous on 09/23/10 at 02:04 PM

Pesky....lol Sheila are you a bit jealous that someone may actually know more than you do when it comes to certain things? If one knows how to write letters properly, one does get results. Better to be pesky and write to those whom are paid from my tax dollars, than be a know-it-all busybody who sure likes to cut people down a lot when they don't particularly agree with another persons statement.

Becky says Saxby Chambliss did not reply, I am not calling her a liar, I am just saying I find that very difficult to believe based on my own past experience. Especially when he has not only always responded to my letters, but he's also responded in the time-frame that he is required to, by law. Yes, even politicians have laws they must abide by, especially when it comes to addressing constituent concerns. Rather it's a secretaty sending a form letter with a stamped signature, or an actual ink signature, many do respond. Maybe not Perdue (yeah Perdue likes to ignore people), but Saxby Chambliss, yeah, he has always responded to my inquiries.

#9.1.1.1 Sheila Tolley on 09/23/10 at 04:06 PM

I would think that a person with your expertise in communications would use their name. Did you sign your letters to The Pope and all the others as Anonymous? Did you send your letters as registered mail? You are so organized, you would certainly know when they received your influential communications so that you could begin measuring their response time.

To answer your question, no...I do not mind that you are so intelligent. I know little about a bunch of things but a lot about nothing. I love it that way.

Sip some expensive wine and chill out.

#9.1.1.1.1 Anonymous on 09/24/10 at 03:05 AM

Since you seem to be unaware, the automatically assigned name when posting here is "Anonymous". The majority of posters here do not "Sign" our names as "Anonymous", like you claim, but it happens by default.

Admit it, the real reason you sign "Sheila Tolley" is for attention.

I don't care for personal recognition or pats on the back, because it's not about me.

#9.1.1.1.1.1 Sheila Tolley on 09/24/10 at 08:09 AM

Once you type your name in, your name becomes the default. Just check the remember block. It is really simple. Really, really easy for someone so brilliant as yourself. Like falling off a log....

#9.1.1.1.2 Anonymous on 09/24/10 at 04:19 AM

Sheila, I don't answer to you and I will sign my name however I like. So what someone disagrees with you, get over it, go out, get our from behind your keyboard, have fun, enjoy life....why not go get laid? Sounds like you're the one who needs to chill. I'm not the one spending 24/7 posting comments, but it does look like you spend almost that much time doing so. It makes you look utterly ridiculous. And don't say you're doing it for Donna, if you were, you'd have been posting for Donna ever since the Internet became available in typical homes. And you would have been writing letters before there was Internet. You like adding your name because you're a glory hound, who seeks praise and pulls a tantrum when praise is not forthcoming.

#9.1.1.1.2.1 rhoda dunn on 09/24/10 at 07:10 AM

you are so wrong ANONYMOUS she signs her name because she hides nothing. i hope donna murderers is squirming reading these blogs, if i were quilty i would and a squirm is better than nothing. are you the anonymous that puts his wife in corner for speaking? why do you hate strong women? GO SHEILA GO

#9.1.1.1.2.1.1 fedupfred on 09/24/10 at 10:12 AM

Rhoda,what is quilty? Is that the same as guilty...or do all of you intellectual female CSI wannabes have a new word all your own? Gov. Perdue would certainly be impressed with you, Shelia and then gang.

The sad thing is now this story has been run into the ground. People who supported this at first are now like- tell that Tolley woman and all her cronies to shut up. Perhaps Becky should disassociate herself with these people if she wants the support of people who could possibly help. The squeaky wheel doesn't always get the oil. Sometimes it gets pushed off the road.

#9.1.1.1.2.1.1.1 Anonymous on 09/24/10 at 01:48 PM

Sad, but true.

Nothing good can possibly come out of you people continually dragging this through the mud over and over and over.

#9.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1 rhoda dunn on 09/27/10 at 09:46 AM

it is for sure nothing will not happen with unconcerned and heartless people setting on their butts ignoring a murderer going free.

#9.1.1.1.2.1.1.2 feduprhoda on 09/25/10 at 11:40 AM

no one wants sonny or cares at all if he gets impressed or not. we just want a push for donnas murderers to go to court. i am too old for school fedupfred. gggggggguilty. how long did it take to find the qqqqqq, really fedup is that all you have got to piss and moan about, my spelling? GET A LIFE most people can read between the lines and tou cannot even figure thru the blog that quilt was really guilty.I GUESS THEY PUT THE Q IN THE WRONG PLACE ON MY KEY BOARD

#9.1.1.1.2.1.1.2.1 Anonymous on 09/26/10 at 07:06 AM

Well you showed fedupfred to be right. You just showed your class and intelligence. So funny how your little clique (that's another word for group) gets so upset over any sort of criticism, but yet you can dish it out with no problem.

#9.1.1.1.2.1.1.3 Sheila Tolley on 09/25/10 at 05:30 PM

Why so venomous?

#9.1.1.1.2.1.2 Anonymous on 09/24/10 at 11:37 AM

You are so clueless lol.

#9.1.1.1.2.1.3 Anonymous on 09/24/10 at 11:44 AM

I forgot about you, you like the attention also. Admit it.

#9.1.1.1.2.2 Sheila Tolley on 09/24/10 at 08:17 AM

I actually blog about 45 minutes a day. Does it really take you a long time to read and type? Click on linear instead of threaded and it will put the blogs in chronological order for you then you can check the bottom of the blog to see if anything new has been added. Glad to be of assistance to you. Now you can spend more time sharing your tenderness with the world. Or just go get laid. You stand a chance. The generosity of desperate people never ceases to amaze me.

#10 Anonymous on 09/22/10 at 06:21 PM

Does anyone know exactly how many unsolved homicide cases there are in Georgia?

#11 Anonymous on 09/22/10 at 08:37 PM

Definitely contacting the Governor regarding meeting with the Ogletree family regarding Donna's case. Donna's family and support are not hooligans they are trying to have justice for Donna, mother, father, and sister.
If this was your family member you'd probably do anything you had to (act like a hooligan) if you had to to get some justice.
The person that thinks talking with the Governor of Georgia would not be beneficial to the case is an idiot.
Praying for Perdue to do the right thing and meet with the family.

#12 Anonymous on 09/22/10 at 09:45 PM

No, this is not a good idea.

Barnesville/Lamar has serious issues more suited to state level attention that should be brought to the Governor's attention.

The job situation here is dire. Unless serious efforts to bring stable employment to this immediate area are seriously undertaken, there will be little reason to continue living here.

Upson and Spaulding counties are making progress in this area. Lamar should be tapping every available resource in a similar effort to attract non textile employment.

That is something that should be brought to the Governor's attention.

#12.1 Anonymous on 09/23/10 at 09:54 AM

Where is Spaulding county?

#12.2 Anonymous on 09/23/10 at 10:25 AM

your an idiot!!

#12.3 20 on 09/23/10 at 06:43 PM

Newsflash...The Governor is already aware of the economy.

#13 Anonymous on 09/23/10 at 12:17 AM

Oh great. The Governor is coming to town, and the glory hounds are planning to harass him about their current cause.

Please, show some class, if you are able.

#13.1 Anonymous on 09/23/10 at 04:58 PM

I agree with those of you who have called these fools hooligans. Are you seriously thinking about showing so little class and bombarding the gov. with your requests? If I were him and you did that, I would make sure I did not help out. Act respectable and let's pretend you have some class.

#13.1.1 Anonymous on 09/23/10 at 06:57 PM

Sorry, but requesting the Governor's attention does not lower my class. Do you keep quiet on matters that you believe in? Are you afraid to speak out? Will you stand by idly while an injustice is served? If so, you do not deserve freedom.

#14 Anonymous on 09/23/10 at 07:36 AM

#10-There are 33 unsolved homicides in Georgia. You can go to Georgia.gov to see all of them.

#15 Anonymous on 09/23/10 at 10:26 AM

I actually got excited when I saw these articles about Donna's murder. I had great hope that this case would finally be solved and the people responsible for her murder would be punished. Yet it seems like nothing is happening, and we have nowhere to turn for help. There seems to be an awful lot of law enforcement, and elected officials that want to just pass the buck to some other official. Seems no one wants to dirty their hands with it.... I pray for justice for Donna.

#15.1 Sheila Tolley on 09/25/10 at 05:33 PM

Right you are.

#16 Anonymous on 09/25/10 at 05:53 PM

"Yet it seems like nothing is happening, and we have nowhere to turn for help. There seems to be an awful lot of law enforcement, and elected officials that want to just pass the buck to some other official. Seems no one wants to dirty their hands with it..."

Just remember this when anyone wants to "bring back" anyone else next election.

#16.1 Anonymous on 09/26/10 at 02:03 PM

We're happy with what we have now, thank you. No danger of going back to what we had before.

#17 Anonymous on 09/27/10 at 09:15 PM

First and foremost - you would act like a HOOLIGAN if this happened to your daughter or family member.
Second - Governor Perdue has gotten multiple emails from LOTS of folks requesting him meet with Becky. No reply from any of them from the Governor.
Absolutely ridiculous and corrupt judicial system!

#17.1 Anonymous on 09/28/10 at 03:51 AM

I would not act like a "hooligan" regardless of what happened to me or my loved ones. That statement speaks of your upbringing.

It is still possible to maintain dignity and class, while getting things done.

People who lower themselves to protesting, hell raising and hollering you can muster up are not taken seriously by upstanding people.

Usually they are in it for the attention.

#17.1.1 Curiouser on 09/28/10 at 08:38 AM

I think when dignity and class have been exhibited for 26 damn years and nothing happens, it's time for a little hell-raising. The Governor hasn't answered so far, so why not?

#17.1.1.1 rhoda dunn on 09/28/10 at 01:50 PM

i agree and who wants class. we are wanting the murderer of donna jailed. sonny has no time for citizens that voted him in, he has to see that the 10 yr. paid up toll gate closes for 2 days and open it back up for double money and for 10 more yrs. this is another way to cheat georgians. sonnys got to get it done before leaving office in a few weeks. anyone will be better than ole sonny boy

#17.1.1.1.1 Anonymous on 09/28/10 at 03:25 PM

Ok then, go show your asses and raise some hell to the governor. Hopefully it will make it to youtube when you get beat down by executive security. That would be entertaining at minimum.

I bet you won't do it.

#17.1.1.1.1.1 Irrefutable on 09/28/10 at 05:53 PM

I know the killers appreciate your support.

#17.1.1.1.1.1.1 Anonymous on 09/29/10 at 03:51 AM

The killers or killer are probably long gone by now, don't you realize it has been a quarter of a century ago? And on that note, it has been all that time, and y'all are just now giving serious discussion about this. Why did YOU folks wait so long before y'all started your "crusade"?

As a citizen, I am appaled at YOU people for promoting "hooligan" activities and insinuating you will ruin the Governors rare trip here during his prayer breakfast. To think that y'all expect unconditional support from everyone, when you talk on here like you have been about our elected officials and everyone and everything else is ridiculous.

This is not directed at any one specific person, but to those who are obviously blinded by unrestrained emotion and can't obviously think or act right.

I'm truly sorry that that happened to that poor girl, but this whole ordeal has gotten ridiculous. Life must go on.

#17.1.2 Anonymous on 09/28/10 at 01:43 PM

So people invoking their constitutional rights makes people hooligans?? I think our forefathers knew more about this type of thing than you do.

When the elected officals do not answer 'non-hooligan" requests, maybe the only other option is to act like our forefathers intended and encouraged.

#18 tee on 09/28/10 at 10:27 AM

I am really broken hearted that one our very own from pike and lamar county .state representative will not answer Becky's letter.I thought we had a TRUE person here.Guess not though.....

#18.1 Anonymous on 09/28/10 at 11:59 AM

Westmoreland answered.

#18.2 Anonymous on 09/28/10 at 01:06 PM

You must be referring to Billy Maddox and his no answer? I noted that too.

#19 Annie nonomas on 09/28/10 at 08:05 PM

What harm could a peaceful gathering of people do? I fail to see what harm would ever come from asking for Becky, either alone or with some clergy, asking to speak to the highest elected official in our state. If the people who commited this awful and senseless murder are still around then no one is safe.

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