Barrow Journal: Outgoing Winder Mayor Seeks to Name Competitor City's 'Official Advertising Source'

The , one of two newspapers that serve Barrow County, accuses outgoing of planning to take a "slap" at the publication.

The newspaper reports Thompson plans to ask the Winder City Council to name its competitor, the , the city's "official advertising source" during a work session meeting tonight.

The Barrow Journal was recently named the for 2012 and 2013. After 2013, public notices will rotate on a two-year cycle between the Journal and the Barrow County News.

The Journal accuses Thompson, Barrow County Board of Commissioners Chairman Danny Yearwood and Barrow County News publisher Dennis Stockton of attempting to have the sheriff, probate judge and clerk of court, those who named the Journal the county's official legal organ in early November, change their votes.

“It just a petty move by an outgoing politician,” Barrow Journal co-publisher Mike Buffington said in the article. “State law dictates what kind of public notices have to be published in what newspapers and even sets the rate newspapers can charge for much of that public notice advertising. Certain kinds of notices do not have to run in the legal organ, but about 90 percent of all city and county public notices do have to be published in the county legal organ. The outgoing mayor can’t change state law; and the Winder city council has bigger issues to deal with than this kind of personal pettiness.”

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