EP: 103 Commissioner Tommy Hunter Has Filed A $5 Million Dollar Lawsuit
www.GoodMorningGwinnett.com #Podcast Two years after being publicly reprimanded in the wake of a Facebook post calling Congressman John Lewis a \u201cracist pig,\u201d Gwinnett County Commissioner Tommy Hunter has filed a new federal lawsuit asking for $5 million in damages.
The suit filed last week in U.S. District Court in Atlanta claims that the punishment handed down by Hunter\u2019s commission colleagues in June 2017 violated his First Amendment right to free speech. In addition to the monetary demands, it asks that the reprimand \u2014 which was posted at the Gwinnett County courthouse, on the county website and in the county\u2019s legal organ \u2014 be rescinded.\u201cChilling of 1st Amendment political speech by government officials to negate criticism of other elected government officials \u2026 amounts to an overbroad \u2018political correctness\u2019 gag order,\u201d Hunter\u2019s attorney, Dwight Thomas, wrote in the suit.