In addition to all the BS Cecilia Jones has done there is also this...thanks Danny Glidewell for the info.
In all the media reports about the alleged harassment of county employees by a county commissioner, one thing has not been discussed that is potentially very damaging to the county taxpayers. The county has two deputy administrators, one female and one male. The female has been employed by the county approximately 26 years while her male counterpart has been employed by Walton County approximately 10 years. Yet the male employee makes approximately 26,000 dollars more than the female. This is in black and white on the county pay schedule and it is apparently a violation of the Equal Pay Act of 1963 which states: "No employer having employees subject to any provisions of this section [section 206 of title 29 of the United States Code] shall discriminate, within any establishment in which such employees are employed, between employees on the basis of sex by paying wages to employees in such establishment at a rate less than the rate at which he pays wages to employees of the opposite sex in such establishment for equal work on jobs[,] the performance of which requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and which are performed under similar working conditions, except where such payment is made pursuant to (i) a seniority system; (ii) a merit system; (iii) a system which measures earnings by quantity or quality of production; or (iv) a differential based on any other factor other than sex [...] [2] "
I cannot believe that this has been allowed to happen and cannot believe that petty politics could be allowed to place the taxpayers at risk. In the 21st Century it is hard to comprehend that such a thing could happen.