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Fulton County’s Board of Commissioners has denied Fani Willis’s plea for additional funding after she reportedly threw a temper tantrum threatening to sue them if they didn’t acquiesce to her demands. Willis went so far as to claim that “people will die” unless they hand her more taxpayer money, according to documents obtained by Capital B News, which covers “how Black people experience Atlanta today.”
“Itissomehardmedicinetohavetoswallow,”FultonCountycommissionerBridgetThornesaidbeforetheboardvoted5–2lastweekinfavorofamorefinanciallyconservative2025budget.
Previously,inaDecember11letteraddressedtothecountycommissioners,Williswarnedthatifshedidn’tgetherway,shemighthavetopursuelegalaction,includinglaunchingalawsuitagainsttheboard,inordertoreceivesufficientfundingfortheFultonCountyDistrictAttorney’sOffice—orelse“peoplewilldie”asaconsequenceofbudgetarycuts.
“WithoutadequatefundingtoproperlyservethecitizensofthisCounty,wehavetoexplorelegalremedieswhichin
