(Florida) Gadsden County government embroiled in race plot scandal

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Source: St. Petersburg Times

TALLAHASSEE — White Gadsden County officials successfully conspired to remove or demote every black supervisor in county government, multiple lawsuits claim.

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The ringleader, according to court filings, was another county commissioner, Douglas Croley, who was depicted as referring to black employees as "the Tribe" and was the only white on the five-member commission leading up to the 2008 election.

The suits say Croley schemed with Commissioner Eugene Lamb, who is black, to defeat another incumbent black commissioner and replace him with a white man, Gene Morgan.

Once they succeeded, the suits allege, the new commission majority of Croley, Lamb and Morgan pressured a black county administrator to resign. They replaced him with a white man and gave him a "hit list" of black supervisors to fire in order to "whiten up" the staff.

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