You might remember that in the closing weeks of the Kennesaw City Council election (2013) Mr. Riedemann was again briefly in the news as Amexp had filed a 2nd suit on him for not paying his bills.
The MDJ did not take up the matter. I understand that Riedemann and Mayor Mathews (not up for election) had so much bad publicity written about them that had the MDJ published the new info that they claimed they would sue. Whether this is true or not I can't say but the Riedemann financial background is, and was at that time, very bad. This was not a candidate you would want to find on any City Council, and in fact he lost by 385 votes, leaving the Mayor with only 1 of 5 council seats to his supporter.
So the 2nd suit got virtually no play at all. After a lot of BS and 3 contacts with the Court Clerk I now have the document, frankly it wasn't worth all the effort.
This 'Affidavit of Plaintiff' ran 17 pages, only these first 4 pages are worth reading, the other 13 are just copies of the Amexp cardholder agreement. It took a long time to get this information from the Court as it was not published at their online site.
The MDJ did not take up the matter. I understand that Riedemann and Mayor Mathews (not up for election) had so much bad publicity written about them that had the MDJ published the new info that they claimed they would sue. Whether this is true or not I can't say but the Riedemann financial background is, and was at that time, very bad. This was not a candidate you would want to find on any City Council, and in fact he lost by 385 votes, leaving the Mayor with only 1 of 5 council seats to his supporter.
So the 2nd suit got virtually no play at all. After a lot of BS and 3 contacts with the Court Clerk I now have the document, frankly it wasn't worth all the effort.
This 'Affidavit of Plaintiff' ran 17 pages, only these first 4 pages are worth reading, the other 13 are just copies of the Amexp cardholder agreement. It took a long time to get this information from the Court as it was not published at their online site.
From Certification of Default below:
". . . this case remains in default; that this case is not one ex delicto and does not involve unliquidated damages. The unpaid principal amount owed is $107,108.84, plus costs in the amount of $268.50, for a balance of $107,377.34."
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Patch readers, those few left, might recall the November 2013 Kennesaw City Council election where Matt Riedemann ran for 're-election' after serving six controversial months as a Mathews apointee to the seat of a deceased Councilman Bill Thrash.
A laundry list of things came out regarding him and his checkered financial past.
One thing was an American Express suit which was reported but a second suit by Zwicker & Associated PC, representing American Express, was filed in the closing weeks of the race got scant notice.
In the second go around for AmExp, they now have a pending Default for $107,377.34 on the unanswered claim.
Some documents can be found online at Cobb Superior Court web site or at: http://riedemanninfo.blogspot.com/ , the 17 page Zwicker affidavit is not available online.
Riedemann's appointment to the Post 4 seat was made over many objections that the site should have gone to the widow of the deceased Councilman Thrash, to serve out his term, but in order to buttress his own political agenda the Mayor instead gave the seat to Riedemann who lost it a few months later to new candidate, Debra Williams, by nearly 400 votes, tallying 1,142 to Riedemann's 757.
The 2013 Council election ended Mayor Mathews hold on the City Council and all 3 standing Councilmen were removed from office with 2 new people and a former Mayor taking their seats.
Additional Kennesaw info is at: http://mayormathews.blogspot.com/
A laundry list of things came out regarding him and his checkered financial past.
One thing was an American Express suit which was reported but a second suit by Zwicker & Associated PC, representing American Express, was filed in the closing weeks of the race got scant notice.
Probably this was because the candidate was so damaged that any 're-election' was unlikely.
In the second go around for AmExp, they now have a pending Default for $107,377.34 on the unanswered claim.
Some documents can be found online at Cobb Superior Court web site or at: http://riedemanninfo.blogspot.com/ , the 17 page Zwicker affidavit is not available online.
Riedemann's appointment to the Post 4 seat was made over many objections that the site should have gone to the widow of the deceased Councilman Thrash, to serve out his term, but in order to buttress his own political agenda the Mayor instead gave the seat to Riedemann who lost it a few months later to new candidate, Debra Williams, by nearly 400 votes, tallying 1,142 to Riedemann's 757.
The 2013 Council election ended Mayor Mathews hold on the City Council and all 3 standing Councilmen were removed from office with 2 new people and a former Mayor taking their seats.
Additional Kennesaw info is at: http://mayormathews.blogspot.com/
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