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Officials get mouthy at meeting
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Tempers flared leading one commissioner to storm out during the Warren County Commissioners Meeting Monday night.Commissioner Michael Martin had several questions for and comments to elected officials and department heads which led to heated discussions on at least three separate occasions prompting Commissioner Gary Prater to get up and walk out during the full court meeting. Prater said, “I thought somebody should have escorted him (Martin) out of the meeting. I don’t come to County Commission meetings to hear a bunch of arguing, so I got up and left.”Martin had questions for Les Trotman, who addressed the commissioners in the absence of Industrial Development Board representative Jeff McCormick.“Why are we still paying him?” asked Martin, referring to McCormick.