State legislative candidate involved in controversy

KINGSLAND - The former mayor of Kingsland, now a candidate for the state Legislature, is being accused of strong-arming a city councilman with a videotape that shows the councilman kissing and fondling a female prisoner ten years ago. <br> <br> Kingsland&#39;s former police chief, who has given the videotape to prosecutors, says Mayor Keith Dixon ordered him to deny the tape&#39;s existence so the mayor could use it to manipulate the votes of City Councilman Lemon Dawson. <br> <br> Wesley Liles, who left office as police chief in 2000, says the mayor threatened to fire him if he gave the tape to authorities. <br> <br> The allegations come a month after the 46-year-old Dixon resigned after 17 years as mayor of Kingsland, a coastal Georgia city near the Florida line to seek election to the state House of Representatives. <br> <br> Dixon denies any involvement and called Liles a disgruntled ex-employee.