It could easily become a full time job parrying fallacies from the Elbert County Left factions, so I’ll try to keep this short.
The apolitical Thomassons’ call to retain county term limits comes from their personal conclusions that this particular commission has “mismanaged the county finances, borrowed us to the brink of bankruptcy and steered us into numerous lawsuits.” Without proof, charges such as these are no more than partisan rhetoric, though the last charge is kind of amusing since the Thomassons do what they can to promote lawsuits against the county whenever they have an opportunity.
The point is, term limits apply to the offices. A position for or against term limits based on a particular personality currently in an office is no more than partisan politics, a modus operandi the Thomassons seem incapable of rising above.
Are there off-line agreements made prior to public disclosures in Elbert County governing bodies? You bet. Is this phenomena practiced by all factions? Absolutely. If the Thomassons are really concerned about letting the sunshine in on backroom politics, why not start with their own factions?
Personally, I’m for county term limits because I see them as a necessary offset to the one-political-party in Elbert County for the Left, the Right, the County Employees, and the No-Growthers, all doing their damnedest under the radar to manipulate precinct caucuses and county assemblies for their own electoral advantage. Against this one-party machine, average voters don’t stand a chance. Term limits may level the playing field a bit, though a better solution would be a functioning multi-party system where candidates stand themselves and their ideas up for the voters to directly evaluate in November. This current system of shlepping into office through the county assembly pretty much guarantees that county leaders will never be accepted as legitimate by a majority of the public.