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Historical perspectives to consider in this election. File under, “dooming ourselves to repeat history,” or “the more things change, the more they remain the same.”
As if history weren’t challenging enough, there’s also outright misrepresentation:
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“When John Dunn left office twelve days into the year 2001, there was a $1.6 million surplus.”
False. Dunn’s parting act was to take $1M of that surplus and allocate it to county employee salary increases. It was Dunn who gutted the county’s reserves. The citizens were right to vote him out after 1 term, and Dunn’s budgetary dead-hand carried forth by Mr. Thomasson should be kept off county finances.