I wasn’t planning on doing this but a friend asked, so here they are. Thank Dave. I’ll be brief. This may seem like a party-line vote, but it is not. Also, I’m not running for any political office so my comments may offend some people.
I will choose the 3 Republican candidates for commissioners in Elbert County for the following reasons.
- They all have executive level experience and have made difficult decisions between competing subordinate interests. They have learned to say “yes” to some, “no” to others, to get all the facts before making a decision, and to support their decisions with sound circumstantial and legal analysis.
- They all appreciate that the private sector produces, the public sector consumes, that we cannot tax ourselves into prosperity, and that real economic growth is necessary for general prosperity.
- None of them appear to favor regulatory planning. They understand that planning in Elbert County has always been an advisory process to the BOCC, and that the BOCC is the citizens’ last resort from arbitrary government control of private land.
The reasons I will not choose the 3 Democrat candidates for commissioners in Elbert County are as follows.
- They all think that government can solve our problems for us. Today one went so far as to say that the “underlying problem in our infrastructure right now is the lack of communication between the commissioners and any department.” I wish this quote was out of context but it’s not.
- All three want more regulation imposed on private landowners.
- All three want citizen democrats involved with leading day-to-day county policy and decision-making. In practice this turns into undue influence by vocal minorities who crowd out balanced views from reasonable people who don’t want to suffer through the grandstanding and tedium produced by zealots.
- All three are preservationists of a mythical rural lifestyle that few people can afford these days.
- All three talk way too much while saying way too little.
That’s it in a nutshell.