Republican/Independent/Democrat — Distinctions without a difference

Kelly Dore – “I will work hard to make sure that growth preserves our county rural lifestyles…”
John Dorman – will “…work very hard to improve our land and protect our lifestyle…“

It appears the Elbert County BOCC majority will soon shift back to country-in-county – rurally impoverished – economics.

Commissioner Rowland and Commissioner Schlegel should do everything they can to swing the pendulum in Elbert County toward freedom and liberty.

Repeal zoning. Repeal the master plan. Repeal planning regulations. Repeal all regulations.

NOW! Before the lifestyle Nazi’s get control.

Green Light Elbert County’s Private Sector! Free Elbert County Citizens from the planning Leviathan.

“Most of the rules and regulations that affect the rights of ordinary Americans are not laws written by elected lawmakers but regulations imposed by unelected administrative agencies that wield broad authority to interpret their own commissions, write their own regulations, and enforce their own rules in hearings overseen by their own agents. These bureaus are not accountable to the voting public in any realistic sense; they are generally beyond the control even of an affected citizen’s elected representatives. Yet courts review their actions with a lenient, deferential attitude, under the doctrine of Chevron, U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, a precedent that gives agencies power to interpret their mandates as expansively as they want except in the most extreme cases. In short, the modem administrative state has outstripped the quaint model of conscientious legislators deliberating about the public good, which might have justified a court in leaving citizens to the political process for protection. The idea that the people can “vote the bums out” if they dislike government policy is simply unrealistic.”

“Americans are realizing the dangers of expanding the scope of government and are protesting the continued calls for bailouts, handouts, entitlement programs, and restrictions on freedom, privacy, property rights, and other aspects of liberty. The time has come for the legal community to pay heed. The time has come to reject the notion that people have the right to control each other’s lives and to take the fruits of their labor. The time has come to secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity.”

Timothy Sandefur, The Conscience of the Constitution