{"id":1000,"date":"2008-10-09T20:25:53","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T03:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/09\/democracy-dies-with-a-chuckle\/"},"modified":"2008-11-07T08:44:42","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T15:44:42","slug":"democracy-dies-with-a-chuckle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/democracy-dies-with-a-chuckle\/","title":{"rendered":"democracy dies with a chuckle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Issue:\u00a0 Advisory vs. Regulatory Master Plan <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/R09_0005.mp3\" title=\"October 9, 2008, Elbert County Planning Commission Meeting Audio\">October 9, 2008, Elbert County Planning Commission Meeting Audio<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(42 Megs, please right click and download to your computer for listening.\u00a0 Sorry about the file size.\u00a0 It is a very clear recording and with headphones you can hear pretty much everyone in the hall.\u00a0 The meeting lasted approximately 45 minutes.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of particular interest was the closing discussion about continuation of the issue.\u00a0 This planning commission has no intention of forwarding a recommendation to the current BOCC for an executive decision.<\/p>\n<p>This planning commission and every member of the audience who spoke, often to applause, and excluding myself, favor a regulatory master plan.\u00a0 The audience contained many SVV activists.\u00a0 Listen to the audio.\u00a0 This is not democracy.\u00a0 This is not a vote of the people.\u00a0 These people don&#8217;t care about legalities.\u00a0 They will have their regulations one way or another.\u00a0 This is mobocracy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/legal-authority-of-the-master-plan.jpg\" title=\"The Legal Authority of the Master Plan\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/legal-authority-of-the-master-plan.jpg\" alt=\"The Legal Authority of the Master Plan\" height=\"692\" width=\"523\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issue:\u00a0 Advisory vs. Regulatory Master Plan October 9, 2008, Elbert County Planning Commission Meeting Audio (42 Megs, please right click and download to your computer for listening.\u00a0 Sorry about the file size.\u00a0 It is a very clear recording and with headphones you can hear pretty much everyone in the hall.\u00a0 The meeting lasted approximately 45 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,11,28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bocc","7":"category-planning","8":"category-treachery","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}