{"id":148,"date":"2007-10-11T10:20:05","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T17:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/11\/latest-trw-rant\/"},"modified":"2007-10-11T10:59:52","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T17:59:52","slug":"latest-trw-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/latest-trw-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"latest TRW rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RE:\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/trw10_11_07a.jpg\" title=\"TRW 10\/11\/07 a\">TRW 10\/11\/07 a<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/trw10_11_07b.jpg\" title=\"TRW 10\/11\/07 b\">TRW 10\/11\/07 b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After you get through the\u00a0repetition from the wisdom of former commissioner Dunn and the TRW=judge&amp;jury legal conclusions about alleged open meetings violations, you get to this moral point, &#8220;[T]he public trust &#8212; your trust &#8212; must always be considered as the paramount responsibility of elected officials.&#8221;\u00a0 And, &#8220;Trust of the people should trump the convenience of the commissioners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"394\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/800-lb-gorilla-in-living-room.jpg\" alt=\"800 lb gorilla in living room\" height=\"250\" style=\"width: 394px; height: 250px\" \/>\u00a0In principle these are good ideas,\u00a0however, in the context of the TRW&#8217;s weekly ECN attacks on the BOCC, treating them as whipping boys and girls for their leftist agenda, and considering the virtual certainty that no matter what the BOCC did, the beatings would continue (because the BOCC are not leftists and never will be,) these moral arguments ring\u00a0as hollow as the pumpkins on my front porch.<\/p>\n<p>You never have to look long to find the 800 lb. gorilla in the TRW&#8217;s living room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RE:\u00a0 \u00a0TRW 10\/11\/07 a\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 TRW 10\/11\/07 b After you get through the\u00a0repetition from the wisdom of former commissioner Dunn and the TRW=judge&amp;jury legal conclusions about alleged open meetings violations, you get to this moral point, &#8220;[T]he public trust &#8212; your trust &#8212; must always be considered as the paramount responsibility of elected officials.&#8221;\u00a0 And, &#8220;Trust [&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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","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=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}