{"id":195,"date":"2007-10-27T07:05:44","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T14:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/27\/party-trumps-chumps\/"},"modified":"2007-10-29T09:09:50","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T16:09:50","slug":"party-trumps-chumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/party-trumps-chumps\/","title":{"rendered":"party trumps chumps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TRW, October 07<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/trw-10_25_07a.jpg\" title=\"TRW 10_27_07a\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/trw-10_25_07a.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"TRW 10_27_07a\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/trw-10_27_07b.jpg\" title=\"TRW 10_27_07b\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/trw-10_27_07b.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"TRW 10_27_07b\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/trw-10_27_07c.jpg\" title=\"TRW 10_27_07c\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/trw-10_27_07c.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"TRW 10_27_07c\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TRW, August 07<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cElbert County does not have a sales tax, but our commissioners will ask for one in November. Their reasoning is that the Elbert County Road and Bridge Department needs the money to, you guessed it, repair and maintain Elbert\u2019s woeful system of roads. Unfortunately, the board of county commissioners is the very group that has been shifting money out of the road and bridge department for other projects that caused gross deficiencies in the first place. In what can only be described as a move that demonstrates shortsightedness, Elbert\u2019s commissioners say that if the tax increase passes, all of the money will be earmarked for road and bridge. Before you start calling us hypocrites, understand that if this money is put toward that department, there is no way to get it back into the general fund without breaking the law. Lord knows the road and bridge department is a deserving group, but it is irresponsible to put all of the money from a tax increase into a place where the money can\u2019t be used when emergencies occur. We do have emergencies from time to time.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>However you parse it, the lure of public money overcame their disdain for the BOCC.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRW, October 07 . . . . . TRW, August 07 \u201cElbert County does not have a sales tax, but our commissioners will ask for one in November. Their reasoning is that the Elbert County Road and Bridge Department needs the money to, you guessed it, repair and maintain Elbert\u2019s woeful system of roads. Unfortunately, [&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-195","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\/195","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=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}