{"id":2962,"date":"2012-06-09T13:51:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T20:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2012\/06\/09\/the-beat-goes-on\/"},"modified":"2012-06-12T21:04:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T04:04:15","slug":"the-beat-goes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2012\/06\/the-beat-goes-on\/","title":{"rendered":"the beat goes on"},"content":{"rendered":"

Judging by their column inches of campaign text in the Prairie Times this week, Lark, Jill, Robert, and Larry want to be commissioner real bad<\/em>.\u00a0 They all have an ability to interpret random public events in a light most favorable to their candidacy.\u00a0\u00a0 They all appear to need power.\u00a0 They all appear greatly disturbed that democratic processes have allocated power to people other than themselves.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m still working on figuring out why those qualifications that spring from deep reservoirs of naked ambition would make them better commissioners than the ones we currently have.<\/p>\n

If these 4 challengers had been brought forward by some other process than their own lust for power, I would be more impressed.\u00a0 If any of them had actually introduced new constructive ideas into the public discourse of the county, I would be more impressed.\u00a0 If any of them had built a campaign on some other foundation than merely turning every pre-existing public precept into a negative hammer for bludgeoning the commissioners, I would be more impressed.<\/p>\n

The Democrats among them have promised to collect more tax money.\u00a0 There they go again.\u00a0 And the newly minted Republicans just want to govern, especially Rowland.\u00a0 He wants so badly to govern that he made his own political party, though it\u2019s not an official political party.\u00a0 It\u2019s just a pretend party that can\u2019t legally endorse candidates or issues.\u00a0 And there\u2019s no internal voting or representation mechanism.\u00a0 He\u2019s the king of his club, which is ironic when you think about all the lip service he pays to the Constitution.\u00a0 As for Ross, he kind of reminds me of WC Fields, which would be great if his purpose was to entertain.\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe he should reconsider his purpose.<\/p>\n

I hope Jerry Bishop makes good money off this bunch for all the newsprint he\u2019s giving them.\u00a0 As a newly minted Republican Committee Person, Jerry\u2019s taken a strange tack here in turning his fishwrap into a quasi-official organ for local liberal candidates.\u00a0 It\u2019s a free country and more power to him, but it\u2019s definitely a weird turn.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been away for a while and am still getting un-jet-lagged.\u00a0 I have no desire to chase these contenders around the block, as if any of them had brought meritorious arguments to the table worth a rebuttal, only to end up exactly where we started, them still beating their sets of empty drums.\u00a0 It\u2019s, apparently, what they do.<\/p>\n

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Judging by their column inches of campaign text in the Prairie Times this week, Lark, Jill, Robert, and Larry want to be commissioner real bad.\u00a0 They all have an ability to interpret random public events in a light most favorable to their candidacy.\u00a0\u00a0 They all appear to need power.\u00a0 They all appear greatly disturbed that […]<\/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-2962","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\/2962","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=2962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}