Where is the lack of transparency?\u00a0 This BOCC broadcasts and publishes everything they do in an official capacity.\u00a0 Where is the financial mismanagement?\u00a0 This BOCC has not increased overall county indebtedness, has balanced the budget, and has met functional county obligations with less revenue while preserving proportionally more county jobs.\u00a0 Where are the closed doors?\u00a0 This BOCC allows for public input at each of their meetings.<\/p>\n
Take off the pink colored glasses and you’ll see a set of able administrators doing a decent job in the midst of an attempted strong-arm takeover that has thoroughly corrupted the two-party system in Elbert County and abused every available county process to create disruption, foment division, and generate a false sense of urgency that things are mismanaged.<\/p>\n
This coalition of freelance power seekers brings an overall agenda made up of many subordinate agendas.\u00a0 All of them fall into a leftist basket of tricks.\u00a0 Scratch the surface of any one of them and you’ll find environmentalism, smart growth, anti-industrialism, and dictatorial zoning power, all waiting for the green light to unleash their do-gooding upon the county.<\/p>\n
It is most disturbing that they hold themselves out as representatives of the people at large, but they do not follow a process that empowers the people at large.\u00a0 From the start of this campaign season they’ve attempted to shanghai a single party – the Republicans – through subversive manipulation of Colorado’s flawed caucus system.\u00a0 When subversion failed them, they went public with their plan and called for open corruption of the Republican primary system in an attempt to dilute Republican interest in their party, and put it in service of their leftist agenda.<\/p>\n
Liberal publishers in the county, and there are many both in print and on-line, excuse this attempted coupe with ameliorative language about why we should all just get along.\u00a0 This has been tried many times with the left, but appeasement has never worked.\u00a0 It’s led to wars, a shifting legal standard that has gutted much of the constitutional foundation of the country, the dismemberment of religious liberty, coarsening moral decline, gaming the public coffers, and a reduction of liberty.<\/p>\n
Listen to the loudest voices in the public spectrum this primary season.\u00a0 The ones you hear the loudest all share the agendas.\u00a0 They intend to do big things to you and me.\u00a0 Lots of things.\u00a0 Waving their various and sundry banners, they want licenses to direct us.\u00a0 They all fundamentally misconstrue the proper limits of government in America.<\/p>\n
Interestingly, they’re all so steeped in their leftist mythologies that they actually think they can direct you and me, and that it’s a good thing.\u00a0 As a result, they’ve become shameless.\u00a0 They no longer hide their fascist inclination.\u00a0 Now they wear it proudly.\u00a0 Like I said, wars have been fought against this sort of thing.<\/p>\n
Good intentions are admirable, but when those good intentions lead to compunction, force, and the execution of government power, they’ve become a means not justified by the ends.<\/p>\n
I say we shut down the left at the polls in Elbert County, whatever party they happen to call themselves at any given juncture.\u00a0 I say we focus on limiting government in all its capacities and intentions.\u00a0 He who governs least, governs best.<\/p>\n
Look at the candidates.\u00a0 Judge them by this standard when you go to the polls.\u00a0 Elect men, not agendas.<\/p>\n
If the left want to impose their agendas, let them take their agendas, issue by issue, to the ballot box for the voters to decide.\u00a0 Don’t award activists carrying baggage quasi judicial authority with a commissioner seat in Elbert County.<\/p>\n
In America, consent of the governed is measured by a vote, not by lip service from a commissioner who listens while mouthing bromides about transparency.\u00a0 Vote for commissioners who enable the people to govern themselves by bringing important county issues to the ballot box.<\/p>\n
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