{"id":521,"date":"2008-03-13T10:41:57","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T17:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2008\/03\/13\/pre-assembly-picks\/"},"modified":"2008-03-23T00:34:03","modified_gmt":"2008-03-23T07:34:03","slug":"pre-assembly-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2008\/03\/pre-assembly-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"a balanced BOCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3\/22\/08 note:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Since commissioners are elected at large in the county, It looks like the petition requirements are too high of a threshold for Schroeder, Neumann or Thayer to petition on to the primary ballot.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>It looks like Valdez wouldn\u2019t need so many signatures to petition on, however, he\u2019d have to do so as something other than a Republican or Democrat.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>So, it\u2019s probably safe to assume that Schwab and Goetz will sit two of the commissioners seats, and it\u2019s still a horse race between Wyer, Shipper, and Thomasson for the third seat.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Andy\u2019s a nice enough guy, probably not enough executive skill for me.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Shipper, former lobbyist, probably too hooked up for me.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Thomasson, all about transparency, will he remain so once he\u2019s on the inside?<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Perhaps we shall see. <span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/commish-picks.jpg\" title=\"Commissioner picks\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/commish-picks.jpg\" alt=\"Commissioner picks\" height=\"238\" width=\"522\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3\/22\/08 note: Since commissioners are elected at large in the county, It looks like the petition requirements are too high of a threshold for Schroeder, Neumann or Thayer to petition on to the primary ballot.\u00a0 It looks like Valdez wouldn\u2019t need so many signatures to petition on, however, he\u2019d have to do so as something [&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-521","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\/521","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=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}