{"id":891,"date":"2008-08-18T20:50:17","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T03:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/18\/summers-almost-over\/"},"modified":"2008-08-20T19:15:59","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T02:15:59","slug":"summers-almost-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/summers-almost-over\/","title":{"rendered":"summer’s almost over"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"August<\/a>\"August<\/a><\/p>\n

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Historical perspectives<\/strong> to consider in this election. File under, “dooming ourselves to repeat history,” or “the more things change, the more they remain the same.”<\/p>\n

2004 Commissioner election 1<\/a><\/p>\n

2004 Commissioner election 2<\/a><\/p>\n

2004 Commissioner election 3<\/a><\/p>\n

2004 Commissioner election 4<\/a><\/p>\n

2004 Commissioner election 5<\/a><\/p>\n

2004 Property tax debate<\/a><\/p>\n

2004 Property tax debate<\/a><\/p>\n

As if history weren’t challenging enough<\/strong>, there’s also outright misrepresentation:<\/p>\n

\"Thomasson<\/a><\/p>\n

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“When John Dunn left office twelve days into the year 2001, there was a $1.6 million surplus.” <\/span><\/p>\n

False<\/em>. Dunn’s parting act was to take $1M of that surplus and allocate it to county employee salary increases. It was Dunn who gutted the county’s reserves. The citizens were right to vote him out after 1 term, and Dunn’s budgetary dead-hand carried forth by Mr. Thomasson should be kept off county finances. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

———————————————————————————————– Historical perspectives to consider in this election. File under, “dooming ourselves to repeat history,” or “the more things change, the more they remain the same.” 2004 Commissioner election 1 2004 Commissioner election 2 2004 Commissioner election 3 2004 Commissioner election 4 2004 Commissioner election 5 2004 Property tax debate 2004 Property tax debate As […]<\/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-891","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\/891","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=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}