Tuesday’s election was obviously a huge socio-political Tsunami wave all over the country. Here in Jackson County a few ignorant folks attempted to claim that the routed commissioners were defeated by a small group of “gadflies” and consequently, because of the outspokenness of this “small group” the voters followed zombie-like in lock-step behind these rabble-rousers. Reality couldn’t be further from the truth.
The people of Jackson County are (and have been) angry at our so-called leaders for some time regarding their spendthrift policies and for how they have allowed the manager to literally go out of control and in some ways create his own little fiefdom of power while the chair attempted to create for himself a cult of personality hobnobbing with bigwigs while vacationing in Raleigh and Washington D.C. on the citizens’ hard earned dollars.
If the Tea Party Patriots of Jackson County (and other unaffiliated voters) hold the in-coming commissioners’ feet to the fire on the core issues of smaller, more efficient government, lower taxes, and less intrusion into people’s lives than maybe the culture of quid pro quo can at least be weakened substantially in the coming months.
The bottom line is that we, the citizens demand that our elected and unelected office holders are completely open, honest, and accountable in their performing of the public’s business and that they return to the constitutional rule of law before the inevitable conflagration occurs in our country.
No one who hasn’t been attending commissioners meetings, doing the basic investigations on issues (many of them shady), and speaking out in the public forum (not just the occasional letter to the editor or a bellicose comment on an Internet forum) can have a clue about what has happened in politics here in Jackson County in 2010. Armed with this basic ignorance and blasé ‘know-it-all’ attitude they certainly won’t be able to influence what may happen in Jackson County in the future also.
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