The Register-Star today has an editorial about the county executive controversy: "Let Columbia County voters have their say on executive." If you are thwarted by the paywall, the lede says it all:
Here's something for the Columbia County Board of Supervisors to ponder as they continue their efforts to quash a ballot proposition that would create an elected county executive: Their secrecy, negativity and suppression of public input in denying citizens the right to vote on the proposal might be exactly the reason why many residents want a county executive in the first place.
If you signed the petition and are curious to know if your signature was one of many that were challenged, you can find out here, in one of the exhibits that accompanied the lawsuit filed in July 2. Lots of familiar names appear on the list of rejected signatures, many of which it seems were rejected simply because the word Street was omitted or abbreviated by the person signing.
"Sometimes nothing is a real cool hand"
ReplyDelete“MAGA Matt,” as his newfound opponents call him, really screwed the pooch on this one. His best move was to do nothing and let a complicated ballot measure get lost in the mix of everything else that is happening. Instead this foolhardy effort to stop it has just united every anti-Republican in the county, who now have a local and tangible cause to focus their post ‘24 election ire on.
I always say, "Give a Republican plenty of rope, and he'll do the rest." - PJ
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