Posted on 04/22/2023 5:52:20 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
WEST OLIVE, Mich. — The eight new members of the Ottawa County Board of Commissioners had run for office promising to “thwart tyranny” in their lakeside Michigan community of 300,000 people.
In this case the oppressive force they aimed to thwart was the county government they now ran. It was early January, their first day in charge. An American flag held down a spot at the front of the board’s windowless meeting room. Sea-foam green carpet covered the floor.
The new commissioners, all Republicans, swore their oaths of office on family Bibles. And then the firings began. Gone was the lawyer who had represented Ottawa County for 40 years. Gone was the county administrator who oversaw a staff of 1,800. To run the health department, they voted to install a service manager from a local HVAC company who had gained prominence as a critic of mask mandates.
As the session entered its fourth hour, Sylvia Rhodea, the board’s new vice chair, put forward a motion to change the motto that sat atop the county’s website and graced its official stationery. “Whereas the vision statement of ‘Where You Belong’ has been used to promote the divisive Marxist ideology of the race, equity movement,” Rhodea said.
And so began a new era for Ottawa County. Across America, county governments provided services so essential that they were often an afterthought. Their employees paved roads, built parks, collected taxes and maintained property records. In an era when Americans had never seemed more divided and distrustful, county governments, at their best, helped define what remains of the common good.
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Looks like the community got pissed at the GVT forced mandates and probably the forced gay agenda. Some noteworthy quotes:
"helped define what remains of the common good."
" Department heads canceled implicit bias training sessions"
" “I am sick unto death of all the Jesus talk,” she said to cheers from the other side. “We are here for the common good.”"
No paywall at link, long article.
"Washingsnot Pest" fabulists...
De Tocqueville. I believe, analyzed that Americans believed in local government and there in lies our strength.
Also return there to visit 2 or 3 times a year and let me tell you they were lockstep with the COVID crap under Whitmer. The real people of the county hated that.
Add into that the relentelss trans/gay caving by county officials and the real conservatives did what they needed to do...organized and took over the board via legitimate elections.
The compost and msn…a doubleheader of duplicity and agenda driven propaganda.
Interesting.
Good news, neighboring County.
Started reading...after three sentences or so, the bull-Obama light started flickering. Went to the source. MSN?
Feggedabowdit.
Leftists hate it when it is done to them what they do to others. I love it!
Because we’re not control freaks, our side has been poorly-represented in local governments. That has to change.
What’s GVT?
Agreed, just what we need in Michigan in more counties. And Thank You for your service!
government
Thank you.
The new commissioners, all Republicans, swore their oaths of office on family Bibles. And then the firings began.
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I’d call that...
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... A good start.
Better than that, how about “The Washington Pist”?
They want to make that all sounds tacky or ominous, but it's just life. Even Democrat politicians have to pretend to have family Bibles on inauguration day.
That local news like this is even on the WAPO’s radar tells us that the Dems fear a move towards democracy. Watch for national Lawfare resources to be brought in to cause trouble for the county. The teacher’s union will still have considerable power over public education and costs.
It’s got possibilities. :)
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