The Walton County Visioning page does not have "members" its a Facebook Group. Anyone can ask to be on the group and 99.9% are accepted. They don't take in anonymous or fake Facebook personalities but pretty much anyone who wants in gets access to the Group. For the record I am not an admin of the page.
Well Dave...I beg to differ with you in regard to what that page/group is all about but...the bottom line is, it is heavily
moderated and
censored by SoWal democrats who have closed and removed entire threads that could have created REAL dialogue and meaningful change in Walton County. Instead they allowed C. Jones and T. Andersons' fan club to run roughshod over anyone who disagreed with them They also closed and/or deleted entire topics that could have helped people make their own informed decisions in regard to how they should cast their votes in the primaries. In fairness though, if the best political opinions that I saw there in the short few days I was a member of the group came from Robert Nelson and C. Jones niece and kids (now grown) who went to school with my daughter...well, it is what it is!! We are not talking about the brightest bulbs in the pack or folks that are more "enlightened"...just "good ole boys/gals".
These are also the same Sowal dems who fought tooth and nail to remove a flag at the Courthouse that they were "offended" by it while sitting at home on their computers typing pretty little letters to the Commissioners regarding why it should be removed, who never attended ANY of the meetings or demonstrations about the issue and whose only real effort was armchair quarterbacking.
<--- That comment also applies verbatim to the hired vs elected superintendent issue. One of the most VOCAL proponents of that debacle couldn't have been bothered to even attend a School Board meeting about the issue, where she was supposed to speak....but I bet the school board was inundated with pretty little emails from the comfy of her armchair.
In regard to the incorporation issue, I don't really have a dog in that fight because I simply don't care. I think in reality that it would probably be best thing that ever happened for NoWal because then the BCC could actually focus on issues here in the north end rather than trying to pacify the same NIMBY group literally controlling the visioning group page. It would probably have benefited the incorporation issue better financially as far as donations are concerned if the NMIBY group had not pi$$ed off so many folks about all these other issues but that's just a hunch on my part.
I also owe you a "Thank You" for going to bat for me when I got "banned" from the group but I knew going in that I was not going to last more than a few days! It's part of the reason I hesitated for almost a year to even join. Before the NIMBI's start with the defense of their actions let me also say that I was "warned" a few days prior but because those NIMBI's were NOT "friends" on my FB page I never saw the warnings until days (almost a week) after they removed me from the group. When I did finally see them, I did tell the 2 who sent me msgs my exact sentiments of what I thought about "their" visions for the rest of us and the comments had something to do with keeping their heads where the sun don't shine and continue their armchair quarterbacking. But thank you Dave R.
I think I prefer to pave my own path to my destiny in Walton County and Nimby groups simply don't work for me and they work even less for citizens in this county who are fighting for open, honest government operated in the Sunshine.