The position Cindy Meadows has held and for which she seeks re-election entails how she manages the affairs of our county. Her record in office inspires confidence that she not only knows how to do that job well and honestly, but also that she can be depended on to do so in the future. She is by far better qualified and more experienced than Mr. Anderson, and she has the educational, professional, and political experience we need.
Her decisions about managing her own money and investments are purely personal matters so long as they do not negatively impinge her performance of the duties and discharge of the responsibilities of the pubic office we have entrusted her. If she made an investment of her own money in a market that was peaking, she joins a long list of people across the country who got shafted by the hucksters running the show at the national level. I care about her managing my tax dollars and yours. To date, she's earned my vote to continue doing so. Of the incumbents, she stands alone in that regard.
While I from time to time have my differences with Cindy's decisions, I believe that on balance she is not only head and shoulders the best of our BCC but also the kind of intelligent, competent, honest and qualified individual we need heading up our local government. If you examine the list of her contributors, you will not see evidence of any organized interest group. You will instead see a panoply of individuals, not businesses by and large, people whose common self-interest is good government beholden to all, not to the local powers that be.
Cindy has earned my respect and my vote, and I look forward to marking my ballot for her, Bill Fletcher and Melanie Nipper so that Walton County can move away from the politics as usual that has inflicted itself upon so many of its victims. Our citizens need to be beneficiaries, not victims, of the conduct of local government. Smear campaigns by the self-interested to the contrary (Grand Jury report as exhibit A), Cindy has comported herself with honor. Would that all local politicians were like her!