Commissioner Brannon in hot water over email

[Bob Wells]

Yeah I agree, there are quite a few folks who make claims including friends of Ms Harris and I only assume her little army who say such and such. I get it the BCC is broke, they violate the law, obviously not enough to bother the State Attorney or Law Enforcement, but hey this ain't Crestview.

 

[Annie66]

I love the comments of the thin skinned apologists who seem to be the spokesmen for these small time politicians.

 

[WaltonIsOne]

I love the comments of the thin skinned apologists who seem to be the spokesmen for these small time politicians.

Excellent observation Annie66. Those to whom you refer, more often, than not, tend to be feeding off the same taxpayer funded "trough" as referenced in R. Shaffer's article in today's April 21st edition of the Walton Sun.

As long as Walton County Government remains the county's largest employer, and its employees continue to be paid salaries/benefits "packages" approximately 22-25% higher than the average private industry worker in the county, we will continue to observe those who portray our local government's "employees" as "serving" county citizens.

Whereas in reality most of the county "trough feeders" are "serving" themselves to hard earned taxpayer money.

This point is further exemplified when the County/BCC itself funds attorneys to defend the actions of the BCC in response to the BCC members time after time after time, violating the law.

Sooner or later, the conscious and repeatable violations of the law by BCC members will be viewed as a "crime" as their actions essentially "steal" our tax dollars from other critical county services budgets.

Though I must confess that I possess the naive belief that at a minimum, 20% of the county's employees, are truly interested serving our county's citizenry and its visitors.

In the end, maybe the best and most effective response to the ill actions of the BCC members is to continue to drag their family names through the mud in an effort to make these BCC members and their families famous here in the county.

This sort of approach is the equivalent to "Tar and Feathering". Though now, forums such as Sowal, and local news outlets like the Walton Sun and the Defuniak Herald take less time and require no clean-up when compared to the aforementioned Tarring method.

 

[graytonbeachguy]

In the end, maybe the best and most effective response to the ill actions of the BCC members is to continue to drag their family names through the mud in an effort to make these BCC members and their families famous here in the county.

This sort of approach is the equivalent to "Tar and Feathering". Though now, forums such as Sowal, and local news outlets like the Walton Sun and the Defuniak Herald take less time and require no clean-up when compared to the aforementioned Tarring method.

This does not sound like the moral high-ground that commission critics should take in this matter. I think the commission has provided ample ammunition without resorting to personal attacks or smear campaigns.

 

[Zebraspots]

I must have missed some good gossip, as I haven't heard anything about their families, just their screw-ups.

 

[Annie66]

Last time I checked there were something like 38,000 registered voters in the county and more than 20,000 Republicans. The Republican insiders with support from wealthy supporters will continue with businesss as usual. And we all know that money buys elections. So stupid suggestions that some ordinary people run for office are mindless blather. When the votes are counted, the candidates with the most funding will win. All I can do is vote. I plan to vote for but one incumbent and that's a NPA office. In November, I will vote for the one Democrat who has qualified to run for office.

 

[Zebraspots]

Money may have bought past elections, but it is not at all expensive to keep voters informed in the internet age.

I don't think the issue is Democrat vs. Republican (6 of one, half dozen of the other), but same old shady politicians vs. true public servants.

We ALWAYS have a choice. Let's hope we choose better in this election.

 

[tailwagger]

Nice post!

 

[Andy A]

Information is readily available to us in the internet age. One should bear in mind that on the internet there is almost as much misinformation as viable information. It is hard, sometimes, to discern the difference. Let your personal experience and intelligence prevail if you think it is correct and valid.

 

[WaltonIsOne]

In fact such a suggestion is taking the "moral high-ground".

1. Moral High-Ground Approach - In actual fact, by pointing out which/all acts by the BBC members that are unlawful and unethical is taking the moral high ground as the basis of professional and lawful conduct standards are clearly stated in Florida law. Simply measuring the BCC members against these standards and presenting the results to the public in public Forums and the press is in support of what you suggest. My personal contributions in the Forums and the press are consistent with this approach.

2. To Smear, in one definition, means a "slanderous defamation" of one's character. One can not logically conclude that publicising the "family name" of a BCC member, who has failed to meet the standards detailed in item 1 above over and over and over again, and publicising the family name of such a BCC member repeatedly is considered any form of a Smear. As reporting the BCC members' well documented, well substantiated and widely known unlawful, unprofessional and unethical behavior is not slanderous. The BCC member(s) would simply be "defamed" as a result of their unlawful, unethical and unprofessional actions. A result of the BCC commissioners' own doing.

3. Neither one or two above can be considered personal attacks.

4. Families should be shamed when one of their own has been determined to have violated the law, acts unethically, fails to perform their job they are being paid to do and acts in an unprofessional way. This is no less different when you view a local newspaper with reports of recent convictions of those individuals that have committed civil and/or criminal infractions of the law.