Most Americans agree that the record spending we are witnessing in Washington is inexcusable. Most Southerners would agree to add insult to injury President Obama, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Majority leader of the Senate Harry Reid and their fellow Democrats are using (or abusing) the government’s power and assets to help their own career. But do Liberty County voters recognize many of our elected Democratic officeholders have been no different here?
If you live in the Hardin area and you see Lee Groce’s crew blacktopping a private driveway or part of a private road, who do you think is paying for the material and the man hours to do that? Where did he get the record amount s of money he has had the last few years? If you listen to him or the other longtime veteran of commissioners’ court, Melvin Hunt, they will say that the appraisal district raised the values of taxpayers’ homes and their property and the result was the taxpayer had a higher bill to pay at tax time. And then this dynamic duo of Democratic Party deception will probably brag that it could have been a lot worse but they refused to raise the effective rate. What heroes they are for that... right?
These commissioners have been taking our money and blaming someone else and then spending part of that money to buy votes for their re-election. Just like Obama, Reid, and Pelosi. They think we are all dumb hayseeds so they continue to use their office to buy enough votes so that there will always be a majority of voters to re-elect them. But Liberty County knows good and well that these same commissioners could lower the effective rate and counter the higher appraisals so that taxes do not go up. But instead of doing that their 2011 budget indicates they will increase their spending in meteoric/Obama style!
Wouldn’t almost all of us be better off if we sent less of our paycheck down to the tax office and spent our money the way we wanted to rather than depending on politicians? Most of us pay for improving our own property and don’t want to chip in on improving the property of friends and beneficiaries of the people that tell us how wonderful these politicians are. Most of us don’t need to have worked hard for some officeholder so we can get special treatment with developing our land or a legal problem. Most of us look at Washington DC these days and we reject this use of our government.
True to the other part of the Obama formula of how to use government assets to rule and reign over a conservative electorate, our community is also the victim of huge amounts of wasted spending and wasted man hours as District Attorney Mike Little ignores very serious criminal activity and uses the power of his office to perpetuate his and other people’s political and business interests. Unfortunately, most of our hard working community has no way of knowing this is happening. Without a front row seat and personal observation this article and all that have accused this District Attorney could be seen as mere political rhetoric. But it is not.
We are alleging widespread selective prosecution and much much worse. We encourage Christians to pray that God helps the truth come to light about Mike Little and his crew’s behavior and its connection to Judge Rusty Hight’s court so that even their friends and families will know what has been going on in the shadows of our local government. We expect the coming days to be filled with our tax dollars being used to flex the strong arm of a rogue prosecutor’s office. We expect that to include a continued public relations effort to demonize opposition and to make that office appear to be legitimate and like they are typical crime fighters in a typical local justice system.
It all may seem to those who have never been suspicious about some of our local officials like a way out there conspiracy theory. But to those who have experienced some of the fallout of these people or those that have observed the degree and the extent Obama has done the same thing in the last two years, it is a reality that needs to come to light so we can clean up what should be a government that is for the people, not one that uses the people’s assets to present a deceptive picture of justice and responsibility while actually doing something very different.
9 comments:
Lee Groce has been "doing favors" for years. He will be hard to beat. People that he has used county assets to help are all over saying what all Lee has done for the area. Charlotte Warner can do at least as much as Lee has and without all of this kind of stuff that drives our taxes up.
Lee Groce and Mike Little are what can happen when someone becomes a career politician with little or no opposition for years. They start to think they have done so much for so many that they are entitled to bend the rules a little. Then it begins to go downhill from there.
What about other office holders using our tax dollars for their own benefit. I heard Judge Hight has been setting up at local businesses, during regular business hours, handing out his t-shirts and pot holders all the while using my tax dollars to collect his pay check! Not exactly the type of public service I want to see.
I voted for Brand and now I will vote for Warner.
Go to Daisetta and see what Lee has done to their streets over there. He is sure to get all of the 110 votes from there.
I seen his dump trucks and road machine installing a drive way on E105 near the county line between Moss Hill and Batson.Thats the States job it a State road.
Yes it is a State Hyway, but is is also two more votes for Lee.
A newspaper article---I object to everyone saying Obama and Congress are spending money like a drunken sailor. As a former drunken sailor, i quit when i ran out of money!
ten four, on the drunken sailor. Next they'll be having a girl in every port. Oops, sorry! That was the Clinton administration (or was it a champion golfer?)
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