Rope -A- Dope

The Rope-a-dope is a boxing style commonly associated with Muhammad Ali from the Rumble in the Jungle against George Foreman. The rope-a-dope is usually used against an opponent that has superior power; and it is most effectively performed after aggravating and agitating your opponent and then, in Ali's classic pose, lying against the ropes, and allowing the opponent to hit you over and over again. Then late in the fight when the opponent is confident he will win, the boxer has reserved all of his energy to exploit a counter-attack based on all of the flaws he observed while he was being pummeled. Now “the dope” is a sitting duck, his superior power is gone and his opponent knows all of his weaknesses, saving the exploitation of them until the end.
Liberty County has been dominated by Democrats since before our grandparents were children and some have bragged it would always been that way. Some have used and abused their power to line their pockets and to stomp any opposition through the years, but the veterans of this fight for the soul of Liberty County have collected a ring full of knowledge about the weaknesses of these “dopes’. That information and experience may never get the credit for the downfall of what is already a much much weaker local Democrat party, but in the late rounds it leaves the former Donkey party powerbrokers falling hard.

The newest example of some of the pathetic political maneuvering the good ole boys have been doing for years is currently under review by Liberty Dispatch. For years outgoing Democrat officials have taken advantage of the September 30th state mandated budget year. After their defeat or retirement and much to the harm of taxpayers, Democrats have become infamous for spending most of their budget in the interim months – leaving their successor with insufficient funds to do their job.

Liberty Dispatch has already revealed how the District Attorney, Mike Little, has pressured and intimidated commissioners into more than doubling his budget (while successfully indicting and convicting fewer criminals). We have also discovered that Mike Little’s budget is ridiculously higher then the budget of the County Attorney’s office, even though they handle about 80% fewer cases.

Now we are looking into how budgets were blown right after local Democrats were sent home by the voters. We know what we will find because when these arrogant political opportunists were at the pinnacle of their power they felt no need to hide their vulnerabilities. They must have thought “no one will believe you and KSHN and The Vindicator will never allow you to print it anyway.” But they did it,; and they are doing it. Taxpayers deserve better and so do the candidates who win election and begin their time as public servants.

Stay tuned voters for the damage from last election; and be vigilante as we watch what happens when we throw the rest of the bums out next election as we finish “roping the dopes.”