Our nation is run by two parties, Democrats and Republicans. Our County is predominately Republican. A well known fact in Barry County, if you want to win, you need to be a Republican.
Are we putting the right person in office or just an party affiliation? If a person can say hey I am a Republican just to win, then what are these parties truly for? I understand the core values of each party, but does that party affiliation run the canidate after they are in office, no. Should we as voters be more concerned with the persons values? Should we not be concerned with answers to questions pertaining to our beliefs?
After they are in office what makes them accountantable for their actions? Yes we as voters can do a recall, but if voter turn out is low, how many people do you think will bother with a recall? I think voter turn out is low not because of cold, rain, transportation, but lack of interest in who is on the ballot. I know personally I stare at the ballot and think who are they and what do they believe. Many times there are names I have not heard or read about. As long as there is not a huge scandal we stick with who is doing the job, simply for us it is more convienant.
Most offices are 4 year terms. That is four years we as voters are handing the running of a department over. A department that our taxpaying money is running. Why are we not more concerned with this rather than whose is Demcratic or Republican?
Democrat or Republican it is just a label and nothing more.
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Please join the friends of Tom Evans on Saturday May 10 at 2 pm at the Historical Barry County Courthouse for a re-election kick-off.
Music and refreshments will be provided and the chance to talk to our own Barry County Prosecutor.
There are many Dems in Barry County: they are hiding behind the 'R' so they can get elected. They are called R.I.N.O.'s
According to Wikipedia: The term RINO implies that, despite party affiliation, RINO politicians are not "authentic" Republicans. The label is usually acquired because a politician's political actions, policies, position on certain issues or voting records are considered to be at variance with core Republican beliefs.
We have several RINO's on the Board of Commissioners. I will not name names, they know who they are. Before an election, they 'make nice' with the local party members, come to a meeting or two, and pass themselves off as true Republicans.
After the elections, they are NEVER SEEN AGAIN at meetings, have nothing to do with the local party, and even spend their time at the local Democratic Hall with either the staunch Dems or the newer Progressive Dems groups.
IF the RINO's were brave enough to come out of the closet and run as democrat candidate they would have less opposition then the Republican candidates do.
We do have ONE brave woman who is willing to put her name on the ballot for Drain Commissioner as a Democrat. I wish her luck.
Should it be required that people join they party rather then just say?
If your going to run for office as a Republican, you show have joined the party at the local, state, or national level. Otherwise your just a RINO...
Then how do all the RINO's do this? DOes the Rep. Party just allow a person to show up once and WHALA....they are in? Our true elections in Barry County are in August.
WE don't consider them real Republican's and let everyone know it...If you vote for one of these RINO's then your uninformed and as much to blame as they are.
Nice blogsite. I got here from a link at Agnos blog.
The party thing at the local level is a joke. Neither party influences any votes other than their own. When I ran for Commissioner I was a card-carrying Republican and a contributor to the MIGOP. When the Washington crowd shifted from patriotic advocacy of good government to trying to create an empire of corporate greed, I had to become inactive. The Democrat party offers nothing but noise. Harmonious noise might become music, but so far I've seen their parade rushing up and down every street in every different direction, trying to please everybody at once. I applaud any local Republican officeholder who attends the only public forum in town, in spite of it being hosted by the owners of Dem Hall.
The whole flim-flam about RINOs assumes that you have to belong to a political party, that you have to attend boring meetings dominated by folks with a message nobody listens to, and for people who can't find time to even put their name on a ballot.
Once elected to a county office, none of the work follows any party direction or involvement. The entire primary election can be changed by the simple insertion of a Democrat candidate for an office, but the movie projector would have to be put on pause.
Before I forget, how do you get the accent over the "e". Que chiva!
Here's a potential topic. We have a new attempt starting about "economic development" (BCF, etc.). You could post the details from Bonnie.
My spin is that Hastings could become a mecca for people of retirement age. Everybody else is trying to attract the yuppie crowd and the competition for their big bucks is fierce.
If you read the cut-n-paste in last weekends Reminder, you know that the folks who benefit from misinformation are still trying to convince us old folks that we are about to slide down the slippery slope to death.
In fact, most people over 65 are in great shape and are going to live longer than their parents without searching for a nursing home.
Convincing people that they need a financial advisor to help accumulate the vast sums of money with which to retire is another myth perpetuated by insurance companies.
I could go on and on and on, but start a post and I'll comment.
SO if we have RINOS and if someone does not have to belong to a party to run then why do we have aprties? WHy not just vote for who is bets at the job at the time?
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