Frick, Frack and Frady drop a bombshell.

You ask, Who are Frick, Frack and Frady? For the sake of these comments, Frick stands for Eric Maxwell, Frack stands for Jack Smith and of course Frady is none other than Herb Frady. Frick and Frack are our two newest Fayette County commissioners who took office in January 2007. Frady has been a county commissioner for far too long.

Frady and his special interest friends have been kept in check for the last eight years. The majority of the Fayette County commissioners (Dunn, Wells, Pfeifer and Bost) during that eight years did not support Frady’s special interest wishes.

Unfortunately, Frady now has his two puppy dogs in Frick and Frack that seem to be responding to his every command. Anything Frady wants, Frady gets. After having been kept in his special interest cage for the last eight years, he is exploding with caged-up energy.

He is literally destroying many things that made Fayette County the place that lived up to the slogan, “Fayette County, where quality is a lifestyle.”

With Frick and Frack in his pocket, Frady has been able to fire Chris Venice, the county administrator, a long-term, dedicated, honest and professional county employee. This was followed close behind by the firing of Bill McNally, the best and most respected county attorney in the state of Georgia.

Then on Thursday night, Aug. 23, 2007, Frick, Frack and Frady destroyed an airtight approach to rezonings that was keeping down high-density zonings in Fayette County.

Fayette County has had a number of court challenges to low-density rezonings decisions over the last eight years. On Aug. 23, that was all lost.

Frick, Frack and boss man Frady approved a one-acre rezoning right in the middle of a five-acre zoned area in north Fayette County.

Folks, remember a few weeks back when the newspapers ran a story about Fayette County having the second slowest rate of growth of all the counties in the metro area? That slower growth was by design. It started eight and one-half years ago when Greg Dunn and Linda Wells joined Harold Bost on the Fayette County Board of Commissioners.

In 1999, building permits fell by 9.6 percent in unincorporated Fayette County. That decline in building permits was followed by another 22.5 percent in 2000. And, in 2001, building permits fell by still another 25.6 percent. The number of building permits have remained near the 2001 level through 2006.

That is why Fayette County went from one of the fastest growing counties in the metro area to the second slowest in just eight years. That slower growth rate had a great deal to do with the lowering of your county tax millage rate of the last few years

You can now kiss those good old days goodbye. You can thank Frick, Frack and Frady for that.

Now, let’s go back to the firing of Chris Venice and Bill McNally. Both of these individuals have been dedicated to the betterment of Fayette County for many, many years. Apparently, Herb Frady has been working on his strategy for some time now.

It appears he saw the dedication and honesty of Chris Venice and Bill McNally as potential hurdles in his path to ruling over his new kingdom and doing anything he wants in any way he wants. Thanks to his two new subjects, Eric Maxwell and Jack Smith, he was able to clear these people out of his way.

So what else has Mr. Frady been able to do?

1. The published County Commission meeting agendas are continually void of important issues that Mr. Frady want to keep below the radar screen. Then, once the meetings are underway, Mr. Frady or one of his cronies introduces the issue from the floor. That way, the public is unaware that the issue will be discussed.

By doing it this way, a lot of things they want are slipped in without public notice and we the people do not find out about it.

2. Mr. Frady personally redrew the three county commission districts. Frick and Frack voted to send Frady’s personal proposal on to the Justice Department without it ever having a public hearing.

It is no surprise that Mr. Frady drew several of his potential opponents out of his district so he would not have to face these viable candidates in the 2008 election. Of course, it is not a surprise that his sidekicks, Eric Maxwell and Jack Smith, sucked up and endorsed Mr. Frady’s handiwork without hesitation.

Folks, I am afraid we are in for a downward spiral in Fayette County. It appears that Frick, Frack and Frady are more interested in Mr. Frady’s personal agenda, and getting Mr. Frady reelected in 2008 than they are in what’s best for you, me and the other citizens of Fayette County.

Special interests will have a field day as long as Herb Frady is King. Yes, I know Frady is not the official commission chairman. However, the official commission chairman, Jack Smith, is not showing leadership. Instead, he takes his lead from King Frady.

Ladies and gentlemen, the only hope we have to stopping Frick, Frack and Frady is to get the full story out to all citizens of Fayette County so we can all bring pressures to bear on them to stop their unacceptable actions. We can stop them during the election in 2008 by defeating Frady during that election. However, if we don’t stop these guys NOW, they will do so much more damage before the end of 2008 when Frady’s current term ends.

Will you help spread the word? We must act NOW before it is too late.

Harold Bost

Fayette County, Ga.

[Bost is a former county commission chairman.]