Congratulations, Linda!

Dear Linda:

Congratulations on your rejoining the rest of the free world!

The voters did you a favor.

Finally, you’ll be able to live wherever you want, like Harold Bost and Greg Powers.

You won’t have to worry about getting a speeding ticket and its getting all over the newspapers.

You won’t have to file public statements disclosing virtually all that you own. (Fortunately for you, our local reporters don’t yet know how to find them.) You’ll also be free to invest in land ready for development or purchase by the school board. You’ll be free to invest in the stock of companies that do business with the county.

You’ll be free of the press.

You’ll also be free of the uncouth and poorly educated people who have nothing better to do than to hound political figures. You might dare answer your e-mail again one day.

You won’t have to beg for money for political campaigns, and you won’t have to attend dreadful political meetings. You’ll be free of the parasites who ask for favors.

You’ll also be free of having to attend meetings with other elected officials who won’t prepare for meetings by reading the materials and who can’t focus on the subject at hand. You won’t even have to go to meetings!

Nobody will ever accuse you of violating our Georgia ethics laws, as happened to Commissioner Horgan when, in a fit of overenthusiasm, he paid for ads in the paper without registering with the State Ethics Commission. You won’t even care about the State Ethics Commission.

You will have to put up from time to time with county employees whose work performance is not the best. But it won’t be on a regular basis like it was in your commissioner’s job.

You won’t have to contribute to any politician’s campaign (especially your own), and won’t have to make nice with people you dislike, or even kiss babies you find ugly.

Linda, you’re free! Enjoy it.

Your friend, Eyeinvest

First of all Linda

Submitted by lifeinptc on Wed, 08/09/2006 - 8:56am.

You never made nice with anyone. It's also hard to kiss a baby who is screaming for its life to get away from the green eyed monster.

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My my, lifeinptc

Submitted by Basketball Mom on Wed, 08/09/2006 - 1:51pm.

Didn't your momma ever tell you if you didn't have anything nice to say, don't spew your ignorance in a public forum?

Linda, sorry for your loss, for our county's loss. See ya at Trivia!

Team No Friggin Clue

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A little surprised that someone named Baseketball Mom

Submitted by lifeinptc on Wed, 08/09/2006 - 2:08pm.

would bring my mother into it.

My mom taught me to play well with others, until they become so vicious they challenge your family, your lively hood and your community's way of life. Then the gloves come off.

I'm sure you've never seen that side of her if you've only seen her at Loco's with her phony smile and politician persona. Having that in mind I should ask your forgiveness for seeming so harsh.

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