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Originally Posted by tophcfa
The poor guy is the poster child selected to put everyone on notice of what will happen to them if they cross the entity that controls Sumter County on an issue that is deemed important. After the horror he has been dragged through, he would be crazy to want to go back to trying to represent “the people”.
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I have the feeling you are correct and in the MUCH broader topic of our whole political system. People of honor, ethics, and sincere desire to sacrifice for others (think of our forefathers who gave up lucrative careers, and suffered financially because in their absence doing the people's business, forming a constitution to free us once and for all, their families could not plant and harvest sufficient crops as they had previously done. They (the first politicians) had no private jets, they had to take their own horses (a further blow to those they left at home on the farm), they had no "hotel" allowance, no private chef and dining room for politicians, no gyms, hair salons, drivers, etc. WE, the people, from that point on decided there was no limit to what we bestowed on our own new royalty, and even today we keep adding "perks", more retirement, the best of the best medical care, luxury travel abroad in the best hotels on "junkets" to encourage trade, and so on. And then there is the whole system of lobbyist dollars. And yet, so many of us are puzzled that the available "pool" of true statesmen, true leaders, is such a filthy cesspool with little for us to choose from ? When you look over the whole panorama, local, state, to nation, judges, representative, commissioners and mayors, do we really propose only the best of the best, those with unbending integrity, true devotion to others rather and self ?