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Council Denies Request for Evening Meetings
15 Nov 2009Last week, the Marshall County Council decided by a 5-2 vote to keep the meetings in the morning. This is a disappointing outcome, however; I am pleased that council member Ralph Booker accepted my argument that meeting at 9am excludes 85% of the tax payers from the meetings.
Here is the audio from the November meeting [...]
Night Meetings Empower the People
4 Nov 2009“Freedom is participation in power.” These words were spoken over two-thousand years ago by the Roman orator Cicero. By accepting this definition of freedom, we must also accept that freedom is in jeopardy here in Marshall County. Our County Council and Commissioners choose to meet during the morning hours. According to [...]
Why I'm Running
I believe in transparency and openness. County Council meetings should take place in the evening and not the morning when most people cannot attend. We should have full visibility to Council spending. I firmly believe that the tax payers deserve to know if their money is well spent, or simply wasted.
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