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Media says voting threatens democracy
Snip of The evil elected officials committed
Siders wrote, “In their first meeting, the new board members adopted a series of measures that changed things in Ottawa County. They fired the county administrator and replaced him with John Gibbs, a former Trump administration official, Christian missionary, failed congressional candidate and election denier who once suggested women should not have the right to vote. They ran out their corporate counsel. They closed the county’s office of diversity, equity and inclusion. They picked for their new public health officer — pending state approval — a safety manager at an HVAC service company who, during the covid pandemic, suggested ivermectin and neti-pots instead of social distancing and masks. And they rewrote the county motto.”
That commissioners cleaned house should be modus operandi for newly elected public officials. The county had the same lawyer for 40 years. That is easily 30 years too long no matter how good he is.
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Media says voting threatens democracy
The Jeff Bezos Post sent two reporters Grand Haven, Michigan, a town of 11,011 people and the county seat of Ottawa County. Their job was to do his newspaper’s version of a story in Politico in February, “What It Looks Like When the Far Right Takes Control of Local Government.”
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