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Oconee Sheriff Candidates Debate Methods of Law Enforcement at Packed Political Forum

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The Oconee County Democratic Committee has two meetings (June 21 and July 19) before the GOP Primary on July 31. We welcome any and all candidates, voters, media, and any other interested individuals to ANY AND ALL meetings ANYTIME, be they Republican, Democratic, independent, Green, Libertarian or none of the above.  The only exception to that in the decades I have been involved with the local Democratic party are the annual caucuses, and these are not caucuses. To anyone who has either attended or involved themselves in any of the political forums, God bless you, but for God's sake, they are generally incredibly contrived and boring for the most part. Since the Democratic party has no candidates this time around, and we would like to be involved in the local political process, we have encouraged our more active and voting members to "cross over" and select a Republican ballot to get our two cents worth in the local political process. I have done this for every Prima...

Candidates Political Forum Scheduled for June 14

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Oconee County Sheriff Scott Berry just called to let us know he will be addressing the Oconee County Democratic Committee meeting 7:00 pm Thursday, June 21, 2012 at Government Annex at 1291 Greensboro Highway along with Oconee County Board of Commissioners chairman Melvin Davis and candidate Tammy Gilland. We will expect no more than five more of oratory from the candidates and have a large gong set up to ring every time they mention the word "conservative" (just kidding about that last one). But the choice of words is always something I pay attention, along with diction and brevity. I would challenge the candidates to demonstrate to us their independence and difference from the standard Republican orthodoxy and perhaps make distinctions on their positions even from those who they are at the same meeting at. Then again, they could discuss American Idol or the Hatfields and McCoys if they really wanted to.

Too bad that the First Friday was cancelled last night - lots of people turned out any way and at least a couple of candidates did as well.  The OCAF event was packed as usual. So in this first early edition of awards - most tongue in cheek - go to: Most illegible signs - hands down, Sheriff Scott Berry, the Old West scripted font is quaint and the brown and tan color scheme make them almost impossible to read from a distance of more than a dozen feet. This has also been the only sign to stolen from my yard, and so far unable to replace despite a couple of attempts. I have seen some Berry signs with an extra outer frame that makes them somewhat easily to notice but not necessarily easier to discern the message. Next time get an graphic artist to consult before pulling the trigger on any massive purchase. And to the miscreant who stole my sign and left the metal stand in the grass, may the affluent effluent of a thousand septic tanks fester outside your broken bedroom window. Mo...

So it seems there is an imposter or at least semi-anonymous poster on the Athens Banner-Herald website onlineathens.com who goes by the seemingly innocuous name of "Obama2012" that has made the same exact post four times in four different articles (all concerning the Regina Quick-Doug McKillip primary race) in an obvious non-whisper campaign at an attempt at somehow backwards besmirching of Regina Quick and questioning her personal live. There are references to Log Cabin Republicans repeated over and over again in this person's stilted and incongruous post that have almost nothing to do with the tenor or subject of the articles except that it includes Regina Quick. This reeks of sleazy attacks and dirty tricks, and I have a pretty good idea of who is engineering this stunt (just can't prove it yet). It is par for the course for the GOP to begin to cannibalize their own who does not subscribe to a certain established orthodoxy. The primary season is beginning to b...

The Oconee County Democratic Committee would like to announce that their next two regular monthly meetings will be open to any and all candidates who have Oconee County, Georgia in their district to briefly speak at 7:00 pm  gatherings Thursdays, June 21st and July 19th at the Oconee County Government Annex at 1291 Greensboro Highway. For more information or to reserve a spot, please call chair Dan Matthews at 706-769-1131 or 706-372-1062

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There has always seem to be some kind of division in local politics that seems to boil down to: There is a city next to us called Athens, and we can cooperate with those in Clarke County for our mutual prosperity We will ignore Athens in everything, and everyone who lives there can go to Hell Obviously this is an oversimplification of Oconee County, Georgia politics and its perception regionally, but there has always been a very palatable contempt of all things Clarke County in the current leadership of Oconee County Board of Commission. I think this attitude of being an uncooperative neighbor has been to the detriment of all concerned. The University of Georgia is the economic engine that fuels at least the five counties surrounding Clarke, despite what some of the politicians in those counties wish to believe. Chuck Horton has been the Police Chief for the University of Georgia. He does not kowtow to Dr. Michael Adams or Mayor Heidi Davison or anyone else. He is a pragmatic pro...