Scenes from a Charter song and dance dedicated to the absentee Mayor
The gathering at High Shoals Elementary School was largely a dog and pony show for the Charter "to move forward" according to State Representative Bob Smith who was requested by oddly absent Mayor Jeff Thoomas and misquoted the vote tally (3-1 vs. 3-2). But otherwise you had an entertaining collection of concerned residents of every stripe, mostly divided into the "I've lived here all my life and the rest of you are just carpetbaggers" in the distinct minority and the more sober and numerous people supporting the Charter including a Vietnam Veteran sporting some fashionable white uniform from the Coast Guard and a couple of the towns council. Mayor Johnny Pritchett of nearby Bishop was in attendance, as was the Mayor of Watkinsville Jim Luken and Oconee County Board of Commissioners chair G. Melvin Davis along with five dozen or so residents of the High Shoals area. The discussions of the audience ranged from fringe zealots screaming about Nazis to most people p...
