Oconee County, GA Politics

Whether this is an oversight or an actual attempt at stifling the flow of information remains to be seen, but because of the criticism of some schools and policies, this blog as well as the official Oconee County Democratic Committee website are currently blocked from view at the computers of the Oconee County School system. The Oconee County Republican party's website has been approved for viewing at school's terminals and laptops. Dr. Hale told me today that the political websites need to be part of the curriculum or requested by a teacher at the school. And some gutter snipe removed the cardboard from a Scott Berry sign in my yard, but they let me keep the metal stantion. Don't suppose it was any of the kids down the street whose parents have multiple signs for his opponent, would you?

There is something rotten in Watkinsville, and the stink is coming out of the Oconee County Board of Education office on Third Street. Tonight they decided to keep someone off their ruling educational group because this person belongs to a different political party from those is command. Oconee County resident and previously qualified Democratic candidate Carter Strickland was denied an opportunity to replace recently resigned Tom Breedlove on the Board of Education by the very same people who set up the criteria for him to be in consideration for it in the first place. The BOE sent the signal to the children in school that it is OK to change the rules halfway through the process, especially if there is a voice of dissent from the other party. The Board of Education set itself up for scrutiny from the Department of Justice for ignoring its own previously set standards in direct opposition to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and 1975.  After setting up a standard of allowing the fou...