Oconee County, GA Politics

Does anyone else recognize the irony of anti-tax group taking government paved roads to a government paid facility to protest the actions and annual payment for our government? I hate paying taxes just as much as the most red faced or neck people who did not have to work yesterday in Oconee Veterans Park. I did read the speech of Oconee County G.O.P. chair Jay Hanley and it was very welcoming, polite, and not the least bit inflammatory or incendiary. I think you can find it on his facebook page. I will keep scouring the internet for more coverage of the Oconee County event yesterday. I know if Sheriff Berry had his way there would be no political protests at this park, but ultimately I think that is a Board of Commissioners ~ Oconee County Parks and Recreation Department decision, although I do think the Sheriff's Department would have the right to decide if public safety was at issue (which it very much was not at this event) as best I could tell. One elected Oconee County friend ...

I personally think these anti-tax rallies are opportunistic and disingenuous but I give them props for trying and Lee Becker for writing about it. From: Lee Becker < lbbecker@mindspring.com > Date: April 12, 2009 10:16:29 PM EDT To: lbbecker@mindspring.com Subject: Protest in the Park Planned Reply-To: lbbecker@mindspring.com Dear Friends, Less than a month after Oconee County citizens approved a 1 cent on the dollar sales tax without even a hint of opposition, tax opponents are being asked to show up at an anti-tax rally on April 15 at Oconee Veterans Park. The Tax Protest is being organized by Bill Mayberry, who ran unsuccessfully for coroner in the July Republican primary. The protest is to start at 11 a.m. Whether the protestors will praise the county for passing the SPLOST to build the park where the protest is being held or condemn the county for doing that remains to be seen. Here's something to consider about the March 17 vote. The number of registered voters has mor...

Former Oconee County coroner and recent failed candidate for the office again Dr. William Mayberry is hosting a tea party in a tax payer funded venue in Oconee County on tax day. The Republican party seems intent on protesting President Barack Obama's attempts at spending our way out of the recession. I do not like to pay taxes anymore than any one else, but I also want our economy to get better without mortgaging our children's future. Until someone else can offer up a better prescription to what ails our country, I will continue to support our President and wish him success in our economic efforts to rebuild our country's infrastructure.