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Tammy Gilland Announces Bid for Oconee County Commission Post 4 Tammy Gilland announced she will once again seek election to the Oconee County Board of Commissioners.  She will run for the Post 4 seat currently occupied by Chuck Horton. “During my 2010 campaign, I had the opportunity to meet and listen to the citizens of Oconee County.  I am still eager to offer my service on the Commission to encourage economic development and to provide Oconee County residents with the quality of services they expect and deserve,” Gilland said. Gilland’s community involvement includes serving on the boards of the Oconee County and Athens-Area Chambers of Commerce; President of the Oconee Rotary Club; President of the Junior League of Athens; President of the Athens-Oconee Junior Woman’s Club; President of the Board for the East Chapter of the American Red Cross; President of the YWCO; Chair of the Oconee County 4-H Program Development Team; and Chair of the Athens Regional Medical C...

But evidently Mr. Maxey heeded unsubstantiated advice from someone giving him some faulty political intelligence to have (contemplated) switched races at least twice since then. Based upon the overwhelmingly enthusiastic and positive feedback received upon floating a trial balloon campaign against Norris Board of Commissioners' slot for Post with the powers-that-be-and-don't-be around here, Maxey then explored the idea of running against Melvin Davis for Board of Commissioners chair. By then Sarah Bell had been lining up her supporters and much of the non-aligned political players in the county, thus negating any perceived or imagined groundswell of support for a Maxey candidacy. He has run a very high profile campaign, pouring lots of money in multiple billboards and various sized yard signs. I am voting for and actively supporting Chuck Horton for many more reasons than I can list here. Primarily (and this goes across all campaigns and races) there are those who think gover...

Listening to Mike Maxey on NewsTalk 1340 WGAU AM this morning was an interesting and ear-opening experience. He is younger than me, so I salute him for running for Post Four on the Board of Commissioners against Chuck Horton. He has lived here his whole life, so I am a carpetbagger compared to him (I've been here since the early 1990s). To listen to him though on Tim Bryant's show, we are an anti-business bunch on the BOC and have a bloated budget needing to be sliced in Oconee County. Look folks, we have a volunteer fire department. That is going to need to change sometime in the next couple of decades. We have more people coming to his county every day, so we need to have an equal increase in government infrastructure and planning. I think Mr. Maxey's experience on the planning commission proves he is part of the problem, not part of the solution. We have three thousand empty lots in various subdivisions and developments right now, so I think we need to let the infrastruc...