City School Board about to be run out of town & Hall County School Board Jumps on Board

I have to agree with the Citizens who were at the meeting about the Gainesville School District $8M shortfall.  This kind of fiscal mismanagement is either criminal or criminally negligent.  Everyone needs to go who were in the chain-of-command on this mess

Read The Times story here–>Residents clamor for change in city school leadership

Note that the Hall County School Board is jumping on the tax wagon while everyone is distracted by the City’s mess.  Since they found out the “we lost the money and don’t know where it went” story does not get the sympathy the Democrats would like, they had to have a different story.  They want to raise their budget by 7.9% for next year.  (Inflation was under 3% so that means they are seeking an increase in services of 4.9%.)  To pay for this increase they want to increase the millage rate by 0.79.  My good friend Doug Aiken is right when he says that this money could be raised internally.  Note the timing of this notice of tax increase.  Nath Morris and Craig Herrington both just qualified for re-election as Republicans but had no opposition.  Why didn’t they announce this tax increase BEFORE they qualified?

Read The Times story here–>http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/article/6020/

Real Republicans don’t raise taxes except in an emergency, and even then the tax increase should be temporary to meet the emergency with an automatic “sunset” or repeal provision built in.  Hall County Schools have no emergency.  Their failure to plan for a new school opening is not our problem.  Gas prices are up, so they make a new plan for picking up kids with busses. 

Your Hall County Republican Party is taking steps to “police our ranks” to remove RINOs (Republicans in Name Only) from our midst.  Any elected official in Hall County that votes to raise taxes needs to be prepared to run for re-election as a Democrat if the steps we are taking come to pass next year.  In addition, the Hall County GOP Executive Committee can take whatever action they feel is necessary to police our ranks in the interim period.  Non-partisian offices are a way for Democrats to “hide” in the open and call themselves “conservative” without really being conservative or risking being called a Democrat.  I will post a complete list of all elected officials (and candidates) and their status with the Hall County GOP in the near future.

Clean, open, transparent, ethical, frugal, and limited government is what we want.