By Emerson Drake
5/6/10
Will the County Board of Supervisors change the election rules like they were requested to?
They've been asked to consider raising the required reporting point to $99.99 and to limit the amount to $2,000.00 someone can donate to a campaign before the candidate would be required to recuse themselves when business is brought before the BoS that effects the donor.
Let people donate large sums of money but don't allow the office holder to discuss or vote for their project.
Remember Jeff Grover accepted $28,500.00 from Gerry Kamillos and then voted in favor of his "expanded" West Park project.
No one else was allowed to bid on the expanded project but with our current laws, which the BoS can change it's legal.
Also it's time to make accepting campaign contributions from vendors who basically work for you in governmant.Do we really want it to be acceptable for politicians to hold their hands out to vendors bidding contracts?
We have Adam Christianson accepting $5,800.00 in campaign contributions from Correct Care Solutions because in their words "why did we donate money to an out of state sheriff, because we got the contract."
Isn't it time for government to be accountable to all of the people and not just special interests?
I think so.
How about you?
