Local comment: Even in Elberton, a civic dispute

Let me tell you a funny story, if I can do it with these mutts clamped onto my leg. Ow!

When you set out to serve the public as an elected official, you notice some things right away. I ran for public office twice in the government of Whitman County, (won both times, by a mudslide) and I used to spend hours on the phone when I should have been doing other things. Earning a living, raising my kids, sitting by the fire, stuff like that. Once you are perceived as having the power to allocate resources, you become an Important Person, passionately wooed for favors, and never mind that you are swor...