More States need to do THIS!

[Longitude Zero]

Oh, you are so right…….then things will get interesting.


Which town was/is less efficient than the feds?……….that's a hard thing to achieve…just saying!!

It is a small town NW of OKC called Piedmont. They squandered an entire years budget on a birthday festival and had to fire the entire Fire Department to make up the cost. This is only one example of many going back decades. The same family has held the Mayors office for years and are patently corrupt from end to end.

[AIRret]

It is a small town NW of OKC called Piedmont. They squandered an entire years budget on a birthday festival and had to fire the entire Fire Department to make up the cost. This is only one example of many going back decades. The same family has held the Mayors office for years and are patently corrupt from end to end.

My Lord!!!!!!!! Sounds like a mini Chicago or Detroit (Kwame Kilpatrick)!

[Longitude Zero]

My Lord!!!!!!!! Sounds like a mini Chicago or Detroit (Kwame Kilpatrick)!

Yuppa.

[garyb]

It will be a cold day in...before NY does anything logical with its' gun laws. I applaud any/every pro gun State that fights back against the ridiculous laws we have.

[TheTman]

Kansas passed the same type of law a year or two ago. The Governor received a letter from AG Holder, telling him our state was in violation of this or that, and the Governor replied that is was now State Law, and Holder could ***** all he wanted about it, but nothing was changing.


There are still a lot of smaller towns, with a Boss Hogg, type family that has run things for generations. It seems to occur mainly in the southern states, but can happen anywhere that several family members hold all the key offices, and once in, they are very hard to remove. They manipulate votes and do what it takes to stay in charge, and use the town money as their own personal funds.
There was that movie about the people in one small town that fought over the ballot box, trying to oust one of these families, it was posted here. The Battle of Athens, TN. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9tUQxsrQGw

[Longitude Zero]

There are still a lot of smaller towns, with a Boss Hogg, type family that has run things for generations. It seems to occur mainly in the southern states, but can happen anywhere that several family members hold all the key offices, and once in, they are very hard to remove. They manipulate votes and do what it takes to stay in charge, and use the town money as their own personal funds.

It really is pretty widespread and almost endemic in small towns. Recall the movie, "A Small town in Texas"? You can replace Texas with every other state and only the accent would change but not attitudes.

[downtownv]

There was that movie about the people in one small town that fought over the ballot box, trying to oust one of these families, it was posted here. The Battle of Athens, TN. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9tUQxsrQGw

Saw this before and it was not only true but a great rise of the people to do what they did!