Jun 07
What do you think of the Columbus County Commissioners’ 4-3 vote to reduce their take home pay, but give the difference of the salary reduction to a county department of their choice? Will the decision help the average taxpayer?
June 7th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
this story is such crap. columbus county commissioners are only among the highest paid in the state if you compare just salaries. other counties pay a smaller salary but then they pay their commissioners for every meeting they attend or offer other per diems. this is another story where the paper rather incite its readers than actually give them the facts.
June 7th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
Here the paper goes again. Notice how they put in Commissioner Prevatte’s accusation about McKenzie’s retirement benefits but don’t include McKenzie’s response to Prevatte’s accusation. The News Reporter is a joke. They clearly have politicians they like and they help them while trying to hurt the ones they don’t like.
June 11th, 2007 at 9:19 am
Simple answer to your question: no, it will not help the average taxpayer. You are only talking about a $10,500 and most of that will go for some other use. I really don’t think it is smart for Commissioners to pick and choose between departments as to who receives the added benefit (if you can call a $1,200 to $1,500 additional much of an added benefit). One department will be happy and all the others unhappy with whatever decision is made.
I also agree with the other two bloggers in that The News Reporter is again hypocritical in that they call for Commissioners to cut their salaries and then publish an article critical of their move to do so.
June 11th, 2007 at 11:42 am
we are not brunswick county. have
every dept. w/o exception cut 20%
everyone remembers stories the
great depression. people of that
era for forced to cut back a heck
of a lot more than that.
June 16th, 2007 at 11:47 am
It’s amazing that dorks like Sammie Jacobs, Bill Memory and Amon McKenzie can find someone to write their blog entries for them. I can’t wait to see Edwin Russ wipe the floor with Bill Memory come next election.
June 16th, 2007 at 11:49 am
Perhaps the News Reporter can just quit covering the county altogether. Let them do what they want to. In 10 years, things will be so bad perhaps Brunswick County will adopt us.
June 19th, 2007 at 11:55 am
Hey, anonymous who called three of our commissioners “dorks,” who are you writing for? The Concerned Citizens of Columbus County? Isn’t Edwin their newest candidate to promote? And, will his political career go the way of Harry Foley, Sammy Hinson, Hal Strickland, and everyone else who ran on the CCCC ticket?
June 19th, 2007 at 11:58 am
Good idea! Let The News Reporter stop reporting anything on county government for 30 days (or 60 or 90 for that matter) and see who complains! Bottomline: the majority of the people are not interested in all this or the schools! Just look at the tone of the comments in the blog (at least from those who even bother to engage in public debate).
June 19th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
maybe edwin russ or STEVE SMITH will run and whip memory’s butt!
June 23rd, 2007 at 9:33 am
Columbus County
Born 1808
Died 2006
Rest in Peace Columbus County
June 26th, 2007 at 7:26 am
It’s amazing how the Columbus County Citizens for Bitter Government continue to promote the good ole boys they claim to oppose. Did they really think running candidates like Sammie Hinson, Hal Strickland, and now (maybe) Edwin Russ will move this county forward? Look at the nay-sayers already there like Prevatte and Bullard, what have they done for Columbus County other than set us back 25 years?
June 26th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
they’ve given the news reporter something to write about! i’d like to say there was more but there’s not.
June 26th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
What crap! The commissioners don’t deserve a dime they get.
And I wonder if they are getting money from other sources. That’s what the news reporter needs to look at.
June 27th, 2007 at 8:53 am
No, it is the CCCBG and The News Reporter that is crap. What have they done for our county? Short answer: nothing. Long answer: tear down, belittle, and nitpick on things that in the grand scheme of things do not matter. What has either the CCCBG or the newspaper proposed to move our county forward? Does Sammy Hinson think the list he gave in his letter to the editor would really solve the problem. I don’t think so! It would just set us back another 40 years! Hey folks, this is not the 1960’s!
June 27th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
This county is full of losers who deserve what they get. The population is decreasing. Work is disappearing. Disability is at an all-time high. Two out of three children are are illegitimate. Dads don’t pay child support. Condoms collect dust on the drugstore shelves. Restaurant buffets are the biggest industry. Kids go off to college and never come back. Other counties’ leaders tell their own constituents “Look, it could be worse. We could be Columbus County.”
June 29th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
I’m sure James Prevatte and his puppet masters have all the solutions Columbus County needs to effectively reenter the 1970’s.
June 30th, 2007 at 10:21 am
Frankly, no one on the commission is worth a salt. And the people who have run and lost for commissioner are also ne’re-do-wells. Really, why replace David Dutton with Sammy Hinson - trading one used car salesman for another.
The biggest probelm with county government is that seasoned, professional buisnessmen, farmers, educators will not run.
We need people who know how to grow a county. We need men and women who have had successful businesses, farms, etc. Not a group of wannabes who depend on their commissioner salaries for their incomes.
How many of these commissioners have filed for bankruptcy? How many are truly successful? How many understand the basic tenets of business and government?
There was a time when at least one or two commissioners each decade would rise to the top and become natural leaders for the board.
There was a time when the collective wisdom od the commissioners kept things going.
That has certainly disappeared.
Columbus County is in crisis - it’s being sunk by Medicaid, a growing list of prisoners in its jail, growing crime, the loss of educated population, the failure of the best and brightest to return here, the large rates of bankruptcy, bad checks, alcoholism, infant mortality, illegitimate births, disability claims, stoke, heart attacks, diabetes, diebetic-related amputations, failure of students to graduate, high discipline problems, one of the poorest performing high schools in the state … it goes on and on and on.
It’s amazing we have anything at all here.
Would you want to be the commissioner of all that?
March 16th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
All your comments are interesting but my Daddy always taught me never to take serious anyone who hides behind “anonymous”. If you believe what you say why be ashamed of it.
March 17th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Dummies, it’s CCCBG, not CCCP , that is the Former Soviet Republic. Try finding it on map, that should keep you from writing assanine comments on this blog.
At least CCCBG members are trying to better this county, not tear it down. Kudos to those that encourage Edwin Russ to run against Bill Memory. Mr. Russ is a successful businessman, just like some the type that some of you are wanting to run for office.
One last point. CCCBG has never endorsed anyone for elected office. Why not attend one of their meetings to see what a diverse group with different opinions on various issues make up this group of change agents.