Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

September 28, 2012

The Kootenai, Idaho County Commission is promoting a ballot measure that would supposedly ?streamline? the county government by making it bigger, more expensive, and less accountable.

If approved, the measure would put the county government under the administrative control of an unelected County Manager. The official, along with two or three other appointed officials, would make all of the critical budget and personnel decisions.

The campaign to change the county government comes amid growing grass-roots opposition to the County Commission?s Unified Land Use Code and Comprehensive Plan, which was drafted by an out-of-state consulting group. That plan is correctly perceived by many local land owners as an assault on property rights.  Rather than changing the plan, the county commission is seeking to change the structure of the county government to insulate administrators from public accountability.

The ?Streamline Kootenai County? campaign has hired a high-octane PR firm called ?Strategery.? The architect of that group?s campaign, Jeffrey Ward, is a veteran of the National Endowment for Democracy, a government-funded group that promotes political change abroad by manipulating elections. He makes a good fit for a ruling clique that seeks more power, more money, and no accountability.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.