When you are a public servant it is what you do. You are there to serve the people and do your duty. Serve with honor or not at all.

I have an idea you are in Georgia. I have a good friend with a band in Atlanta called the George Price trio. He has been playing since we were in junior high. I know what you mean about trees-- I clean up windfalls on my road every winter. I'm on the edge of town and we get a lot of wildlife around sometimes--Turkeys deer elk even bears. nice chatting with you.

Yeh heck man what's it like where you live? is there hunting- fishing- music -theater? I would bet you are a real good guy with friendly neighbors.. I'm glad it is summer. time to light the BBQ --break out the beers and have a ball.

Some of you are aware that I am an elected public official and this is the story of my struggle. I had just sold a property that I had owned and had to move quick. I made a phone call and bought another place over the phone sight unseen. The streets in the are were in horrible shape and I kept wondering when the road grader would come. The seller conveniently failed to tell me that the grader would never come unless I paid for it. It seemed I had bought into a property where it was deeded a private road -public access. Nothing on Gods' green earth was going to change that and my county absolutely would not do a stitch of maintenance on our little road system. That winter the roads mudded out so bad that the road disappeared and peoples yards became the new road--not exaggerating. The school busses refused to run and police and fire left us on our own. There are 73 tax lots and 200 residents out here. We tried going door to door for donations and got a whopping $35 that is it. A couple of well off retirees paid to get some rock delivered and the road graded. By spring the road was going away again so I took a week off and hauled rock all day long every day and put it back in shape by hand. I had a resident approach me with the idea of forming a road district to ensure we had money to do maintenance. A few of us pooled our money and got an attorney and then we went through several meetings with the county commissioners before we could call a special e******n to v**e our road district into being. Well the opposition to paying the 2.19 per thousand of taxable value caused us to lose by one v**e. We had no choice to maintain the road ourselves for next 2 years till we could get it on the b****t again. This time we won by a single v**e. Well the opposition started a recall petition the very first year that we were going to get tax money to bring in rock and a road grader. We beat the recall 2 to 1 with 66% v**er turnout. Once the people saw they were getting something they did not want to give it up. That recall cost us $1150 out of our budget of just over $9000. That meant for anther year we had to put our own money into the road again. For 9 years the opposition threw every stumbling block they could in front of us and hatred took over the minds of some on the district board. Now comes the moral issue---It is my belief that the purpose of government agencies is to provide services to tax payers and should not be withheld due to prejudice or animosity from the governing body. The individual who had given us so much pain became in dire straits with a flooding issue and needed our help. The solution would be a drainage ditch and a few culverts however the State did not require us to do so and the two other members of the board refused to help. Now since we were the taxing entity we also issue the permission to do work on the road frontage and the county road department oversees the work done. The property owner took out a permit then started digging a 3 foot deep ditch along the very edge of the road. Before I knew it the county was called in and the work stopped and the damaged road was left that way. Now became a 2 year battle for me to get this job done. This past winter 5 inches of rain fell in one night and a major 24" culvert going under the road plugged and flooded over the road and flooded 3 homes. I was president so I called an emergency session and we decided to put in the ditches and culverts needed to prevent this situation from happening again. I rented an excavator and did the work myself. This made the former president very angry and he turned me in to the special districts of Oregon and tried to get me in major trouble. I had done every thing right and the special districts took my side. The project is done now and the opposition has backed off.. I have 2 years to go on this term and I am trough. It has been an uphill battle but worth the years of putting up with opposition from within and without. Our road system is in very good shape now and I am glad I held to my beliefs.

It is if none of you listened to the testimony that there was Russian interference and that they continue to interfere. Further Trump and some of his staff were aware of it.

What ever this conversation is pointless.

Oh yes trump is always a gentleman

Are you saying she'll sober up? Time is all it will take.

The speaker of the house still is holding her guns so I think not.

I see so trump can act as he pleases because there are others who do . ---justification.

T***hful reporting in this day and age is the object of scorn among the radicalized and indoctrinated. Opinion pieces are just that and discernable from facts. It seem that fact checkers are not free from being labeled as f**e--It all depends on who is disagreeing with the answer they are given.

This is just about the way I knew it would go. Mueller testifys and people who did not want to believe any t***h from the start set about to discredit him.

Gas lighting the people and making them question their own better judgment has taken its' toll. I never heard of "F**e News" till trump came along and I doubt anybody else did either.

No!! not my BBQed chicken and ribs