Just about everyone was surprised. But what was more surprising was the fact that the commission, which had been pleading poverty, wound up at the end of the fiscal year with more than a million dollars. Surprising, but it makes sense. That s the way you play the game. You squirrel some money away in an election year so you can spread the carryover around between the end of the fiscal year and the November General Election.
Every officeholder does it.
Just look at the money Cecil Underwood is spending from his contingency fund in hopes folks will remember it on Election Day and put him back in office. Richards was looking a little too far ahead, however. While she was preparing for the General Election by hiding county funds until a politically expedient time, she lost the primary. Well, the word on the street is that Democrat Bob Bailey is going to win the commissioner s job in November. Furthermore, he ll probably form an alliance with L.D. Egnor, currently the odd man out on the commission.