I am concerned about re-electing Michelle Morgan to be the chairman of the Carroll County Commission. Prior to adding the vote for alcohol on Sunday to the ballot, there was a meeting at the courthouse and there was approximately 90% of the people in that packed building were opposed to putting it on the ballot. Many people got up there and gave impassioned pleas about opposing adding this to the ballot.

We know that Michelle Morgan was one of the ones who wanted the vote. One reason is that it would benefit Morgan Oil’s stores that sell alcohol.  As the pleas were given and speakers gave their stories, Michelle Morgan and Lee Powers looked like they were bored listening.

Morgan and Powers should have known by this out-pouring that their constituents were opposed to this.  But they went on and voted for it anyway.  They also knew that if the city voted on it that it would pass, but the people opposed to it knew that it would go through if the city voted.  If only the county had voted, it probably would have lost.   They knew that if they put it to the people to vote and if it was approved that they would be absolved. 

We need someone in the chairman’s position who grew up in the county and will vote for the betterment of the county and without a personal agenda. Morgan and Powers demonstrated that they would vote for their own interests.

Powers was the deciding vote on this issue. I spoke with him about an hour before the meeting trying to convince him to vote against it and he refused. I also asked Michelle Morgan and she claimed that it benefited 41 families. I do not believe that all 41 families were in her district.

My main point is, Morgan and Powers took Innocence away from our county that we will never regain. And, we are going to end up being just another metro county because of passing laws like this.

The question I have for the citizens of Carroll County, do we want to re-elect someone that we have evidence that they vote for their own interests and not for the will of the people of the county.  The sad thing is, if we just become another metro county, all you have to do is watch the news and see what happens here, traffic, emission stickers, higher taxes, and crime.  My hope is that someone who is not from another county will step forward and run for the commission chair to help us maintain the rural feel that we have in our county. 

If Morgan and Powers do not realize what they have done to our county, it is sad. But if they realize or do not care it is even sadder.

Harry McCord, Jr.

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