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Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.
Edward Abbey
See here, son, if a deputy sheriff beats a prisoner to death, it’s sweepstakes odds that the county commissioners didn’t order it, didn’t know it, and wouldn’t have permitted it had they known. At worst they shut their eyes to it—afterwards—rather than upset their own applecarts. But assassination has never been an accepted policy in this country.
Robert A. Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land)
People do not come out to vote for a United States Senator. They come out to vote for the Sheriff or the County Commissioner.
Lyndon B. Johnson
When Marxian socialism came to the United States after the 1848 revolutions, it brought along in its baggage this European suspicion of liberal-democratic procedures. Eventually that was dispelled and socialist organizations began participating in electoral politics. But they continued to think of themselves more as the vanguard of a movement than as voices in a democratic chorus. And their preferred political tactics remained the mass demonstration and the strike -- rather than, say, winning elections for county commissioner. The significance of these groups in American politics peaked during the Great Depression and then faded. But their movement ideal retained its grip on the left, and in the 1960s it captured the imagination of liberals as well. There had been emancipatory movements before, against slavery, for women's rights, for workers' protection. They did not question the legitimacy of the American system; they just wanted it to live up to its principles and respect its procedures. And they worked with parties and through institutions to achieve their ends. But as the 1970s flowed into the 1980s, movement politics began to be seen by many liberals as an alternative rather than a supplement to institutional politics, and by some as being more legitimate. That's when what we now call the social justice warrior was born, a social type with quixotic features whose self-image depends on being unstained by compromise and above trafficking in mere interests.
Mark Lilla (The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics)
the Johnson County commissioners, who “talked very feelingly,” he said. “They resent the many slurs cast upon their county by the cattle barons who are trying to drive the smaller stockmen off the range.”10
John W. Davis (Wyoming Range War: The Infamous Invasion of Johnson County)
Hennepin County Commissioner Mark Andrew touts his eco-friendly projects and liberalism and has more campaign donations than any of his opponents in the crowded 35-candidate field for Minneapolis mayor. Maya Rao | 1317 words
Anonymous
His boss had just fired him from his high paying job as Director of Road Kill in Prince William County. After years of shoveling up hundreds of maggot-infested carcasses all over the back roads of Woodbridge and Occoquan, he had been promoted to director when his mentor, Mr. Harris, had passed away. None of his so-called friends had congratulated him on his promotion when the commissioner announced it. They were thoroughly pissed off they didn’t get chosen for the job.
Billy Wells (Scary Stories: A Collection of Horror - Volume 1 (Chamber of Horror Series))
You mean the guy who punched out the County Commissioner last year? I wrote an article on that. They tried to make him mow his lawn, because it violated some county beautification ordinance, or something like that. I asked him why he did it and he just grunted and said. ‘I was obliged to’. I have no idea what he meant by that so I just quoted him.” The old man smiled softly and nodded his head. “That’s right. He was obliged to. In his simple, down-to-earth way of looking at things, you don’t tread on other people’s rights. You don’t tell people what to do with their own property. And if you do, then you need a good whoopin’!” Hank busted out laughing. “I can’t believe a Pulitzer Prize winner just said ‘whoopin’!
Skip Coryell (We Hold These Truths)
If you took a poll, few people in town could tell you who the mayor was, or the police chief, or the city manager. Hardly anybody could tell you the name of a city councilman, or a county commissioner, or the head of the public works department, or the planning department, or the fire department. Those were jobs nobody cared about in Odessa unless a house burned down or a sewer line backed up. But just about everybody could tell you who the coach of Permian High School was, and that rubbed off on her.
H.G. Bissinger (Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream)
sons, daughters, nieces, nephews, and cousins of county commissioners and their spouses. In the
Scott Pratt (In Good Faith (Joe Dillard, #2))
Along with such worthies as Almond L. Bliss, Archimedes Stevenson, Alton F. Pratt, Dusenberry J. Furman, and Deacon Ransom Todd, he was one of several hundred individuals profiled in the 1888 commemorative volume Portrait and Biographical Album of Lenawee County, Mich. That publication extoled him as a “valuable citizen” who had become known throughout the locality as a stock breeder, first of short-horn cattle, later of Shropshire fine-wool sheep and Poland-China hogs. His prize bull, Garfield—a “fine, well-proportioned animal”—was the envy of neighboring farmers.3 In addition to his business pursuits, he served in a number of official capacities, including township drain commissioner. He was a pillar of his church, St. Dominic in the township of Clinton.4
Harold Schechter (Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer)
county commissioner. Sometimes she wondered if she was too cynical, or just too lazy. The sitting President of the United States was a soulless imbecile who hated the outdoors, but in Angie’s view, at this point Teddy Roosevelt himself couldn’t turn the tide if he came back from the dead. All the treasured wilderness that had been sacrificed at the altar of growth was gone for all time. More disappeared every day; nothing ever changed except the speed of destruction, and only because there were fewer pristine pieces to sell off, carve up and pave. Surely
Carl Hiaasen (Squeeze Me (Skink #8))
The next year (1652) Mr. Bradstreet and others were sent commissioners to summon the inhabitants or Kittery to come in and own their subjection to Massachusetts as of right belonging to them. The inhabitants accordingly assembled November 16 and agreed to submit and about forty inhabitants subscribed an instrument of submission. The like was done at Acamenticus the 22nd of the same month, and soon after at Wells, Saco, and Cape Porpoise. To the inhabitants of all these plantations larger privileges were granted than to those of the other parts of Massachusetts government, for they were all freemen upon taking the oath, whereas everywhere else none could be made free unless he was a church member. The province was made a county by the name of Yorkshire. The towns from that time sent their deputies to the general court at Boston.
Thomas Hutchinson (History of Massachusetts: from the first settlement thereof in 1628, until the year 1750. (Volume 1) (Hutchinson's History of Massachusetts))
In Pecos County, the county commissioners banned people of Latin American descent from using community swimming pools reserved for whites. Attorneys for the consul-general of Mexico informed Governor Stevenson that the Pecos ordinance was unlawful because under federal law, a segregation ordinance could not be enforced in a government-owned facility. Segregation ordinances were legal only if they involved private property. Because the swimming pools in question were owned by the county and the ordinance had been passed by county officials, the commissioners were clearly violating federal law. Furthermore,
Martha Menchaca (The Mexican American Experience in Texas: Citizenship, Segregation, and the Struggle for Equality (The Texas Bookshelf))