In Georgia's mountains, a school bus driver is out to eliminate the post she is trying to win.
Ales Campbell, a 47-year-old mother of four, is running for "sole commissioner" of rural Walker County, 446 square miles of Appalachian foothills and valleys just south of Chattanooga, Tenn., where Confederate flags, hand-drawn signs for boiled peanuts and men in overalls aren't uncommon sights along winding roads with names like "Straight Gut" and "Hootie Hoo Holler."
It is one of the rarest political jobs in the U.S. One person—without a board or commission—runs the whole county government.
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If you don't like the perception, change it. Or turn it into something good.
From the outside in, we look ridiculous. Bebe is a fossil fighting evolution. That kind of thinking will never be good for those who are on the outside, wanting to do business with us. Something IS going to give.
Can one person rule a growing county fairly and adequately, or do you need wards or something like that with people charged with looking out for the interests of those that put them in charge(the commoners)?
Multiple person commission? I agree with IrishRed below.
I sort of agree with Frankenchrist. Maybe you need to have reps to help make decisions. What is good for Rossville is not necessarily good for LaFayette or Chickamauga and vice versa.
HUMPH! Makes the people of Walker County sound like backwoods hicks. I am quite sure the writer of this article has never been south of the mason dixon line!