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Comment by R Atwood on December 6, 2009 at 10:05am

One for sure will be coming from the Niceville-Valparaiso Tea Party. We will be asking for more people to attend at our meeting on Monday night.

Comment by Henry Kelley on December 6, 2009 at 9:19am

Please join the FWB Tea Party and me in attending the Okaloosa County Commission Meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 8:30 AM at the Courthouse in Crestview.

We throw a lot of darts towards Washington DC but here we have a local government spending $60 million on a new building during an economic crisis, when the existing building simply needs to be brought up to American with Disability standards.

60 million divided by the 170,000 residents of Okaloosa County equals $352 per person. However since the number of taxpayers is substantially less than that, you can easily make an argument this will cost each taxpayer more than $500.

Now, add in rising gas, food, and a new Gulf Power rate increase.

And our local leadership rushed right in to grab $300 million in Federal Stimulus dollars to fund the new SR85 exchange. Someone, meaning us the taxpayer, has to pay for this. Further, our state leaders, and by this I mean Republicans, are also working this week to use those same stimulus dollars for a new Rail project, which the bloggybayou.com has covered quite well.

Our FWB Tea Party has a few core principles, and in this case holding our elected officials accountable and reducing wasteful spending come immediately to mind.

Please join me at this meeting. It is easy to express anger at DC - we have to be loud and focus on local issues as well as those nationally.