Comments from my Facebook page...

While we're waiting for other blog features to develop I thought I'd plug in a couple comments from visitors to my Facebook page . Naturally, I asked the people making the comments for their permission to post the comment here on my blog. (They said yes)

Here's one...

Brent Alan Erwin · 16 mutual friends

So what makes you qualified if I may ask?? have you ever built a road or a bridge?

gg - I love that people take the time to post or comment about my running for Jasper County Commissioner...makes me think their really interested and not just wanting to make conversation for the sake of conversation...and here's a real/good question that I bet many others are asking the same thing. So...'what makes me qualified' Well, that's hard to say...I could defer to my biographic blog post (soon included here) where you might be able to determine for yourself if I'm indeed 'qualified' to be County Commissioner. And no, I've never built a road or bridge, if that's what you think qualifies or disqualifies me for running for this office. Reminds me of a story where a cancer patient asks his doctor if he's ever had cancer as a 'qualifier' for the doctor treating him, the doctor said no, but I've treated many cancer patients in my life and some are living today. So...maybe my not having built a road or bridge will automatically disqualify me out of hand. Stay tuned folks...read more and learn more about me before you disqualify me. 

Here's another from Brent...

Brent Alan Erwin · 16 mutual friends

Will you be available each day or will you be like the rest and only be available to the "GOOD OL BOY?: NETWORK??

gg - This is a good one and a little testy, I love that Mr. Erwin. #1. 'will I be available each day', well, in my mind, if the county commissioner is not available to the citizens he represents, then what good is he. I plan on listening to the citizens from where their at, in their city, not the Carthage Courthouse office. Seems more user-friendly to me. #2. 'will I only be available to the GOOD OL BOY NETWORK?' Hardly, it seems that 'network' you're talking about shut me out a long time ago. I'm anti-establishment, (an outsider) so...NO, I won't be shutting anyone out. Everyone, I mean everyone, will be heard. Here's another story...well, not a story but a adage about a proclamation. It has always been my way...to let the 'soup simmer', so to speak, before I believe or totally support someone's proclamation. I like to see if the persons actions support what they are saying. So I'm advising the citizenry to read about me, listen to what I say and determine for yourself if what I do matches what I say. 
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