Category: Ottawa Impact
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OI: Not only Extreme but Expensive!
A flyer mailed to residents of Ottawa County summarizes the ongoing issue facing Ottawa County this election season. Not only are Ottawa Impact Commissioners ideologically extreme – they are expensive. Regardless of your religion or politics, no one wants to see their property taxes sky rocket to fund government waste. These increases are not to…
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Do We Still Honor the Rule of Law?
Federal Who, besides his wife, really cares if Donald Trump had an affair with a porn star and a Playboy Playmate of the Month. Who even cares that he clumsily tried to cover it up and claims he never had an affair after arranging to pay her $130,000 by devious means. Stormy who? The speculation…
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Ottawa Impact Extremism Spreads
Traditionally the political parties do not endorse particular candidates before the primaries. In all fairness to candidates, having the party itself endorse a candidate is putting in the fix ahead of what should be a level playing field allowing candidates a chance to persuade the voters. The Ottawa County GOP has thrown fairness out the…
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Ottawa Impact support proposes commissioners 60% pay hike
Had enough yet of Ottawa Impact commissioners? No? How about helping themselves to a 60% pay raise? Would that do it? Compensation Committee Resolution If pushed through, and what isn’t if promoted by the Ottawa Impact commissioners, Ottawa County commissioners will have the highest salaries throughout West Michigan even beating out Kent and Kalamazoo counties.…
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Satanic Temple Invocation & Other Nonsense
Three minutes. Three minutes of tolerance was all it would take to declare their support and compliance to the constitutional ideal of Freedom of Religion. But no, it was too much to ask of the Christian commissioners and their supporters who flooded the room and entryway. Wailing and gnashing of teeth have nothing on the…
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John Gibbs: Buyer’s Remorse
If you are one of the scripture quoting suck-ups who speak at Commissioner meetings, you probably will not appreciate the irony of the latest three-stooges-show we must now put up with instead of competent county government. If this statement sounds harsh, it does not do justice to my complete disgust with the adolescent, inexcusable, and…
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Ottawa County Christian Nationalists
Alternative Facts Kellyanne Conway accidentally spoke truth in a 2017 Meet the Press interview saying there are alternative facts. While ridiculed for the statement it has proven to be true. Christian Nationalists live in an alternate reality where: The reality most citizens live in, none of the above statements are real. For Christian Nationalists at…
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Ottawa Impact – One Year Report Card
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Ottawa County: OI – this is another fine mess you’ve gotten us into!
For an entire year, the extreme Christian Ottawa Impact commissioners have searched for a way to get rid of Adeline Hambley, the director for the Ottawa County health department – and failed. They first tried to fire her without cause, seeing her as an instrument of government tyranny (she is not). But the job comes…
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Ottawa County Commissioner Kyle Terpstra Resigns
Kyle Terpstra resigns from Ottawa County Board of Commissioners. Terpstra said his resignation was the result of “careful consideration and due to significant changes in my personal and professional life”. Terpstra was commissioner for district 6, Georgetown Charter Township. A replacement will be appointed until the next election in 2024. Terpstra was supported by Ottawa…