VA officer election debacle

Dear Editor,

I want to personally thank Rex Rice and the Pickens County Legislative Delegation for showing me what democracy actually looks like.

Walt Carter garnered 51 votes to John Hembree’s 48 votes.

But he didn’t win, according to the wise folks who govern us. Since they can no longer count votes in a “smoke-filled room” and elect whomever they decide, they now say if the election has a low turnout and the vote is close, they get to choose who won.

Isn’t that nice?

How many decisions have been made with ONE vote to make a majority? Maybe Rex Rice and his colleagues should read more American history. They don’t even have to crack a book. Just turn on the TV and see how a recently passed “One Big Beautiful Bill” managed to become law.

But they appear to be a law upon their own and ignore the wishes of the veterans who actually voted.

Did Mr. Rice or any of his colleagues vote? Or have they managed to be “Big Beautiful Citizens” without ever serving their country in uniform?

Did they ever get shot at trying to protect “one man, one vote?”

And Mr. Hembree has demonstrated his absolute lack of integrity by even accepting the position he now holds.

The hypocrisy in this whole situation is mind-boggling.

David Peart

1 Lt. Infantry

Marietta