- Cross-train satellite office tax personnel so that they can help license personnel at surge times (Currently, if you're in a long line to renew your license, the tax clerks can only sit idly by and watch)
- End use of county car for tax collector's personal business
- Make the position her full-time job, not a moonlighting honorific
The second two are modest goals and sound almost accusatory of the present collector. But I just find it refreshing that her campaign is not built on empty, meaningless phrases like "I share your values" and "We need to shake things up." Or, worse yet, phrases that exclude part of her (hoped for) constituency like, "We're all Christians." Case in point:
That ad tells me little about what Cheryl Baswell Guthrie plans to do or what qualifies her for the job. She's a local attorney and unsuccessfully ran for the state legislature in 2006. But I had to look that up. She obviously is independently wealthy or has friends who are because that spot runs every 20 minutes around here. But all it does is speak to the hot button issues that Obama complained that conservative politicians prey on without addressing the economy or any other issue - essentially proving his point!
Of course, she'll win.
