It’s been said that it can’t be done: the Ottawa County Board of Commissioners (BOC) can’t be replaced all at once.
And yet, the system allows for it. Elections create the opportunity for turnover, and this has been in place for years. Our founders planned for a government by, for, and of “We the people”. We’re told that Ottawa County cannot survive without the continuity of existing leadership; but is that true?
Ottawa County has the reputation of being a well-oiled machine, in good standing, with multiple department heads, who do an outstanding job. Each department runs fairly independent with Commissioners overseeing the policies, approving budgets, and almost invariably we see them trusting these departments implicitly - including the Ottawa County Department of Public Health. It’s pretty obvious that no matter what happens on August 2, that Ottawa County will continue to run smoothly because the department leaders and their employees. The commissioners job is to provide oversight and vision.
Ottawa Impact (OI) Endorsed Commissioner Candidates have been called “extremist” and “racist” by a few existing commissioners because these candidates signed the OI contract that pays homage to not only the founding principles of this great nation, but also the supposed values of the Republican Platform.
If Commissioners elected as Republicans are criticizing the foundational values of this nation as well as their own platform, one has to ask: Are they actually Republicans?
This begs another question: what does it take, historically, to run as a Republican and receive support from the Republican Party?
Believe it or not, all a candidate has to do is check a box on the affidavit filed for the seat they intend to campaign for. All it takes to be nominated for the Republican Ticket and receive GOP support is to win the primary of the unsuspecting Republican voters.
So, Ottawa Impact takes great pride in acknowledging that their 9 candidates are VETTED!
Vetted to a strict set of principles found in the OI contract:
Pro Life
Pro Freedom
Pro America
Pro Constitution
Pro Small Business
Pro Parental Rights
pro Health Freedom
Pro Child Innocence
Pro Education
Pro Religious Freedom
America is in an upside-down condition when those supporting DEI/CRT/GARE/Race Forward view the above values as extremist.
Truly the most diverse and God-honoring group of servant leaders we’ve seen come through Ottawa County in a long time are….
A Teacher
Two Business Owners
Two accomplished nurses
A salesman
A Public Service worker with a Business Administration degree
Mothers, fathers, husbands, and wives
Faithful congregants
They love God and this nation and each understands that precious liberty is woven into our DNA and must be protected.
They bring thoughtfulness, discernment, and real skills.
But should we be surprised? When it comes to DEI and CRT, the following are on the chopping block:
Free Speech traded for hate speech
Childhood innocence traded for reproductive Justice and Sexualization in the name of tolerance
Free market capitalism and Opportunity (Equality) traded for socialism (Equity)
Naturally formed relationships traded for socially engineered societies
Personal agency and overcoming traded for victimhood
The right to life traded for the right to end innocent life
The right to follow the values and principles of one’s faith is traded for group think in the name of affirmation
The identity of a woman is traded for a caricature of a woman
A female’s earned right to strive for athletic achievements is being traded for a man’s right to pretend to be a woman and his predaciousness
The right to one’s body (as a temple and gift from our Creator) transferred to ownership by the state under the guise of the common good
I could go on and on.
DEI and CRT use an unscientific, unstable idea of Implicit Bias Testing with the purpose of uncovering “hidden bias” in the county and transforming county operations and relationships in a contrived, unbalanced, superficial, and inhumane way. Implicit Bias relies on a newly created and contrived social justice scale called Intersectionality.
Who is at the top of this contrived new social justice system and is most perceived to have power according to this progressive-produced system? Those who have these traits:
White
Cisgender Man
Heterosexual
Able-bodied
Post-Secondary Educated
Note: see the complete Wheel of Power referenced from https://vpfo.ubc.ca/files/2021/03/Intersectionality.png
WHAT is really the focus of their ire and requires dismantling? All the values that made America exceptional including Liberty, Free Market Capitalism, and her Religious Freedoms.
WHY are these value systems targeted? According to progressive social justice ideology, they were made by the power groups listed above and therefore, even school subjects like math and science (See Campus Reform) must be dismantled in favor of a new anti-truth system that is installed by those at the bottom of the Intersectionality scale. No really, it is that absurd. WHY are those systems targeted? Our great nation has always been a target for being the beacon of light it is. It continues to be the land of opportunity and it stands apart from every other nation by long ago claiming that our rights come from our Creator; that government exists to protect those rights; and government rules by the consent of the governed.
In Ottawa County, citizens have the opportunity to vote principled, Constitution-loving candidates into the Commissioner seats. Candidates that actually pledge to uphold conservative values and the Republican Party Platform, and will demand accountability of themselves and the county-funded services that they oversee.
The current commissioners have made decisions to approve and implement DEI, implicit bias training, and GARE, yet they don't seem to really understand what any of these initiatives are. (Video) They definitely don't understand the long-term repercussions of these decisions. (Video #2) You tell me, would you like your county (and by extension your local government) to be run in a manner that replicates the current state of affairs in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco or Washington, DC?
While our current board is filled with enough mixed messages that make the average person’s head spin, Ottawa Impact has been unapologetically unashamed of staking their faith in God and staking their beliefs in the founding principles that made America exceptional.
“American” isn’t a skin color, it’s an ideal rooted in our constitution and God given rights. American ideals lift ALL people.
Ottawa County practically runs itself with the commissioners providing vision and direction. If commissioners believe in America and implement policy that aligns with American ideals imagine what can be achieved. In what direction would you like to see Ottawa County head?