Did you know there's a crucial School Board runoff election this Tuesday in Walker County? The race between Tina Painter and Travis Middleton may be the only item on your ballot, but the stakes for taxpayers and children's education couldn't be higher.
Tina Painter was endorsed by the Walker County GOP. I think a lot of people know this. I haven't seen a lot of discussion about why. I'm a Georgia Bulldog fan. I'm hoping for a win in the SEC Championship so they might get ranked 4th (or higher) so the can get a bye week and have a better chance of winning the national championship. We root for those that we know, that we have seen work, and think that they will have earned a win if they get one.
Tina has been an active member of the Walker County GOP. She has supported other candidates, represented the GOP at dozens of conventions and events, raised money for high school scholarships, and helped organize banquets supporting veterans, and many more things. By participating in the process of electing others, she has demonstrated a commitment to GOP values like smaller government and government closest to the people is better government than bureaucrats who don't have to answer to the voters. As a conservative, she know that tax dollars are precious and that they should be spent wisely.
She has a background in education, as did the other candidates. However, a question of who to endorse, if there is going to be an endorsement, doesn't look at everything. Four candidates decided to run for office as a Republican. One of them was an adviser to the College Democrats on the UTC campus. All of them had opportunity to come to a Walker County and introduce themselves and ask for our vote. None of the other three bothered to do so. Tina has been active for decades.
If you were going to support a football team, would you support the one who has been playing in your home town for decades, or one of three teams that you have never seen play? We don't know Travis Middleton. I have only met him once. That was on the day of the Jan. 6 election where he was supporting himself. We know that Tina has supported others many times who think like we do. I don't know who Middleton is, let alone what he thinks. Please join me in rooting for Tina for Walker County School Board this Tuesday.
Doug Grammer
Rock Spring, GA