Pam’s Points: Let’s hear it for citizen ideas on county change and bicycles

Rhonda Thurman

The Skillern, Thurman tag team

Help me, Rhonda.

Help me understand why you and Fred Skillern are apparently joined at the hip and determined to push stubborn and sometimes backward ways on Hamilton County. Help us believe you are not just feeling like a sore loser after Skillern was defeated by Randy Fairbanks for his longtime District 1 County Commission seat?

If you’re not a sore loser then why are you mounting a write-in campaign against Fairbanks in the August election? Did you expect Skillern to retire in a year or two and get you appointed to his County Commission seat?

And should you win in your write-in effort, who might fill your unexpired term on the school board? Might you and some county commissioners appoint Skillern to the school board?

Let’s hope Fairbanks campaigns hard in Soddy-Daisy and Sale Creek. Fairbanks, an accountant, can put real analysis on money questions, like whether hoarding cash to get an already-achieved AAA bond rating is smarter than actually funding school projects before rising costs makes them more expensive.