(5/2019) As a resident
of Frederick County I have tended over the
years to shy away from endorsing candidates
running for office in Adams County; but this
year I am going to make an exception. And
while I like all three current Commissioners,
as only Randy Phiel and Jim Martin are being
challenged in the primary, I am going to focus
my endorsement on them.
For the past 8 years
as the environment in the offices of Frederick
County government went into the tank, I used
every opportunity given to me to point out to
Frederick County Officials to look north to
Adams County to see how a county government
should be run. To be blunt, in Adams County
your current leadership is the very model in
civility and effectiveness. Jim Martin and
Randy Phiel represent the very best of Adams
County.
Old school classical
Conservative Republicans, they are comfortable
and engaging, in a positive manner, in
meetings outlining how to protect the beauty
and environment that makes Adams County such a
wonderful place to live, while at the same
time, they are willing to make hard choices to
ensure your tax dollars are properly spent. I
challenge anyone to look back over the past 8
years and find even a single dollar wasted.
Can anyone really ask for more from their
elected leadership?
There is an old
saying, you can train people to be managers,
but leaders are born. Randy Phiel and Jim
Martin are natural born leaders and Adams
County has benefited handsomely from their
leadership, and will continue to benefit.
There is another old
saying: "if it isn’t broke .. don’t fix it."
From where I sit, I see one of the most
incredibly effectively and efficiently run
county governments, thanks in no small part to
Randy and Jim. Why mess with success?
To be honest, I envy
Adams County's leadership. They make me wish I
was a resident of Adams County – which I may
just end up doing.
In Jim Martin and
Randy Phiel, Adams County has two of the best,
most honest, intelligent, competent, and moral
centered leaders any county in America could
ever hope to have. Adams County deserves them,
they deserve your vote, and more then anyone
else, they deserve this paper’s endorsement.
So it is with great pleasure that the
Emmitsburg News-Journal formally endorse Jim
Martin and Randy Phiel for another term as
Adams County Commissioners.
On May 21, I encourage
everyone to vote for a continuation of the
ever-brightening future of Adams County, vote
for Randy Phiel and Jim Martin.
Michael Hillman
Editor
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