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"Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." - Thomas Jefferson

 "Serving Destin, Ft. Walton Beach, Crestview, Eglin AFB, Hurlburt Field and all points in-between..."
 
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- Gaylan's Corner! - Opinions, comments and Notes from the field - by Gaylan King

- BED TAX/CONFERENCE CENTER HISTORY OF EVENTS - The Freedom Committee's goal is to repeal county ordinance 89-23 that has spawned the Tourist Development Counsel (TDC) and bed tax (increase), and is also designed to fund the proposed conference center.  The TDC was created with this ordinance and therefore, by law, will be disbanded with OR 89-23's repeal. In order to do this, a referendum must come to a vote before the people.

There are four major areas on this website that are designed to do four things:

1. Present the FACTS supporting our case that the Conference Center will be a financial burden to the taxpayers of Okaloosa County.

2. Provide a HISTORY of the entire Bed Tax increase/Conference Center and give an historical scope to the issue.

3. To present OUR POINT OF VIEW as an opponent of the Bed Tax Increase/Conference Center and it's supporters.

4. To provide a FORUM in which others can share their point of view.

Gaylan KingI urge our readers to read another  letter...

...this time from Ms. Krug, on the Freedom Forum.  Does any citizen out there feel so "vulnerable" that they can't reach an intelligent decision about this issue?

This website is offered as a public forum; we publish the Opposition's letters and comments.  We've tried to offer both opinion and fact to support our positions. If you'll read back over their comments, you'll find a lot of name calling and unfounded accusations, and very few facts pertinent to the current discussion. A history of the TDC does not answer several very pertinent questions about their unchecked operation.

We don't have to present this rude rhetoric to our readers, but it is so indicative of their mindset that I welcome their arrival and presentation to you.

There's a lot going on in the County and in Destin; read tomorrow's paper. One of the new condos in Destin is apparently demanding a 15' corridor along the shoreline as our only access along the beach, and you can't stop or fish or picnic or sunbathe. Destin is dead if that mean-spirited arrogance, led by newcomers, continues.

It seems that we get ever farther away from being fairly represented as citizens.  I believe that money influences many of these decisions-and power the rest of them,  only because there's no other rational answer to what's going on in this County.

That's all the more reason to take a stand and show that we're fed up with the selling of Okaloosa County.  An unwanted Conference Center and an out-of-control TDC are two good places to start the cleanup.

Cheers!
Gaylan

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