Chairman Do, Supervisors, I heard when you explained to those listening that you were, by the California constitution, a subsection of the state.
However, I’d like you to know, that does not mean that you are simply a pawn of the state!
You are an elected official. You are elected to be able to make difficult decisions, not simply to check boxes and pass on paperwork from the state – any hired hand could do that. The reason that your position as Supervisor is an elected one, is because you are actually required to think through issues on your own and make decisions in keeping with what you feel are the best for our county, and what the people of our county would like you to do. There are plenty of state paper-pushers; they don’t need another one.
In this case, I am talking about you continuing the local state of emergency. Just because the state wants you to, does not mean that you have to do it! Counties are sovereign in themselves, and can make decisions outside of the state that best reflect the situation and circumstances encountered here in our county.
Please take a minute to consider the harm done by the continuation of this local state of emergency. You have heard it at length here at these meetings. Consider whether you can, in good conscience, continue this harmful course of action, simply because you think you have to as a “subsection of the state.” You do NOT have to. You can, as other elected officials have done throughout the state, choose to stand up to tyranny instead of just checking boxes.
In fact, that is your higher calling. Though the county is a subsection of the state, it is also a part of the United States, whose Constitution supersedes California’s constitution. That one outlines some of our God-given freedoms, all of which are being oppressed by your slavish adherence to a tyrant in the form of California’s government. It is your duty to NOT follow his dictates, under the oath you took.
Please think this through. This is unique to the United States government. You are beholden not to a governor, but to we, the people.
Do not continue this local state of emergency.