Barry Jacobs To Retire As Orange County Comissioner
Orange County is losing an outstanding public servant.
By JD King, Feb 24, 2018, Duke Basketball Report

Most of you know Barry Jacobs as a long-time freelance sportswriter,
author of (the lamentably no longer published) Barry Jacobs Fans
Guide to the ACC and a DBR contributor.

He has had a day job too though: Barry has been an Orange County
Commissioner for years - in fact for decades (two of them) and
served Orange County on the Board of Directors of the Orange Water
and Sewer Authority before that.

What wed like to do here is to comment on not just his public
service, which is often a thankless task. Somebody has to turn
the gears. Someone has to slog through the boring sewage plans.
Someone has to get in there and just get.things.done.

The thing is a lot of people enter public service for private
gain. They find ways to take from the public or accept things
that are given to them or just simply allow power to corrupt them.

This happens in every level of government as we saw this week
in Missouri and Nashville. (Washington is too easy a target).

None of us are exempt from human nature and we can all be
tempted and nothing is more tempting than power.

As Barry begins to step aside though, we can say this: there
has never been the slightest controversy attached to him.
No one has questioned his integrity or his willingness to
listen to any constituent who wanted to speak to him, regardless
of party or conviction. Hes been a model small d democrat,
a citizen who did his best to help the people rule themselves
and hes done it with kindness, humor and wisdom.

A lot of politicians leave office with their corruption
undetected and therefore retain a patina of respectability.
Not many leave with their personal integrity intact.

We firmly believe that Barry has and that Orange County has
benefitted greatly from his service.

We should all be so lucky.

https://www.dukebasketballreport.com...ty-comissioner

David P wrote:
Barry Jacobs To Retire As Orange County Comissioner
Orange County is losing an outstanding public servant.
By JD King, Feb 24, 2018, Duke Basketball Report

Most of you know Barry Jacobs as a long-time freelance sportswriter,
author of (the lamentably no longer published) Barry Jacobs Fans
Guide to the ACC and a DBR contributor.

He has had a day job too though: Barry has been an Orange County
Commissioner for years - in fact for decades (two of them) and
served Orange County on the Board of Directors of the Orange Water
and Sewer Authority before that.

What wed like to do here is to comment on not just his public
service, which is often a thankless task. Somebody has to turn
the gears. Someone has to slog through the boring sewage plans.
Someone has to get in there and just get.things.done.

The thing is a lot of people enter public service for private
gain. They find ways to take from the public or accept things
that are given to them or just simply allow power to corrupt them.

This happens in every level of government as we saw this week
in Missouri and Nashville. (Washington is too easy a target).

None of us are exempt from human nature and we can all be
tempted and nothing is more tempting than power.

As Barry begins to step aside though, we can say this: there
has never been the slightest controversy attached to him.
No one has questioned his integrity or his willingness to
listen to any constituent who wanted to speak to him, regardless
of party or conviction. Hes been a model small d democrat,
a citizen who did his best to help the people rule themselves
and hes done it with kindness, humor and wisdom.

A lot of politicians leave office with their corruption
undetected and therefore retain a patina of respectability.
Not many leave with their personal integrity intact.

We firmly believe that Barry has and that Orange County has
benefitted greatly from his service.

We should all be so lucky.

https://www.dukebasketballreport.com...ty-comissioner


QUOTE:
None of us are exempt from human nature and we can all be
tempted and nothing is more tempting than power.

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QUOTE:
None of us are exempt from human nature and we can all be
tempted and nothing is more tempting than power.

As Baron Acton noted 132 years before that newspaper article...

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Barry Jacobs To Retire As Orange County Comissioner
Orange County is losing an outstanding public servant.
By JD King, Feb 24, 2018, Duke Basketball Report

Most of you know Barry Jacobs as a long-time freelance sportswriter,
author of (the lamentably no longer published) Barry Jacobs' Fan's
Guide to the ACC and a DBR contributor.

He has had a day job too though: Barry has been an Orange County
Commissioner for years - in fact for decades (two of them) and
served Orange County on the Board of Directors of the Orange Water
and Sewer Authority before that.

What we'd like to do here is to comment on not just his public
service, which is often a thankless task. Somebody has to turn
the gears. Someone has to slog through the boring sewage plans.
Someone has to get in there and just get.things.done.

The thing is a lot of people enter public service for private
gain. They find ways to take from the public or accept things
that are given to them or just simply allow power to corrupt them.

This happens in every level of government as we saw this week
in Missouri and Nashville. (Washington is too easy a target).

None of us are exempt from human nature and we can all be
tempted and nothing is more tempting than power.

As Barry begins to step aside though, we can say this: there
has never been the slightest controversy attached to him.
No one has questioned his integrity or his willingness to
listen to any constituent who wanted to speak to him, regardless
of party or conviction. He's been a model small d democrat,
a citizen who did his best to help the people rule themselves
and he's done it with kindness, humor and wisdom.

A lot of politicians leave office with their corruption
undetected and therefore retain a patina of respectability.
Not many leave with their personal integrity intact.

We firmly believe that Barry has and that Orange County has
benefitted greatly from his service.

We should all be so lucky.

https://www.dukebasketballreport.com...ty-comissioner